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Robbins-Gioia Expands Offerings, Builds Enterprise Project Management Office Solution
December 16, 2002, Alexandria, VA - Robbins-Gioia LLC, the leading provider
of project management consulting services, today announced the release of a
new packaged offering to assess and build Enterprise Project Management Offices
(EPMOs) for both government and commercial clients.
The offering scales to address the specific needs of a range of organizations
in varying circumstances. The offering can be employed in three primary ways.
First, for organizations that have built an enterprise project management infrastructure
over time, the most limited version of the offering can be employed. This "assessment"
version of the offering takes stock of the current organization, compares and
benchmarks it against best practices, and develops a plan for filling any gaps
or making modifications. The second version of the offering is ideal for organizations
of 750 employees or fewer, where a single enterprise project management structure
will be sufficient to manage all initiatives. The third and most comprehensive
version of the offering is ideal for large enterprises, where pockets of project
management discipline are in place but have not been linked together into a
true enterprise project management office.
With the explosion of portfolio management tools and processes to help organizations
determine which projects are most likely to yield results, and the increasing
level of maturity in project management in general, there is real need for solid
enterprise-level project management practices. According to Eric Gioia, Robbins-Gioia's
executive vice president, "We're filling a gap in the marketplace that
helps clients consistently manage their initiatives so that the data collected
at the ground level in ongoing projects allows for rapid and precise decision-making
in the boardroom. This is an area that is desperately needed in business today
and our level of experience in this area is simply unrivalled."
The new offering brings together Robbins-Gioia's more than 22 years of core
expertise in project and program management to bridge the gap between on-the-ground
project management practices and new project-oriented decision-making models.
"In many organizations, project management is relegated to a tracking function,"
comments Gioia. "And although project management professionals capture
and analyze real data about the performance of the organization, that data simply
doesn't get used in high-level decisions. What we've attempted to do here is
build an enterprise solution to this problem by creating a repeatable process
that gets enterprise project management institutionalized quickly and effectively
in an organization."
In a related announcement, Robbins-Gioia today released the results of a recent
survey on the impact of an EPMO on the organization it serves. The survey highlighted
the increasing usefulness of increasingly sophisticated project management structures.
Organizations with EPMOs and PMOs reported higher levels of effective project
management and lower levels of ineffective project management, as well as increased
ability to accept and embrace change. In addition, the respondents with a project
management infrastructure were more focused on the key business objectives of
their organization than organizations without an infrastructure. While the majority
of all respondents identified containing costs, managing risk, and gaining investor
confidence as their most critical issues, organizations with an EPMO gave higher
priority to all three areas than their counterparts without EPMOs or PMOs. Thirty
percent of respondents with an EPMO noted that their organizations manage projects
"very well" vs. 14 percent of organizations without. Additionally,
42 percent of respondents with an EPMO have a process in place and follow it
vs. 21 percent of respondents without.
About Robbins-Gioia
Robbins-Gioia has been dedicated to delivering project management consulting
solutions to government agencies and Fortune 500 companies for 20 years. Robbins-Gioia
combines thought leadership, disciplined processes, industry-based knowledge,
and integrated tools to help customers optimize their business processes, accelerate
change, and establish time, cost, and quality improvements to transform their
businesses. For more information, please call Robbins-Gioia, LLC at 800-663-7138,
or visit the web site at www.robbinsgioia.com.
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