Spring
2006
This issue leads with records and information management, a necessary process that will
help to fine tune an organization’s core capabilities and incorporate them into the
business practices. Also featured is an article on the ups and downs of enterprise
architecture. The featured case study, “Anniston Production Performance Scorecard
Revolutionizes Anniston Army Depot” describes how the depot used the balanced
scorecard for enhanced decision making,
Summer
2005
In this issue, the lead article is an executive-level implementation guide to enterprise
performance management (EPM). It outlines six steps to successful implementation of EPM.
The featured case study, “Marine Corps Logistics Bases Earn Real Value: Financial Issues
and Competition Prompt Modernization”, describes how EPM was used to make the
organization more accountable.
Spring
2005
Good corporate governance must be implemented at every level of the organization.
Visionary organizations that lead the market develop and implement governance
structures, overarching strategies, and management schemes that sustain and support
the corporate vision. This issue addresses how this method extends past executive
management levels and how its effects impact the entire enterprise. Also, using
lean to transform your enterprise and weave a solid program into your initiatives.
Winter
2004
Optimizing processes is a guaranteed way for organizations to achieve
their objectives faster than they dreamed possible. This issue tells how the
Transportation Security Coordination Center took this solution to heart,
starting with an empty building with no facilities, utilities, or security --
and turning it into a state-of-the-art facility with systems enabling
intelligence gathering on the hundreds of airports, thousands of trucks, and
thousands of miles of rail and pipeline in this country.
Fall
2004
This issue is all about the fastest way to the finish line. The lead story,
"The PMO Makes Everything Go," discusses the value of a
program management office for federal executives—and 10 steps for
making it work. And the white paper, "Six Sigma Pumps Up PM," examines eight
ways the Six Sigma methodology makes PM even more effective.
Summer
2003
Selecting the vendor and then managing the
outsourced effort seems like it should be simple, but it’s deceptively
complicated. Most likely, vendor selection will take too long, cost too much,
and achieve too little. This issue explains how to avoid these problems and how
you and your vendor can make the most of your relationship.
Spring
2003
This issue examines how organizations can prepare for a disaster that could
disrupt their operations--and why the best
business continuity plans are the simplest to understand.
Winter
2002
The world is getting more competitive, whether you’re responsible for
developing state-of-the-art technology or choosing a desktop shipping solution.
This issue shows how program management helps the bottom line.
Summer/Fall
2002
This automotive-focused issue discusses how project management processes
improved GM’s priority setting, resource allocation, and conflict resolution.
It also examines how information management deflects legal issues for
automotive companies.
Spring
2002
Organizations everywhere--commercial and federal--have to do more with less.
Portfolio management is a way to make better-informed decisions about
which projects to cut and how to reappropriate funds and increase earnings per
share.
Winter
2001
Project management mentoring can enable organizations to take control
of their programs, ensuring that they achieve their objectives for scope,
quality, time, cost, and stakeholder satisfaction.
Fall
2001
Performance-based government is here but many agencies aren’t sure how to
proceed. This issue spells out steps to success.
Summer
2001
With the use of
rapid product development methodologies, Robbins-Gioia helped two
companies develop an artificial heart and a breast cancer diagnosis device.
Spring
2001
This
merger-and-aquisition-focused issue talks about a large merger that was
successfully completed in 90 days with the use of program management
methodologies.
Fall
2000
Processes, periodic reviews, and metrics are essential to optimizing the
operational support costs of systems-whether aircraft or computers.
Summer
2000
In the post-Y2K (and 9/11) world, it is critical that organizations protect
their most important resource--knowledge.
Spring
2000
Y2K preparation was the springboard for many organizations to prepare IT
strategic plans
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