The Better Project Delivery Blog
Somewhere in your organization, someone just got a mandate: "Go build us a PMO."
No charter. No org chart precedent. Just a directive, a blank slate, and an expectation that this new function will so...
It's a familiar moment for a lot of executive teams: the annual strategy is set, the deck looks great, everyone nods in the room — and twelve months later, someone asks what happened to half of it. No...
You've built the reports. You've standardized the processes. You've implemented governance frameworks that should make any executive feel confident about project delivery. Yet when budget discussions ...
There has never been a week quite like it in the history of the World Cup. A refereeing decision — the kind that normally fuels a few days of sports-radio outrage and nothing more — became an internat...
Over the past four articles I have walked you through an argument. Your strategy is not the problem; the value leaks out through the Strategy-Execution Gap, and research puts the leak at 37 percent.
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 If you're leading a PMO or sitting on an Executive Steering Committee, you already know how this story starts. A strategic initiative — the kind with real budget, real visibility, and real consequenc...
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In the first article of this series I said something in passing that deserves its own article. The PMO, the Transformation Office, the Strategy Realization Office: different names, same construct, ...
So far in this series I have made two claims. First, your strategy is not the problem; the 37 percent of value most companies lose leaks out through the Strategy-Execution Gap. Second, the SEG is spec...
In the first article of this series I made a claim. Your strategy is not the problem. The problem is the gap between the strategy you approved and the work your organization actually does. That gap ha...
Organizations today are being asked to do more with less. HR and talent acquisition teams are no exception.
Across industries, we’re hearing the same concern from HR leaders:
“We still have critical...
You left the offsite aligned and energized. A week later everyone was back to defending their turf.Â
Every organization I know has lived some version of that sentence. The plan was good. The room agr...
 How The PMO Squad helped a semiconductor company improve project delivery — and position itself for a successful acquisition.Â
When most companies think about preparing for acquisition, they focus o...
