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Tom Tobin   (April 20, 2009)





The battle for resources is hitting critical mass in today’s economy. Organizations must be highly selective of what projects they undertake, extremely efficient in their execution, and able to provide a demonstrable ROI at all steps in the process. It can’t be done without enterprise project management, which can’t be successfully implemented without careful attention to cultural adoption.

Enterprise Project Management is a major organizational undertaking. While there are some outstanding software solutions available, and project management is a mature discipline, far too many projects are still failing, late or over budget. Companies know they need enterprise solutions, but often are at a loss as to how to make the necessary adjustments internally to enable them to derive the benefits that compelled them to pursue EPM in the first place.
 
Once a need has been identified for undertaking EPM, and a solution is selected and implemented, it is often ignored after a while as people go back to doing things the old familiar ways. This is in direct opposition with the deciding factors that drove the decisions to acquire an EPM solution.
 
The steps necessary to ensure successful adoption are fairly simple to understand, and have been well documented over time. Yet many organizations do not do this successfully.



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