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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

CIO

Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization.

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7 ways to foster IT innovation

CIO

As an IT leader, being able to foster innovation not only benefits the IT itself, with greater efficiency, effectiveness and value, but the organization it serves and you personally, as it illustrates your ability to be an internal agent of change, a true business partner, and an asset at the strategy table. Build an innovation pipeline.

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Innovative integration drives automotive group to SAP awards

CIO

CGA also has its own SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for day-to-day activities, including accounting and project management. For the group’s success in improving its operation and the benefits it offers customers, as well as for the scale of its innovation, China Grand Automotive Services received SAP recognition.

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Day 1 Recap: Gartner Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit

Xebia

All 5,000 of Gartner’s Application Innovation and Business Solutions Summit attendees agree on one thing: AI is so central to the future success of business that it is useless to continue debating if and when. The AI innovation dance floor is made up of three parts: AI infrastructure and platforms, AI applications, and business solutions.

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Your Idea Factory – Quality Innovation from Quantity

Perficient

Quality innovation is not for the weak at heart! Innovation myths may have you thinking it is for the lucky or the extremely talented – that’s not true. Pauling’s career overlapped those of Picasso and Edison and included the same concept that working hard generates quality innovation. Your first ideas are the easy connections.

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Moving Beyond Stage-Gate Project Management

Harvard Business Review

This article describes how German automaker BMW and European airline Air France have developed new approaches to managing large projects aimed at creating fundamentally new products, ideas or that profoundly alter human behaviors.

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4 Crucial Benefits of Agile Project Management for Healthcare Providers and Payers

Perficient

Benefits of Agile project management in healthcare Agile is one of the most popular approaches to project management , yet healthcare teams sometimes still struggle to fully adopt the methods and reap its rewards. Read my blog “ 10 Ways Agile Supports Product-Driven Healthcare ” to learn more.