As the head of a department or organization, all eyes are on you to deliver results. With the increasing demand on business leaders to justify project investments, it’s critical the leader chooses the right projects and ensures they’re run well. An organization needs to know they are making the best use of internal and vendor resources, so that projects are delivered efficiently without delays or cost overruns. Yet without the right processes and guidelines in place, people are working ad hoc, managing too many projects with varying degrees of success. The reality is that nearly 70 percent of projects fail due to either a lack of project management methodologies or improper implementation of them.
Helping Business Leaders Worldwide
Merriweather is a leading authority on Project Management Offices (PMOs), Merriweather taps practitioners and thought leaders from every continent to design and implement PMOs around the world. A key to our success is the close and vital relationship established between PMO design/implementation and organizational leadership. We engage leader support and involvement early and sustain it throughout PMO implementation.
All around the world, leaders at many of the world’s most successful organizations are enjoying greater business success by embracing Merriweather programs — a proven methodology, coaches, consultants and interim staff to support them through their challenges to achieve more efficient execution of strategy. A Merriweather PMO helps business leaders:
- Explore current landscape and identify key requirements
- Select projects that promise highest value
- Redesign how work is delivered and help implement changes
- Standardize project management processes and tools
- Bring people up to speed and improve management and people capabilities
- Monitor and control project portfolio
3 Ps — One Solution
The “P” in PMO has several meanings, depending on how a company organizes work —as projects, programs and/or portfolios. No matter how it’s define, a Merriweather designed PMO is the single solution to help a business boost efficiency, cut costs and improve project success. More than just project management, our PMO provides the structure and governance to help assure that all projects align with and deliver on organizational goals and initiatives.
At Merriweather, we help business leaders make better investment decisions and execute more efficiently on those decisions. Our Project Management Office — or PMO — is carefully designed to ensure an organization implements the right projects using the right processes and the right tools to succeed. We even calculate the net value that your PMO delivers using our extended ROI model.
Clients have partnered with Merriweather on the following:
- Business case/ROI for a PMO
- Process improvement planning and implementation
- Strategic and fiscal year planning
- PMO design, planning and implementation
- Portfolio governance framework with value-risk based decision models
- Organizational change management
- Project management and PMO training and coaching
- PMO, Portfolio, Program and Project Health Checks
- Dashboard and scorecard design and development
- Benchmarking and best practices
- PMO return on investment analysis and reports
- Executive briefings
To talk to one of our experienced Program Management specialists to find out how Merriweather can ensure project resources are effectively and efficiently being utilized, please contact us.