Traditionally, organizations have measured their project management capabilities and capacity in terms of its ability to complete projects within budget and on-time. Research about project management competencies suggest that over half of the factors impacting a project are beyond the project manager’s control. These factors are found within the organization’s infrastructure, culture and project management processes. Successful project-driven organizations must develop specific cultural and structural characteristics. Infotech’s Organizational Assessment evaluates your organization in four critical success areas: Integration, Accountability, Risk and Reporting. The results of the assessment will identify organizational disconnects, processes that should be improved and how to support and empower project managers more effectively.
Why should your company conduct an Organizational Assessment? Even the best training programs can fail if the new learning cannot be applied in the “real world” environment of the organization. That is why it is critical to create a company culture that can support the project management processes. Has your company experienced any of these situations?- Staff return from training with an attitude of “great info but we can’t apply it here”
- Cross-functional projects experience missed hand-offs repeatedly
- Projects experience “surprises” on a regular basis and work in a reactive mode often
- Every project and every project manager reports status differently
- Teams are constraint-driven instead of solution-oriented
