To succeed with a corporate transformation, the key may be to coordinate all the changes through a Project Management Office, PMO

When an organization is to initiate several transformation projects as its often happens in larger organizations one often forgets to coordinate all change projects. It often occurs internal conflicts over resources within the organization, this is something a Project Management Office, PMO can prevent. It is a significantly better way for senior management to follow up all projects in the organization when all project is consolidated and coordinated in a PMO office.

What is a Project Management Office, PMO?

A PMO is a centralized coordinating office in an organization (or project) is a hub within project. A PMO has the mandate to identify and address transformation issues to support and facilitate the achievement of organizational goals.

What are the benefits of having a PMO?

Investing in a Project Management Office (PMO) as a coordinating unit for project management for common work processes of planning and reporting will contribute to a common framework that can be used to evaluate, justify, define, plan, follow-up and implement projects. A PMO office can also easily contribute to conflict resolution caused by limited resources and other constraints.

Dr. Hole has led several successful transformations through PMO offices in major Norwegian companies such as the National School Fruit, Orkla Media Distribution, Lindorff Accounting and Sønnico to mention a few. A PMO can help your organization to create effective control and supervision of your projects and integrate all the overall business goals.

Research shows that the failure rate of corporate transformation efforts is on stunning 70% where the transformation project falls short of their goals

If conventional transformations are difficult, the tech enabled one, which use technology in innovative, comprehensive ways to improve business results, are even more complex and challenging. Tech enabled transformations often bring unfamiliar technologies and processes into the working lives of almost everyone at a company. Leaders must manage this upheaval while maintaining focus on shared goals.

It is typical that the workforce lacks the critical business process understanding and the technology skills that can help smooth and sustain a tech-enabled transformation. Even when technologies are in place, too many of companies’ processes remain stuck in the pre-transformation phase, to say nothing of the disconnect that remains between the business process understanding and IT. It helps very little to take old processes to put into new technology. The work processes must be redesigned and changed from scratch. To succeed with a tech enabled transformation also requires a shift in workforce capabilities and ways of working. Digitalization is not about technology itself, but about changing work processes and work patterns.

Most successful tech enabled transformations benefit from the supervision of an effective transformation office (PMO). Its function is as a commando central that prioritizes the many various workstreams, processes, and initiatives that make up a comprehensive transformation. The PMO office can also arbitrate attainable technology goals and actively shape solutions. Combined with a focus on measurable progress, an effective transformation office can ensure that a tech-enabled transformation progresses at a pace that allows the organization to adapt to new tools and processes while reaching ambitious performance goals. Taking advantage of a transformation office’s resources should be natural for organizations, given that its potential contributions are significant, although its mandate need to be widely to succeed.

 Why tech enabled transformations flounder

The challenges that hold back tech enabled transformations are distinct from those of conventional transformations. A lack of technical expertise and change management, so called soft organizational capabilities can exacerbate inadequate coordination with IT and make tech-enabled transformations even more fraught. Companies need both technical and change management skills that allow them to work in new, more flexible ways. But embarking on a tech enabled transformation without enough technical experts, and user experience designers will most likely put the entire transformation at risk.

To create a successful and efficient transformation office means setting it up with the right people and then letting it coordinate ALL the corporate changes and operate in a way that best supports the corporate transformation.

Setting up the PMO

The PMO can only be effective if it’s staffed with the right people and with a clear mandate to lead and lead the corporate transformation. Besides being respected and credible, the leader of the transformation office should be a change expert with business process and technically understanding. Without a transformation office in place to advocate for the optimal change management approaches to technical problems, organizations might find themselves in need of rework.

If a company does not have the right subject-matter experts on staff, one need to bringing outside experts into the team. External change management experts often bring experiences with diverse solutions, from other tech enabled transformations. This allows the outside change management experts to challenge the thinking of internal stakeholders for the benefit of the transformation and the company.

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