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Published 24th March 2010
“Organizations today need greater visibility, increased collaboration and flexible frameworks to tackle more work without killing their budgets,” said Greg McGrane, Founder and Co-Chairman of Project Consulting Group (PCG), a recognized expert in project and portfolio management.
The company has noted that many of its clients and prospects impacted by the constrained economic environment are looking to get more value from their existing technology investments. For example, by optimizing the use of Microsoft SharePoint PCG is helping companies do just that by delivering a strategic framework that integrates people, process, technology and culture.
“Organizations we’ve been working with have made huge strides in harnessing the power of their existing SharePoint deployments by using SharePoint as a platform to achieve company goals faster through existing technology investments,” McGrane added. “In fact, there are many organizations that aren’t even aware they have certain capabilities that can be turned on with very minimal effort and resources.”
PCG has been leading successful bid teams to win deployments of SharePoint into both large and small businesses spread across several industry sectors. The company’s team has also helped organizations recover failed projects by drawing on their experience in evaluating how projects can and do go awry. In addition, PCG has put their creativity to work for its clients by engineering a Shared Risk service delivery model which effectively mitigates upfront investment risk to ensure clients get the business outcome they expect with a clearly defined matrix on deliverables.
PCG has taken on sizable organizations that have experienced challenges in effectively leveraging SharePoint on various process improvement initiatives, and like any other IT project, it is important to provide a clearly defined scope, establish an inherent project culture within the business, create stakeholder and management buy-in, institute project management checks and balances, develop core competencies and skills needed to sustain the initiative long term. And, finally once the project has been deployed, establish proper governance along with change and risk identification and management.
“Our PCG team is well aware that a key contributing factor to achieving a successful implementation is having both SharePoint and project management delivery experience,” said Tim Erickson, PCG Partner and National SharePoint Practice Director. “Often IT departments and outside consultancies will assume it is like every other Microsoft infrastructure related project, which could be a costly mistake. Our experience and focus on long-term partnerships and performance related ROI makes a significant bottom-line difference.”
About Project Consulting Group
Project Consulting Group (PCG), based in Minneapolis, is a pioneer in developing low-risk, high-return deployment strategies to help clients reach their goal of improved decision making at the project, program, and portfolio level. Its Project Delivery On-Demand solution is a comprehensive service model that delivers a proven framework to integrate and assimilate people, process, technology and culture, helping organizations achieve faster performance results and a competitive advantage in their ability to execute. PCG is a winner of the 2010 Kinetic Process Innovation Award for Excellence in IT Consulting.
A longstanding partner of The Project Management Institute (PMI), PCG has one of the highest percentages of PMP certified staff of any consultancy in the nation. Our consultants have spoken at conferences around the world, and helped to rewrite the international project management certification standards on behalf of PMI. For more information visit: www.projectconsultinggroup.com
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