The project office: an evolutionary implementation plan

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The project office functions in 3 different roles in any organization, namely, in a staff role, in an enterprise role and in a line role. A project office needs to assume the highest level of accountability to become an independently functioning organizational unit. In a staff role, the project office assumes the role of an internal consultant by being an advisor or mentor. The project office becomes the administrator, monitor and controller in the enterprise role by collecting pertinent information. In the line role, the project office assumes the functions of the first roles while also handling and managing the actual project.

Organizational Methods NEC, Analysis

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The age of project mentoring

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The 1990s organizational structure is undergoing transformations, which have affected management approaches and the roles of middle managers, such as project managers (PM). Aside from traditional competencies such as the ability to generate work flow analysis, project managers are now expected to have people-oriented skills, the most important of which is mentoring. With such skills, project managers would be able to coordinate the organization's human resources, made up of the project sponsor, the client and the project team members, so that the goal is achieved.

Management Dynamics NEC, Management Functions NEC, Evaluation, Business enterprises, Career development, Management techniques, Leadership, Executive ability

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Use project management to 'sell' your company's products and services

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Project management can be used as the differentiating and selling factor of the products and services provided by a company. Sales and marketing personnel should learn to integrate the customer-oriented project management benefits during their sales presentation, bid proposal and engagement. This way, customers will realize that the company is serious in giving them complete customer satisfaction from the time they bought the service or product till the time they use it.

Marketing Management, Methods, Usage, Client development

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