Building Project Management Centers of Excellence

The Driving Forces

Competing globally, increasing market share, reducing costs, and improving profits—all in the pursuit of producing better products and services faster through the use of high technology solutions— are just a few of the reasons why most organizations seek better ways to improve time-to-market, cost-to-market, and quality-to-market. The effective use of project management techniques is a critical element for achieving improvements in these areas. Some firms even view project management as a key weapon in their arsenal to increase customer satisfaction and beat the competition. Dr. Harold Kerzner, Executive Director for Project Management at the International Institute for Learning, states the case well in this excerpt from the ...