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Strategic PMO Solutions: Delivering Project Success for Maximum Impact
When you come across the term “project management,” what comes to mind? If we were to pose this question to a random selection of people, we’d probably get quite a range of answers back. That’s because, in theory and in practice, project management encompasses many strategies, styles, and concepts. On top of that, there are…
Back to Score Keeping…
In the first blog of this two-part series, we explored the concept of Balanced Scorecards, and why they are a valuable tool for measuring and managing performance. In this blog, we share a bit of our process for developing balanced scorecards. FMP’s team of measurement experts knows how to identify performance criteria that are relevant…
Are You Keeping Score?
FMP understands well that measurement is the key to identifying real-time and projected performance impacts for organizations. In the early 1990s, Harvard Business School professors, Robert Kaplan and David Norton, introduced us to the concept of Balanced Scorecards as a strategic tool for measuring and managing performance. Their intention was to expand upon what defines…
The Efficiency Edge: Implementing Business Process Improvement for Maximum Impact
In the first two blogs of our Efficiency Edge series, I highlighted the benefits that BPI can offer for work processes and organizational performance, and the key approaches for implementing it. In the third and final blog of the series, I explore best practices and considerations when implementing new or updated processes. Any organizational change…
The Efficiency Edge: Powerful Methods for Process Improvement
In the first blog of our Efficiency Edge series, “Achieving Optimization through Smart Processes,” I talked about the positive impact that Business Process Improvement (BPI) can have on work processes and organizational performance. In this blog, I will highlight key approaches for implementing BPI. The approach to process improvement should acknowledge the important connections among…
The Efficiency Edge: Achieving Optimization Through Smart Processes
Efficiency continues to be hot topic of discussion across organizations today. Organizations are focusing on how to do more with fewer resources while leveraging automation to deliver higher quality products and services faster. Business Process Improvement (BPI) has been an effective tool to support organizational optimization since the early 1990s.[i] At its core, BPI is…
Building our Capabilities
For as long as I’ve been at FMP (and it is too long to comfortably share), we’ve invested in and focused on growing and enhancing our services and capabilities. Not only is this a reflection of the learning organization we are, where our employees are life-long learners and actively seek out development opportunities, but we…
FMP Spotlight: Developmental Rotations
Introduction A developmental rotation is a structured program allowing employees to temporarily transfer to different roles, workstreams, or departments within an organization. I decided to participate in a developmental rotation with FMP’s business development team, and it has quite literally changed the trajectory of my career (keep reading to learn how). I observed several near-immediate…
FMP Core Capability: Supporting Strategic Communications for Modern Organizations
Introduction Organizations have more ways to communicate with their employees and audiences than ever, but this hasn’t automatically resulted in deeper connections and greater influence. Instead, it has become more challenging to vie for, capture, and keep their attention. And further, capturing attention is only part of the objective; what organizations really want is to…
Spotlighting Accessibility in Action: Inclusive Design in Tech
What do Microsoft, Sony, and Apple have in common? Yes, they are all big tech companies listed on the S&P 500, but in the context of this blog, the common factor is they are leaders in applying inclusive design methods to develop products that are widely accessible. In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, we’re…