1.3. The EPMO as a Competitive Weapon and Its Benefits

Competing globally, increasing market share, reducing costs, and improving profits 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 becoming more widely recognized as an effective approach for improving these areas. Some enterprises even view project management as a key weapon in their arsenals to increase customer satisfaction and outdistance the competition.

To effectively employ project business management, the organization as a whole must ...

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