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Lean, efficient organizations lack the bandwidth to dedicate vital skill sets over a critical project's lifecycle. Gartner's Critical Program Management solutions deliver the know-how, objectivity, foresight, and focus you can't get elsewhere. So your critical IT programs deliver the desired business results - on time and on budget. That's what makes Gartner Critical Program Management the clear choice for program success.
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Why choose Critical Program Management for your initiative? |
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Here are the key reasons:
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Why Critical Program Management is the right decision. |
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The logic is simple. Just like the solution.
Failure is all too common
The statistics are staggering — the results, alarming. Mission-critical projects are at phenomenal risk to consume money and resources without the payback they promised:
- A full 66 percent of large scale projects fail to achieve their stated business objectives, are delivered late, or are substantially over budget.
- It is not unheard of for 30-40 percent of a project's total cost going to reworks.
- IT organizations without stringent risk-assessment and mitigation will be forced to cancel at least ten percent of $200,000+ projects and at least 20 percent of all projects.
- 75 percent of failed $500,000+ projects through 2008 will not be tracked with Project Office support like Gartner's Critical Program Management - 75 percent of successful $500,000+ projects will be.
The advantage of Gartner's third-party, independent focus
Your Gartner Critical Program Management Team has nothing to sell — except meeting your program goals. So we can objectively strategize, plan, recommend, implement, and evaluate the products, procedures, and vendors that are best for your unique situation — without bias. We set up a project office and then focus solely on delivering what's best for you.
It's still your project
While your Gartner team certainly feels pride of ownership in your program, we understand that we don't own it. You do. That makes it easier for us to keep things on schedule, budget, and strategy. We're the quasi-inside, yet totally independent partners who answer to no one but you. But are backed by your authority to keep things moving.
All the skills you need with single source accountability
Gartner's unique position and experience brings you skills and resources you simply can't get anywhere else. With Critical Program Management on your side, you receive:
- Gartner's proprietary insight into present and future technologies.
- The proven and continually improved Gartner Critical Program Management methodologies and best practices that centralize, manage, and reality-test every facet of a project's planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Objective, third-party support to overcome internal political and change-adversity obstacles.
- A continually-focused, goal-driven advocate for the program's success.
You can't afford not to
Gartner Critical Program Management costs between one and five percent of a project's total budget. Given the typical costs of reworks, missed deadlines, budget overruns, and lost business opportunities, Gartner Critical Program Management can easily save you millions. Not a bad justification for using proven procedures from an industry leader.
Keep objectives, costs, timelines, and results in focus
Your critical programs no longer need to become critical problems. Learn more about Gartner Critical Program Management and you'll see how we do things better. E-mail us at consultinginfo@gartner.com for the clearly better path to critical program success.
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE (PMO) — The results are clear
A new law required a state's CIO to conduct a uniform, enterprise-wide security assessment across all 26 state agencies. Gartner Consulting created a Project Management Office to establish the framework, create the tools, and ensure the assessments were conducted consistently enterprise-wide.
The Results:
Gartner procedures, IT understanding, and Quality Assurance delivered a complete assessment, with practical recommendations for implementing uniform security standards enterprise wide. The on-time, under-budget delivery also included supervising the diverse procedural and technology changes recommended in the assessment.
PROGRAM ASSESSMENT — The results are clear
A worldwide technology firm saw the value of an objective Gartner assessment of its global ERP initiative. Engaging users, sponsors, executives and customers worldwide, Gartner confirmed program objectives, challenges and requirements.
The Results:
Comparing the research to the reality, Gartner made recommendations for improvement. Our objective analysis identified inefficiencies and questionable billing from the systems integrator, opportunities to improve communications among all constituencies, and the need for change management to keep the program on track to meet its intended business objectives.
PROGRAM OVERSIGHT — The results are clear
A large organization needed to clean up its procurement processes across 50+ individual departments, each with its own procedures and requirements. Gartner oversaw the strategy creation and workflow implementation to purchase everything from pens and paper towels to landscaping and temporary personnel.
The Results:
From documenting functional requirements to helping evaluate and choose the ideal systems integrator, Gartner supervised vital program elements to meet the stated business objectives. As Gartner continues to lend its expertise, continually supervising adherence to procedures over a multi-year contract, the client expects to reduce procurement cycle times by 15 percent.
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Get the attention you need. And deserve. |
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Gartner consultants are ready to answer your questions and get you on track to clearer results. Contact us at consultinginfo@gartner.com to learn more about the ideal Gartner Consulting Critical Program Management solutions for your unique challenges.
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