Healthcare Organizations Harnessing Enterprise Project Management Offices Manage Their Initiatives Better, Robbins-Gioia Study Finds.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- A growing number of healthcare organizations are adopting enterprise-wide project management offices (EPMO) to help manage their IT initiatives, according to a Robbins-Gioia study released today. As the healthcare industry seeks to improve efficiency to meet the increasing demands of the aging baby boomer generation, some are turning to EPMOs. In fact, 95 percent of respondents cited improving performance and efficiency as the driver that has grown in importance most for the healthcare industry over the last yearComore than the factors of managing risk, gaining stakeholder buy-in, project management, governance and accountability, aligning investments to organizational goals, and complying with new regulations.

The Robbins-Gioia study found that 23 percent of the respondents surveyed had an EPMO five years ago; today nearly twice that number, 45 percent, have an EPMO. Additionally, respondents with an EPMO believe that their projects are more successful than respondents lacking one. Nearly one third of respondents with an EPMO reported that their projects performed "very well." But only 14 percent of respondents managing projects without an EPMO designated their projects as performing "very well." Sixty-one percent of those with EPMOs said that very few (less than a quarter) of their initiatives are redundant.

A Gartner report ("Taking Your PMO to the Next Stage," Gartner EXP Premier Report, March 2006) found that PMOs are helping to ensure that the enterprise invests in the best set of projects and programsCoand achieves the most benefits. "In response to being squeezed by rising healthcare costs, the healthcare industry is increasingly competitive," said Mike Sledge, Robbins-Gioia president and COO. "It is crucial to increase efficiencies in all areas of healthcare, and EPMOs have been shown to add great value across the industry."

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