OP2's project management team are among the industry's pre-eminent practitioners and thought-leaders. We are dedicated to optimizing your business performance through our project management initiatives. Our project management practice enables organizations to improve business performance, efficiency, and profitability through organizational project management maturity assessments, strategic project office deployment and enhancement, corporate training, and project portfolio management.

Our program and project management work ranges from construction and engineering projects, information technology, and change management, to projects involving organizational development, and training. OP2's proprietary methodology and comprehensive approach integrates critical business strategies with project management practices, enabling sound management decision-making and project success.

Through our project management expertise, OP2 will help your organization optimize business performance to meet your strategic goals.

Project Management Maturity Assessments

Using our highly acclaimed project management maturity model as the infrastructure, OP2 begins assessing the capabilities of your project management practices, as well as the knowledge and skill levels of your project team members. OP2 provides a framework for linking individual and organizational improvement plans to targeted improvement areas. As a result, your organization will become capable of managing practices at the higher end of the maturity model - correlating to a better balance between cost, schedule, scope, and ultimately improve profits for your organization.

Our project management maturity model assessment provides the framework and guidance your organization needs to:

• Assess the current level of organizational maturity
• Develop an effective implementation plan and roadmap
• Launch improvement plan initiatives
• Measure and quantify maturity advancement
• Improve execution of projects

Strategic Project Office

The strategic project office serves as the critical link between executive goals and the work of the organization. A strategic project office allows the organization to manage its collection of projects as one or more interrelated portfolios, and serves as the source for all project activity and data.

Organizations that implement a strategic project office can expect the following benefits as a result of their efforts:

• Increased profitability
• Optimized portfolio of projects
• Reduced project costs
• Improved quality
• Reduced lead time to market
• Decreased scope changes
• Minimized project risk
• Quickened response to market opportunities
• Improved alignment of projects to corporate strategies
• Enhanced integration and resource management
• Improved oversight of project activities enterprise-wide
• Centralized expertise and consolidated activities
• Improved communication of organizational goals and objectives
• Elevated image of professionalism and reliability

Corporate Training

We work closely with clients to develop learning solutions that are specifically designed to meet precise business objectives and cultural needs. Our training courses are scheduled and held at our client's organization (onsite), or at specific venues requested by our client. In most cases, such courses are tailored or custom-developed from scratch to accurately address specific client objectives.

We provide training when, where and how our clients want it.

• Complete confidentiality
• Course content and case studies can be tailored to your industry or your organization
• Convenient scheduling
• Course level can be scaled up or down to fit the exact needs of your organization
• Use of pre-assessment tools (questionnaires, tests, conference calls) to match precisely the course content with the needs of your group
• Personalized customer service: one of our project management professionals will work along side your organization to support learning objectives

Project Portfolio Management

Working on the right projects at the right time is critical to sustain a competitive advantage. In today's challenging business environment, many organizations struggle with allocating limited resources and assets wisely.

If your organizations project portfolio management practices is just emerging or non-existent then you may be experiencing any of these challenges:

• You don't have the right mix of projects to maximize overall returns
• Risks posed by your projects are not balanced
• Resources and corporate assets are not allocated properly across your projects
• Your organization doesn't regularly review the portfolio of projects, strategically prioritize, and make project selections
• You are not aware of project performance problems until they become major issues
• Your business customers are questioning the value of current projects
• Projects are not aligned with overall business strategy (or don't remain aligned as the strategies change)
• Executives do not have a comprehensive view of projects, causing inadequate oversight

OP2 provides a clearer understanding of your specific needs to develop a well thought out, comprehensive, and strategic plan. This plan will help you go beyond having little or no current project portfolio management practices, to having effective processes, tools, and skills that are actively used in managing your business. Our goal is to help you structure your project portfolio management practices to provide a consistent way to select, prioritize, and manage projects that deliver maximum business value.