The benefits of PMOs in Icelandic organizations and why some have been shut down

Since the millennium a few Project Management Offices (PMOs) have been established in organizations in Iceland. A research was conducted in the year 2007 on the features of all known PMOs in Iceland. Since then Icelandic organizations have been going through the filtering effects of the financial cr...

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Main Author: Sigurður Bjarni Gíslason 1978-
Other Authors: Háskólinn í Reykjavík
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2012
Subjects:
Verkefnastjórnun
Project management
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1946/12943
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spelling ftskemman:oai:skemman.is:1946/12943 2023-05-15T16:46:54+02:00 The benefits of PMOs in Icelandic organizations and why some have been shut down Sigurður Bjarni Gíslason 1978- Háskólinn í Reykjavík 2012-05 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1946/12943 en eng http://hdl.handle.net/1946/12943 Verkefnastjórnun Project management Thesis Master's 2012 ftskemman 2022-12-11T06:51:46Z Since the millennium a few Project Management Offices (PMOs) have been established in organizations in Iceland. A research was conducted in the year 2007 on the features of all known PMOs in Iceland. Since then Icelandic organizations have been going through the filtering effects of the financial crisis that „struck” the Icelandic economy. Through this turmoil, what happened to the PMOs, and why? The key findings of this paper are that PMOs have more realistic expectations about their effort than 5 years ago. Many of the PMOs were shut down because of the effect of the economic situation. The PMOs have also proven to be more selling-orientated now than they were 5 years ago, opposed to be working on a strategic level. Thesis Iceland Skemman (Iceland)
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Project management
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Project management
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description Since the millennium a few Project Management Offices (PMOs) have been established in organizations in Iceland. A research was conducted in the year 2007 on the features of all known PMOs in Iceland. Since then Icelandic organizations have been going through the filtering effects of the financial crisis that „struck” the Icelandic economy. Through this turmoil, what happened to the PMOs, and why? The key findings of this paper are that PMOs have more realistic expectations about their effort than 5 years ago. Many of the PMOs were shut down because of the effect of the economic situation. The PMOs have also proven to be more selling-orientated now than they were 5 years ago, opposed to be working on a strategic level.
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