EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP, RAPID RESPONSE, AND EXACTLY MATCHED TALENT

Project Management Office

In an environment in which traditional life sciences models and strategies have been eclipsed by new ways of doing business, competitiveness requires organizational agility – and that starts with the PMO. Success requires a combination of specific project area expertise and general management experience. Exactly what The Evanston Group provides.

TOP TALENT PMO CONSULTANTS WITH DEEP INDUSTRY EXPERTISE AND DECADES OF EXPERIENCE

In a rapidly disrupted marketplace, business as usual won’t suffice. Keeping your competitive edge requires organizational agility, and it starts with the PMO.

Whether the PMO is centralized enterprise-wide, decentralized at the functional level, or set up to specifically manage a program like an ERP implementation or a project like an integration, success requires both general PMO experience and specific subject matter expertise. That’s what The Evanston Group has been providing for over two decades: top talent PMO consultants with deep industry expertise and decades of experience accelerating delivery of key initiatives, from strategy to execution.

DELIVERING VALUE ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF PMO ENGAGEMENTS

PMO Creation & Process Development

PMO/PPM Tool Implementation & Adoption

Portfolio Management

PMO Maturity Level Assessments, Strategy & Improvement

Resource & Demand Management

Communication & Training

Dashboard Design & Creation

PROJECT TEAM FOR CLARITY PROJECT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT (PPM) BUILDOUT

As true partners, The Evanston Group surfaces your need and curates a team to fill it.

The Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) at this $5 billion pharmaceutical firm brought in The Evanston Group to help build out and implement Clarity PPM for the global R&D organization. The CSO was seeking greater visibility into the overall R&D portfolio in order to do better portfolio planning. When we engaged with the client, the PPM rollout was in a state of disarray. The previous team had tried to jam a system in without aligning the processes and the people, and it was an utter failure.

Our first step was to bring in a program leader and technical experts to dig in to the client’s as-is and to-be processes and document them in a PMO playbook. Then we were able to determine the specific project team we’d need in order to roll out Clarity PPM and get to the to-be state. We took ownership to ensure that the project was staffed with the right people – we brought in the overall program manager plus a couple of Clarity architects, business analysts, and communications specialists. We partnered with the internal business and IT teams to ensure the PPM tool was rolled out in line with the business expectations.

PMO LEADER FOR STAGE-GATED NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT AND PPM ROLLOUT

Over the course of a two-year period, The Evanston Group helped to build out the client’s stage-gated processes, roll out a project portfolio management tool, and develop analytics capabilities.

For this $10 billion medical device firm, we provided a PMO leader and team of experts to consult on PMO processes around project portfolio management and stage-gated new product development. We helped the client rollout Microsoft Project Server and Enterprise Project Management (EPM) and develop financial analytics and portfolio analytics capabilities. And we helped them build their stage-gated R&D processes after a series of acquisitions and divestitures.Tactically, we helped the client to then use those tools and systems to optimally execute their portfolio planning.

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what our customers say

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“Knowing how to match consultants with the industry knowledge who can jump right in, hit the ground running, and make it work for clients is why The Evanston Group is a top-notch organization from top to bottom.”
- Senior Project Manager and Clinical Researcher

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“Placing hard to find, adaptable people with very specialized backgrounds and a working knowledge of projects that are more complex to run is how The Evanston Group differentiates from others in the market.”
- Clinical Manager specializing in rare disease

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“My expectations were exceeded by the caliber of people The Evanston Group brings in. When I am looking for a special mix of talents, skills and background, The Evanston Group has been able to find and screen a very high quality set of resources. They are immediately right on target.”
- Senior Vice President, $10B medical devices company

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“It is rare when a company and its associates can exemplify so many wonderful values with forethought and respect for those in their employ.”
- Software Engineer Consultant, Johnson & Johnson

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