An organization is more likely to succeed in its mission when the senior management team defines the correct strategy and is then able to implement it successfully through projects that create the business value envisioned in the strategy,  The function of projects, in a business context, is to create business value.  The enterprise will rise or fall based upon whether this happens consistently.

Enterprise Project Management provides the capability to align business drivers in the strategic plan.with the work effort, the availability of skilled resources, and the available budget for the planning period.

Jim Anderson specializes in working with clients to achieve the results they seek in deploying an Enterprise Project Management solution in their organization.

Vision: Help organizations of any size to successfully integrate the EPM framework into their business processes to enable leaders to consistently execute their vision and strategies through a portfolio of projects.

Mission: To successfully partner with clients to deploy flexible, scalable and accessible solutions to allow anyone in the organization to effectively manage or participate on projects within the flow of their daily business activities.

The Microsoft EPM solution  (Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2010, Microsoft Project Server 2010, Microsoft Project Portfolio Server 2010, and Microsoft Project Professional 2010) is largely a "turnkey" product suite that is ready for configuration out of the box.  This is a fully integrated solution providing all of the functionality, collaboration, communication and business intelligence required of a truly enterprise platform.

Standing up and configuring the software is relatively quick and easy; however, navigating the cultural and organizational cross-currents of a full implementation of EPM is, indeed, much harder.  First, senior managers must champion the effort and support it by fostering an organizational culture built upon empowerment, trust, teamwork, cooperation, collaboration and transparency.   

The decision to introduce an EPM solution may stem from the need to:

• Increase the odds of actually achieving planned business value by aligning the selected business drivers with forecasts of work demand, organizational resource capability, and budget constraints for the planning period,
• Grow and integrate project management processes into the core planning processes to provide transparency, governance, management and control of the entire project life-cycle of the project portfolio.
• Sharpen the skills and professionalism of staff project managers,
• Enable anyone in the organization to use the tools in the project management toolkit within the flow of their daily business activities.

All of these considerations are at the core of an effective EPM deployment