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Successful Project Portfolio Planning: Building the Business Case
As organizations move towards a more project and portfolio-driven approach to strategy, the need to have a laser focus on execution and tactical deliverables becomes paramount. Unfortunately, research and experience shows projects and program initiatives most often fail because of a lack of early planning and preparation. The reason nearly a third of all projects continue to fail can be attributed to factors including a progressively difficult balance between time, cost and scope, a more demanding set of technology requirements, and a general rush to complete.

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Project Portfolio Selection: Prioritizing for the Optimal Portfolio
As companies struggle to allocate limited resources and assets wisely, a process for ensuring that the right projects are worked on at the right time becomes critical to corporate strategy execution and superior performance. The key element in this effort is the project and portfolio selection process, and in particular, the prioritization mechanism used to create the optimal portfolio. Unfortunately, industry research as well as UMT Consulting's experience shows that nearly one-third of organizations do not have a prioritization process in place, while another third merely use the existing process to rubber stamp all proposed projects through to approval.

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Generate Executive Business Intelligence Reports using EPM Live
Discover how you can generate executive level reports using EPM Lives Workgroup solution. With EPM Live you can create customized BI charts using SharePoint web parts, custom views, Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft Access 2007. EPM Live Workgroup leverages Microsoft Office Project 2007 which allows you to do desktop reporting as well as lightweight “what- if” modeling. Please join us to learn how you can generate effective project management reports for your organization.

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The Road to Enterprise Project Management (EPM) using EPM Live Workgroup
EPM Live offers a natural stepping stone to give you project management collaboration while your organization prepares for the commitment of an enterprise project management solution. According to Center of Business Practice, 90% of all organizations are between level 1 and 2 project management maturity. We will discuss how EPM Live can help you progress through these project management maturity levels and how to get the most from your projects in the meantime.

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Overcome Your Greatest IT Challenges - IT Work Management Solution
LMR Solutions, a two-time Microsoft award winner for EPM/PPM Best Practices, addresses the critical business challenges that IT organizations will face today and tomorrow as pressure builds on IT leadership teams to meet business demands, exceed service level expectations and customer satisfaction, effectively utilize resources and demonstrate value to the business. This session will cover critical IT topics that will enable your organization to overcome even the greatest IT challenges by achieving a higher level of performance through integration, collaboration and execution of top down and bottom-up strategies while using Microsoft Office Solutions.

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Selecting the Right Work and Doing the Work Right! Microsoft Portfolio Server Value Briefing
Learn how you can align, prioritize, and optimize your project investments by 50% or more leveraging the latest Microsoft technology! In this webinar, LMR Solutions, a two-time award winner for Microsoft EPM Best Practices, will discuss the challenges that many organizations face in managing their project portfolios and how these organizations can alleviate these challenges through the proper balance of process, governance framework, and technology. You understand how to leverage the latest Microsoft offerings, Microsoft Office Project Portfolio Server 2006 and Project Server 2007 to support an integrated portfolio and project environment so that organizations can synchronize their top-down portfolio management strategy with bottoms-up project delivery, effectively ˜Selecting the Right Work and Doing the Work Right.

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Time Control 5 and Project 2007
HMS Software was recognized by Microsoft as a "First to Market" partner in 2006 for our work in integrating TimeControl with Project and Project Server 2007. This presentation shows how TimeControl version 5 links to Project 2007 and some of the benefits of using these two best-of-breed tools together.

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