Enterprise-wide project management for health plans
People are an organization's most valuable—and often most expensive—asset. Managing people and projects across an organization is complex. Resources are often controlled in various departments, making it difficult to forecast short-term and long-term needs accurately. Organizations without a complete understanding of the skills, knowledge, and availability of its staff cannot strategically hire, deploy, and develop resources that match the needs of a project portfolio. Without this understanding, it can be difficult to assess the financial impact of strategic business decisions or know with confidence which investments are paying off and which ones are not.
Enterprise-wide project management solutions help to give people in health plans visibility, insight, and the control of project-based work they need to optimize business performance. Managing multiple projects as a collective portfolio helps to ensure that health plan efforts are spent only on activities that contribute to the bottom line and redirect those that don't. And because these enterprise project management (EPM) solutions are based on standard Microsoft technologies, they are readily deployed and managed, familiar to end users, and reusable in multiple business contexts for greater agility and maximum return on investment (ROI).
Case study: Minnesota Department of Human Services
The Minnesota Department of Human Services (DHS) employs 6,600 people who work across different organizations. The organization's distributed structure made it difficult for employees to access information in other offices and for project team members to share information. By using an enterprise project management solution from Microsoft, DHS has been able to consolidate and centralize data, improve information consistency, and share information more easily.
Enterprise-wide project management solutions from Microsoft partners
These featured Microsoft partners offer business process and integration solutions built on the Microsoft platform:
| • | Pcubed
Pcubed is a global program management services and solutions company, focused on helping clients deliver complex and critical programs. Pcubed Enterprise Quality Management Solution (EQMS) provides tools for streamlining new quality management methodologies such as Six Sigma and APQP. EQMS builds on the Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management Solution to accelerate the introduction, deployment, and support of quality initiatives across the organization. Pcubed's best practices approach improves program returns by addressing four critical areas: Strategy, people, processes, and technology. The solution gives a single view of all quality management initiatives, providing the capability to track, measure, and analyze results of all projects in the portfolio. EQMS also provides tools for optimizing resource management, helping to increase team productivity. |
| • | Project Assistants, Inc. (Microsoft Gold Certified Partner)
Project Assistants is a full service project management consulting firm founded in 1996, offering consulting services, custom development, education, and staffing for enterprise project management solutions. Project Assistants partners with its clients to provide ongoing productivity and quality improvements through enhanced project management and collaboration solutions. Primary clients of Project Assistants are organizations that base their businesses on mission-critical projects that require enterprise-wide project management methodologies, processes, and tools and a supporting internal organization. Project Assistants has extensive experience and domain expertise within the healthcare industry. |
| • | TCS
Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) is the world-leading information technology consulting, services, and business process outsourcing organization. TCS envisioned and pioneered the adoption of flexible global business practices that today enable companies to operate more efficiently and produce more value. Six of the Fortune Top 10 companies are among TCS valued customers. And TCS is part of one of Asia's largest conglomerates, the TATA Group. With its interests in energy, telecommunications, financial services, chemicals, engineering, and materials, the TATA Group provides TCS with a grounded understanding of specific business challenges facing global companies. |
