Productivity Powered By OMICRON—By David Adeoye Abodunrin

As the world settles into another round of Lockdowns with the attempts to ensure that global productivity mustn’t nosedive, adequate strategic, technical, and operational plans must be made to empower and ensure value delivery across the enterprise be it governments at local, regional, national and international levels.

The momentum gained over recent months must not relapse over winter; so that we can avoid productivity ” drag” that can lead to drain of resources, reworks, wastage by “muda” of movement/motion. This is so because an economic restart will consume further energy before production balance is attained at productive Trajectories.

The management imperative, therefore, is for us to operate the factors of production– men, materials, machines, methods, mastery etc.– in a way that not only ensures productivity but also guarantees our earlier recovery projections over the next uncertain months ahead.

Therefore, agile delivery systems that empower asynchronous and synchronized workgroups in a continuous adaptable manner must now be deployed with sufficient fail-over plans and budgetary allocations.

PMOs are brilliant examples of such business organisations that provide for an unusual opportunity to create such adaptable business advantage in the short, mid and longer runs in a sustainable and profitable manner.

The only dynamic key Intel about PMOs that is often undervalued is the quiet dissonance between the stated open objectives of the PMO and the reality of the context in which the PMO exists.

Many times, there are deeper issues behind the PMO set up such as enumerated in this video Vs the stated objectives/ matching orders given to the PMO on the face value of it.

PMO designers/managers need to have sufficient organizational awareness, contextual Intelligence and awareness, cultural Intelligence and  critical business process flow understanding to know what the business is really dealing with at that time and only then can Situational Intelligence (coup d’œil) required for accurate and Adequate decision- making be delivered on point and in situ.

In this season, of this new variant, you and your business already have a certain type of PMO (and if not you would) eventually; most likely with another name or in another form or with another designation and setup…

The counsel, here, therefore, is to take it a notch higher and do it very well…

In conclusion, PMOs are great to have indeed for organizations, but there are some very interesting challenges when setting then up and more so in operating them at a period such as the ongoing pandemic as it is right now in the world.