| | March 20176CIOReviewThe ability to deliver projects on time and within budget determines the longevity of a company today. Efficient project management tools help them achieve this, by creating a strategic value chain that will give enterprises an edge over their competitors, particularly in high-risk sectors and markets. Combining project, program and portfolio management, more companies are clearly seeing the payoff from investing time, money and resources to build organizational project management expertise today. It lowers costs, provides greater efficiencies, improves customer and stakeholder satisfaction, and facilitates competitive advantage.With the evolution of technology, organizations should adapt the new trends into their project management structure. For instance is the emergence of Agile project management methodologies. With shared online tools like Microsoft's Project Professional, Atlassian, Podio and Basecamp, project managers are creating and delegating tasks to a mobile workforce which sits across the globe. This agility in project management can also be leveraged by smaller businesses, who can take advantage of free tools to add flexibility to their employee workload. IIoT is also bringing changes to project management, including supporting a constant availability of systems and providing more insights into the way work is being done.Implementing the right project management tool is one part. Exploiting the full potential of these tools require skills that allow adapting the features into a rapidly changing work environment. Niche businesses are providing the tools and skills for their managers that allow them to make the process of running a project more flexible. Such managers are able to run the projects according to companies' strategic vision and see a clear picture with the smallest details. Our aim with this special edition on project management technology is to help you gain more visibility into landscape. We hope this information will help you expand your project management capabilities and assist you in shifting to the next level of managing modern day, project-heavy business world.Jeevan George Managing Editoreditor@cioreview.comEditorialMoving ahead with TimeCopyright © 2017 ValleyMedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewMARCH - 30 - 2017Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 MARCH - 30 - 2017, Vol 06 SE 32 Published by ValleyMedia, Inc. To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com PROJECT MANAGEMENT SPECIALCIOReviewEditorial StaffSalesT: 510-565-7564Aaron PierceFrank Wilson Kyle SummersSarah FernandezSyeda Tina TabinVivian MurrayBrian Thomasbrian@cioreview.comVisualizersIssac GeorgeManaging EditorJeevan GeorgeAjay K Das
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