This is a book about improving organizational performance by implementing a project office system that develops project management as a core competency and thus adds value to the organization. A project office consists of a team dedicated to improving the practice of project management in the organization. The improvement in organizational performance is achieved by obtaining more value from projects, making project management a standard management practice, and then moving the organization toward the enterprise project management concept.

Enterprise project management is an organization-wide managerial philosophy. It is based on the idea that company goals are achievable through a web of simultaneous projects supported by a systemic approach that includes corporate strategy projects, operations improvement, and organizational transformation as well as traditional development projects. This means that companies view marketing programs, advertising campaigns, promotional events, new product launches, software development, change management, and continuous improvement, as well as traditional design and construction of new facilities, as projects, using project management approaches to bring them to completion. Virtually everything can be dealt with as a project under the enterprise project management concept