Project Management
As an executive or director in the healthcare informatics industry, what
concerns you most when embarking on a new project? Is it the challenge of
the new project itself, whether or not you have the skill set within your
ranks to pull it off, or is your customer (the end-user) going to be happy
with the results of the organizations decision? You may ask, “How
am I going to balance the project pool that my team must execute based on
commitments to my executive team?” These are only a few items that
keep most executives and directors in IT up at night. So, how do you effectively
mitigate some of these concerns/risks? One answer is by investing in the
appropriate project management skill set to make sure your project investment
will be successful.
What we do?
Vitalize partners with healthcare organizations and vendors looking for
project managers to help with their information technology enabling projects.
Vitalize provides project management services for healthcare organizations
who are engaged in single or multiple IT enabling projects. Through the
use of our PMO Methodology and Webshare Repository, we provide a fully packaged
project management solution to our customers.
- Project integration is more challenging than ever.
- Higher expectations for your IT enabled investments.
- Shrinking budgets
- Resource constraints
- Upswing in clinical initiatives with increasing consequences for failure
It takes a combination of technical, operational and change management
skill sets to meet the demands of a successful project. This skill set of
qualified project management in the market place is difficult to obtain
and expensive to retain. Project Managers at Vitalize Consulting Solutions
manage at the executive/director level and take responsibility for running
single or multiple projects. Obviously, integration of multiple projects
is very challenging. It takes a combination of technical, operational and
change management skill sets to meet the demands of a successful project.
This skill set of qualified project management in the market place is difficult
to obtain and expensive to retain.
- Large projects are generally complex, subjected to tight budgets and
require a complex set of resources. When investing in a multi-million dollar
service or product implementation, your chances of success are significantly
improved when you effectively manage complex scope, time, cost, quality
and customer satisfaction. A qualified, industry experienced and certified
project manager will do just that.
- Turnover. Highly qualified project managers are valued across many industry
segments today. The allure of larger more complex projects and higher compensation
compel many project managers to move on. As an executive or director, this
represents a risk for large projects that span multiple months and/or years.
With outsourced project management, there is a pool of qualified project
managers to choose from, that readily provides back-up in the event that
it is necessary.
- Additional overhead costs for salary, benefits, etc., impact “C’s” bottom
line when projects are on hold and/or not running. Why pay for a highly
skilled resource when a project is not running?
- With an internal project manager, the politics of tough decision making
may not align with the peer pressure associated with day to day relationships
with other members of the hospital IT and operational staff. Utilizing
an outsourced project manager eliminates that risk to your project. Leveraging
only a project manager that works for an application or product vendor
introduces risk due to potential misaligned objectives. Using an outsourced
project manager ensures these misalignments are course corrected.
- Protect your investment: Fact, 78% of projects fail to meet their objectives.
Project management is typically not considered at the top of the list when
staffing a new project. Most organizations directly focus on tactical resource
requirements and skill set vs. who is going to manage the project. Underestimating
your project management needs will guarantee you to become part of the
78% statistic.
- For our methodology. Typically methodologies are too complex and do
not provide the value they promise. This situation ends-up causing your
project manager to manage the process and not the project. The VCS project
management methodology is a best of breed framework based on the five guiding
PMI process groups and 39 knowledge areas. Our methodology helps manage
the project.
- For our VCS WebShare Project Repository. Leveraging intellectual capital
is traditionally not a strong point of most organizations. Excessive paper
waste, version control and large unwieldy project binders are common problems
in managing project documentation. Utilizing VCS’s WebShare Project
Repository allows secure user-defined access to all pertinent project documentation.
This allows all levels of project participants to stay informed of the
project with instant on-line access to a standardized folder structure
with documentation control processes and procedures. C-level executives
will have instant access to the latest and greatest project documentation
and at the end of the project your intellectual capital will be delivered
to you on a CD.
- Exposure to multiple facets of the healthcare enterprise. Many project
managers in the market place for healthcare do not view their responsibility
peripherally across the healthcare enterprise. Rather, their responsibility
is “siloed” and does not identify opportunities for improved
integration and workflow optimization across multiple functions and systems.
VCS project managers have exposure to a healthy cross-section of applications,
services and products; which immediately provides value-add to every engagement
we manage.
- Our people. Many consulting firms in the market place offer similar
services. The key difference is very simple, our people. Since its inception
in 2002, Vitalize Consulting Solutions has been successful through its
people. Vitalize has grown because of our mission to seek and retain the
best of the best in the industry. The level of experience and quality of
our professionals is un-matched, our service methodology is best of breed
based on tested/proven experience and industry standards.
- Project Management Institute Certified Project Managers. Our Practice
Director, Marc Hirshfield is a PMP certified project manager with 10 years
of industry experience, seven of them with Siemens Medical Solutions,
Health Services and over 30 million in project responsibilities. The PMP
certification is held only in 1% of project managers worldwide. All of
the Vitalize Consulting Solutions project managers are certified or on
an education path to complete the certification within two years of being
hired by Vitalize Consulting Solutions, Inc..
- VCS only hires project managers that meet our rigorous selection criteria.
This model includes a breakdown of 40 key skill areas, with a focus on
industry experience, technical, operational skills and education. The
project manager must meet these primary criteria rankings in order to
be considered for a project with one of our partners.