Being a well-establish organization with a long history, the sheer scale of their business added to the complexity inherent in their operations, with thousands of project managers globally working on a multitude of project types.
A lack of operational standards and extensive tool proliferation which caused inefficiencies in project & work management, customer & employee frustration, and issues with keeping accurate & timely portfolio level reports.
The amount of time lost per PM by managing projects in the siloed & manual way was causing a project back-log & ultimately was costing the business lost revenue in potential new projects, as well as emotional turmoil.
The Solution
Siemens Energy decided it was time to standardize, harmonize and consolidate all client operations onto a single Collaborative Work Management platform. This initiative is called “OnePM” and it is more than a simple IT project, it is an enterprise-wide business transformation project.
It would become the single source of truth for the operational community within Siemens Energy; project managers, field operators, back-office teams, and other support staff.
A major goal for the OnePM initiative was to increase the productivity of individual Project Managers. IT would do this in several ways, but first and foremost would simply be by consolidating multiple tools & processes into one.
This would allow PMs to communicate better, find & share answers faster and spend less of their time on administrivia, instead spending their time on project planning & delivery.
Another primary objective for OnePM was to increase visibility across all levels of the project portfolio, starting from the minute details of specific tasks, all the way up to project statuses and portfolio health.
The vision for Siemens was to have a central system where PM’s could access and review project hotspots, to do’s and prioritize with ease and accuracy. With the OnePM initiative this has been achieved and powered by AdaptiveWork’s enterprise work management software.
Better, more thorough reports, provided in real time
Increased revenue by completing more client projects each year
Consolidated an average of 5 systems per department
