Category: Company News

BankservAfrica crowned as South African PMO of the Year

The enterprise project management office (ePMO) of BankservAfrica, the largest automated clearing house in Africa, has taken the title of South Africa’s top PMO for 2022, with Altron Karabina, a Microsoft digital transformation partner, being named as runner up. The South African PMO Awards is an annual competition managed by Project Portfolio Office, a project and portfolio management (PPM) tool and solutions provider committed to growing the project management profession, in order to identify and recognise PMOs in South Africa that are delivering value to their organisations.

Capitec beats global entrants to be crowned the World PMO of the Year, a South African and African first!

The project management office (PMO) of Capitec Bank has won the PMO Global Alliance’s (PMGOA) World PMO of the Year award for 2022, making the South African retail bank the first-ever African recipient of the most prestigious worldwide award for PMOs, projects and PMO professionals.

Sun International rolls out PPO’s PPM tool to provide an enterprise view of its portfolio.

The project management office (PMO) of Sun International, a business with a proud legacy in the gaming, hospitality and entertainment sector, is using Project Portfolio Office’s cloud-based project and portfolio management (PPM) tool, PPO, to build maturity within its project environment, providing gentle guardrails to establish best practice, while efficiently managing projects.

SA PMO Award runner-up sees cost savings, a boost in project delivery and automation of manual capabilities in the PMO

The project management office (PMO) of leading financial services group, PSG, has driven tremendous value across the group since it centralised project management delivery across its three operating divisions, namely PSG Wealth, PSG Asset Management and PSG Insure.

PPO Bootcamps: The What, the Why, the How to Get Signed Up!

PPO has always found that well trained users and PPO Administrators get more value out of PPO, and therefore so does the organisation. We are also aware that users and team members come and go in the project environment, so to make sure we don’t have “training-by-broken-telephone”, we have created a series of training Bootcamps … Continue reading

Capitec takes local PMO of the Year award, PSG named runner up

The project management office (PMO) of Capitec Bank has been announced as the overall winner of the 2021 South African PMO Awards. The South African retail banking company beat three other semi-finalists to take the title, namely runners up PSG, as well as Nedbank Insurance and Alexander Forbes.

PPM tool helps Harmony’s TPMO deliver all technology and business projects, aiding transformation to a centralised enterprise-wide shared services project office for the organisation

Harmony, a gold mining and exploration company with activities in both South Africa and Papua New Guinea, has successfully rolled out Project Portfolio Office’s PPO secure, cloud-based project portfolio management (PPM) tool, helping the organisation to manage a complex portfolio, which included the merging of AngloGold Ashanti’s remaining local assets into the Harmony business.

FNB Botswana named as winning local PMO of the Year, reaches African category of Global PMO Awards

The project management office (PMO) of FNB Botswana has been recognised as the top PMO of the Year in Botswana by the South Africa PMO Awards, progressing to the next level to compete for the title of African PMO of the Year against project offices from the rest of the continent. This includes South African title winner, the City of Cape Town. The winner of the overall African title then participates in the Global PMO of the Year award.

City of Cape Town is South Africa’s Best Project Management Office (PMO) for 2020

In a competition that saw the project management offices (PMOs) of ten different South African businesses pitted against one another – a record number of local entrants – the official winner of the SA PMO Awards for 2020 has been announced as the City of Cape Town.

Announcing the semi-finalists for the 2020 South Africa Project Management Office (PMO) awards

10 PMOs, 15 judges, 16 hours of webinar sessions, 36 evaluations, 54 hours of viewing, and we have our finalists for the last stage of the 2020 South Africa PMO Awards competition! Today, we’re thrilled to announce the 4 semi-finalists moving on to the evaluation stage of the world’s largest professional competition for PMOs, their organisations, and leaders.