The article explores the benefits/possibilities of using OPM-EPM in business enterprises to assess and plan for improvement in Project Management in the future. It offers a clear idea about portfolio, program and project management working towards an enterprise-wide project management or enterprise project management.

Global business trends dictate that all organizations set a vision for the future and follow a business strategy to meet continuous growth with success. The 21st Century has ushered project management as a recognized part of business management that organizations will incorporate to gain success in meeting the business goal. Further recent business research papers predominantly recommend that all organizations follow project management and also establish a Project Management Office (PMO). One of the recent trends is following Portfolio Management for choosing only the right projects to meet the vision. The other is the capability to use Organizational/Enterprise Project Management (EPM) that allows Portfolio, Program, Project Management implementation to meet the organization vision/strategy through project success. Many refer to the concept as maturity but do not explain that all these can be achieved only through a proper integration of all process and systems that we call Total Solutions (TS).

This article is based on the research done by many organizations including Project Management Institute® (PMI) to find a model or a process by which organizations will be able to introduce the concept of linking business strategy to operational level successes. In respect to EPM this article highlights the use of tools to meet the Organizational Project management needs for portfolio, program and project management. EPM is mainly for the Communication and Collaboration from top to bottom and bottom to top. In order to understand the use of EPM one must have full knowledge of the organizational project management concepts and better also in details portfolio, program and project management as given in respective standards.

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