Project Management Outsourcing

Gain professional project management expertise—where and when you need it—while growing and optimizing your internal capability. With our Project Management Outsourcing service, you have the flexibility of ramping up your project resources when necessary, while enriching your organization with access to our vast project expertise.

 

Our Approach

Core to our Project Management Outsourcing service is collaboration: developing a strong partnership with you. We come to understand your culture, way of working and strategic goals. We then help build an optimally sized project management resource that maximizes your core internal team, while utilizing our experienced staff to effectively cover any weak spots. While doing so, we ensure efficient transfer of project skills and new techniques to your staff via structured mentoring and coaching.

 

When to Use PM Outsourcing

Project Management Outsourcing is of particular value if your organization runs multiple projects simultaneously or is embarking on a new initiative without the project management skills to successfully deliver it. PM Outsourcing is also valuable if your company:

  • Uses contract or temporary project management resources
  • Works within a multi-project or multi-location project environment
  • Has difficulty planning project resource needs
  • Has an over-stretched internal project team
  • Needs to improve the effectiveness of project management staff
  • Has a business-critical project that needs urgent attention
  • Wants to maximize an internal team without losing control to third parties

 

Figure 1: Project Management resource optimization, internal vs. outsourced

 

Our Proposition

As the world’s leading global project management consultancy, we work at the cutting edge of industry practice. However, we recognize that you have unique requirements. By collaborating with us to support your project management needs, you gain access to our experienced project staff, our coaching/training professionals and our extensive portfolio of project management tools and technique—all of which combine to meet your business goals.

 

Our Approach

  • The Cognizant Difference

    It's in our DNA. Placing our clients first is embedded in the Cognizant culture. By investing in our people and resources, we bring new ideas and innovation to help you succeed in a changing business environment.

  • Two-in-a-Box

    We embed senior personnel with demonstrated industry expertise in your IT organization. They coordinate strategy with dedicated offsite delivery managers, freeing your team to concentrate on core business objectives.

  • Cognizant 2.0

    By employing the Cognizant 2.0 platform, we bring the best people, resources and capabilities of our global delivery system to any client, anywhere.