The project management office as an organisational innovation

The paper presents an investigation of the creation and the reconfiguration of project management offices (PMOs) as an organisational innovation. The analysis of 11 organisational transformations centred on the implementation or reconfiguration of PMOs is presented. The objective of the paper is to contribute to a better understanding of PMOs and of the dynamic relationship between project management and the organisational context. The aim is also to integrate the examination of PMOs as an organisational innovation into the mainstream of research on the place of project management in organisations and more widely to the “rethinking of project management.”