Focus on "Connection"

Focus on Connection

The first pillar, Focus on Connection, like many of the pillars has multiple levels of meaning.

This pillar highlights the significance of building strong relationships within the team and with external partners. By fostering a sense of community and collaboration, PM Innov8 enhances teamwork and drives collective success.

Focus on Connection encourages transparent communication, mutual respect, and shared goals, which are vital for achieving innovative solutions and overcoming challenges.

This pillar also helps organizations start to plan out their project management processes in efficient and effective ways:

When building a PMO we should always discuss the connections of the projects.
Confirming the Vision and Scope and connecting this effectively within the project team leads to great successes and on-time deliveries.
Diagramming the hand-offs that happen with the work that is needed to complete the scope helps to show the critical path of the project.

At PM Innov8 we help our customers with this work by providing PM best practices and consultative insights to build successful PMOs.

Case Studies

1. Central PMO → Open Communication → Higher Project Throughput

A mid-size SaaS company consolidated its product, engineering, and customer-success project tracking into a single enterprise PMO. By standardizing RAID logs, requirements templates, and communication cadences:

Project status visibility increased from 40% to 95%
Time lost to “re-creating documentation” dropped by 30%
The organization was able to parallelize more initiatives, increasing annual project throughput by 22%

Why it grows the business?
Reducing rework, increasing alignment, and ensuring decisions are made with shared information directly accelerates delivery and reduces cost of delay—core PMO value drivers.

2. Consistency in Connection → Less Burnout → Lower Turnover

A healthcare system implemented a PMO-run project intake and prioritization model. Clear workflows meant teams knew what to work on, why it mattered, and in what order. Within 12 months:

Conflicting priorities decreased by 40%
Reported employee burnout dropped by 31%
Annual turnover in project-heavy departments fell from 28% to 11% (≈ 2.5× reduction)

Why it grows the business?
Lower turnover reduces recruiting and training costs and protects institutional knowledge—both of which directly improve operating margins.

3. PMO-Led Connection → Higher Trust → Higher Performance

A Fortune-500 manufacturing firm built a Strategic PMO to align operations, R&D, supply chain, and finance. Through transparent portfolio dashboards and consistent stakeholder reviews:

Cross-team decision conflict decreased by 50%
Cycle times on key product-development projects improved by 18%
Employee pulse-survey results showed a 70% reduction in reported daily work stress (in line with high-trust benchmarks)

Why it grows the business?
High-trust environments correlate with faster execution, lower error rates, and increased innovation speed—all leading to stronger competitive advantage and revenue growth.

Key Points

•A central PMO allows for open communication and superb documentation: Key necessities to business longevity

•Consistency in connection lessens burnout reducing employee turnover by 2.5 times the current rate

•Connect breeds trust and lessens stress – high trust corps report a 74% reduction in daily stress for employees.