E113 Healthcare Focus with Kris Sprague, Mickey Namamura and Tony Antonios from the PMO Global Alliance

In this episode of Project Management Office Hours, PMO Joe welcomed Kris Sprague, Mickey Nakamura, and Tony Antonios all representing the PMO Global Alliance Strategic Healthcare group. In this episode we focused on the work being done by the PMOGA team as well as PMO Leadership and Project Management in Healthcare as well as trends in the industry.

Kris Sprague is the Head of Program and Project Planning at Regeneron. He is an executive-level
professional with extensive experience building and leading project management organizations
and PMOs that assist business leaders in achieving their strategy. In 2021, he was recognized by the PMO Global Alliance (PMOGA) as one of the Top 4 PMO Leaders in the Americas.

Mickey Nakamura is an innovative & dynamic executive with Senior Transformation, Corporate
Development, Strategic Planning & Execution, Digital IT, Information Technology, Enterprise PMO - Portfolio/Program/Project/Product, & Customer Experience successes. He was winner of the 2022 Top PMO Leader in the Americas.

Tony Antonios is a Senior Leader with 10+ years’ experience across EPMO / PMO, Operations,
Transformation, Product, and Service Design. His industry experience includes Telecommunications, ICT Managed Services, Healthcare, and Financial services. Tony has a strong record of accomplishment in designing and implementing both operational and strategic change, to deliver improved financial outcomes, operational efficiency, service excellence, as well as employee and customer experience.

One of the items the PMOGA Strategic Healthcare group is doing is penning whitepapers to help educate and communicate about healthcare project management. The first white paper they authored is, “New Ways of Working in the New Normal Post-Covid 19”. To learn more and contribute to the group you can visit the group website, https://www.pmoga.world//healthcare We also had a great discussion on the uniqueness of project management in the healthcare industry. Mickey shared, “the impact of what they do is magnified because at the end of that It service is a potential patient that you can adversely impact, as opposed to making a mistake on some other type of industry where maybe you can go back and correct the dimensions of whatever product you have. In healthcare, it's not a product, it's a person.”

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Connect with Kris Sprague:
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/pmodirector/

Connect with Mickey Nakamura:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickeynakamura/

Connect with PMOGA Strategic Healthcare Group
Website - https://www.pmoga.world//healthcare

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