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New Genius Inside blog value-prices the Golden Gate Bridge to kick off new project management discussion

‘PM box’ focuses on people and accomplishments that demonstrate innovative project management’s full value

Montréal, Canada and Geneva, Switzerland, June 30, 2010 – If you’ve ever wondered how much California could have saved on the cost of the Golden Gate Bridge, or what the project management world learned from Pac Man, then Genius Inside’s new blog is for you.

“PM box: Exploring the Value of Project Management,” recently debuted at http://pmbox.geniusinside.com/ with thoughts on the Golden Gate Bridge and Pac Man, plus an open invitation from blogger Neil Stolovitsky for anyone interested in project management to join the discussion. Genius Inside started the blog to showcase how project management can raise productivity and profitability by making processes more responsive, inclusive, and streamlined.

“This blog will focus less on project management techniques and methodologies, and more on the true outcome and value delivered by projects and the people behind their success,” said Stolovitsky, a Genius Inside senior solution specialist with a writing portfolio that includes white papers and articles in areas such as project portfolio management, enterprise resource planning for service industries, professional services automation, and new product development. “PM box’s goal is to provide project management professionals with a soap box to express opinions and stimulate the often neglected subject of ‘value’ in the project management world.”

PM box will include standing features such as applying contemporary project management practices to historical structures such as the Golden Gate Bridge and the Eiffel Tower to demonstrate how much their builders could have saved with today’s tools. Stolovitsky and Genius Inside contributors will also address topical project management subjects, such as the discussions recently showcased at the Gartner PPM Summit. And Stolovitsky plans to include more pop-culture references into the mix, such as the Pac Man blog and a similar piece on how the Pet Rock was a great example of project management.

“We want to start a discussion about project management that gets everyone thinking outside of the proverbial PM box we put ourselves in and into a different realm,” said Genius Inside Managing Director Christophe Borlat. “There is a great wealth of innovative thinking on how to make project management a strategic asset, and we want our blog to be a catalyst for expressing it.”

And for the record, project management software would have saved the Golden Gate Bridge project $437,500 without sacrificing quality construction. Visit PM box to find out how.

About Genius Inside
Established in 1997, Genius Inside develops project management software that improves project selection, planning, staffing, execution and tracking. More than 55,000 users at 500 customers across the globe use Genius Inside’s proven Web- and IBM Lotus Notes-based solutions. They are supported by European and North American offices and a global reseller network. For more information please visit http://www.geniusinside.com