CRITICAL PMO FUNTIONS ON COST MANAGEMENT - AN EMPIRICAL STUDY IN THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY IN JAPAN

摘要

In such competitive circumstances, companies are paying a lot of attention to invest effectively in R&D projects, especially in the pharmaceutical industry. It is known that cost management maturity has a strong correlation to the corporate profitability in this industry and six critical factors are identified as keys to success of the cost management [19]. It was indicated that some sort of organizations such as Project Management Office (PMO) would take a role of supporting these factors to work effectively. This paper tries to find which PMO functions are influential on those factors by analyzing the result of interviews from quantitative and qualitative point of view. This article proposes PMO functions which are important for corporate profitability.