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FLANDERS, NJ, March 29, 2004 – Virtual Corporation, a leading consulting company that specializes in business continuity, today announced that its Project Management Team for Kaiser Permanente was honored with the New Jersey Project Management Institute's (NJ PMI) 2004 Project of the Year Award. The purpose of the award is to recognize and honor the accomplishments of the recipient for their superior performance and execution of exemplary project management.
Kaiser Permanente, the largest health maintenance organization (HMO) in the United States with approximately 137,000 employees, over 17,000 physicians, and 30 medical centers, aiming to provide the highest quality service at the most affordable price to the members it serves, undertook the largest enterprise-wide business continuity program in the United States and possibly the world. Kaiser Permanente's mission was to deliver to the company's health care facilities and regional offices the ability to design, implement and maintain their own Business Continuity/Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) plans.
Kaiser Permanente's board of directors mandated a formal enterprise business continuity program be implemented to ensure that the nonprofit organization continues to not only serve its membership, but also its communities. The total implementation was comprised of 50 individual projects and resulted in over 6,000 departmental recovery plans being written in 18 months with a team of 12 people.
For this endeavor, Virtual Corporation leveraged its proven business continuity methodologies and project management expertise to meet and exceed Kaiser's expectations for their BC/DR plans.
New Jersey PMI awards local recipients based on the following criteria:
- Met or exceeded Owner/Client's needs.
- Met or improved on budget and schedule performance when compared with original established budget and schedule goals.
- Demonstrated originality and uniqueness of applied project management techniques, including innovative application of practices and methods.
- Exhibited technical aspects and advancement of the image of the project management profession as demonstrated by effective application of the principles set forth in, "A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge" (PMBOK® Guide).
- Complexity of the project and unusual conditions, issues, and barriers requiring special management team action and performance.
About New Jersey Chapter Project Management Institute (NJ PMI)
The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a nonprofit Professional organization dedicated to advance the state-of-art in project management. Established in 1969 and headquartered outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, it has over 126,390 members internationally. The New Jersey Chapter has over 3,035 members. PMI fosters professionalism in Project Management and provides a forum for the exchange of project management problems, solutions and applications. The New Jersey Chapter activities include: panel discussions, professional development meetings, field trips, PMP test preparation classes and annual symposiums.
About Virtual Corporation
Virtual Corporation is a consulting company that specializes in assisting organizations to implement sustainable business continuity (BC) programs. In business for more than 10 years, Virtual has helped numerous large, geographically dispersed enterprises ensure that they can recover from business disruptions. In addition to consulting services, Virtual Corporation provides training to license individuals to perform Business Continuity Maturity ModelSM assessments and staffing services.
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