Increasingly, organizations are moving toward getting work done via projects. As a result of this trend, project management is an important responsibility in todays organizations. In spite of the widely recognized benefits of a project approach, it is often difficult to introduce the concepts and practices of project management to an organization. This week, you read the AmeriHealth Mercy case study which provides an overview that companys introduction and adoption of project management process within its organizations. While there is little discussion of the hurdles of implementing project management into the organization, especially at the level of an individual employee or department, you can be sure that there was resistance to changes introduced with the new project management processes. After you read the case, think about how the company may have gone about introducing the new project management approach to its employees. And, what the challenges of that may have been. Then answer the following questions in the discussion forum.

1. If you were one of the first project managers within AmeriaHealth Mercy, and part of your role was to introduce the concepts and processes of project management to individuals who have worked in the organization for years, how would you convince them that the new project management processes will be a benefit to both the organizations and the people who work there (no matter how far removed from projects they may be)?