Cook Children’s
Jonathan Overton
Director-PMO, IT Finances, IT Contracts
Jonathan Overton-Brief Bio
 Master’s Business Management
• Texas Women’s University
 Bachelor of Science Business Management
• University of Phoenix
 Companies
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GRiD Systems/AST Computer
Keane (IT Consulting)
The Associates
American Airlines
Texas Health Resources (2)
Baylor Healthcare System
Cook Children’s
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Cook Background
 Cook Children’s is a not-forprofit established in 1918
 Mission Statement-Our
Promise-Knowing that every
child's life is sacred, it is the
promise of Cook Children's to
improve the health of every child
in our region through the
prevention and treatment of
illness, disease and injury.
 Companies
Our combined service area
is larger than the fifth largest State,
New Mexico = 121,593 square miles
And covers nearly half (47%)
of the State of Texas
• Medical Center, Home
Health, Physician’s
Network, Health Plan, Joint
Venture Hospitals, Clinics
Cook Information Services
 ~190 employees
 Electronic Health Record-Meditech
 430+ applications
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IT Alignment;
Strategic/Tactical Planning
 Develop/maintain technology roadmaps
• Roadmaps align with the organizational
strategy
 Manage project portfolio
• Alignment of project proposed outcomes to
strategy and technology roadmaps
• Portfolio provides insights into status, spend
and resources to “quickly turn”
Project Management
Challenges for Project Delivery
1. Requirements (Scope)
2. Identification of Stakeholders/Customers
3. Communications
4. Sponsor/Stakeholder Responsibilities
5. Desired Delivery Schedule vs. Real Schedule
5A. Resource availability
6. Processes (Workflows)
7. Testing
8. Reports
9. Sunset
10. Transition to Operations
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Budgeting/Financial Mgt
Annual Budgeting
 Fiscal Year October-September
• Alignment with the state/federal government
 Hardware/Software Maintenance
• 14% growth over FY14
On-going Management
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Span of control
Monthly review
Detailed expenses (e.g. training, travel)
Show back for costs
Knowledge Sources
Books
 Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO
 The Strategic Project Office
 The Unified Software Development Process
 Successful Manager’s Handbook
 The Real Business of IT
Organizations
 Project Management Institute
 Society for Information Management
 Health Information Management Systems Society
 College of Healthcare Information Management
Executives
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