J. Kent Crawford, PMP, PMI Fellow, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project Management Solutions, Inc. (PM Solutions), a management consulting, training, and research firm headquartered in Chadds Ford, Pa., a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.  Mr. Crawford is the award-winning author of The Strategic Project Office: A Guide to Improving Organizational Performance (for which he won the 2002 David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award from PMI), and Project Management Maturity Model: Providing a Proven Path to Project Management Excellence. Mr. Crawford’s recent book, Optimizing Human Capital with a Strategic Project Office, focuses on a project office’s potential to transform an enterprise by making the most of people.  New for 2008, is Strategic Performance Management, a book which addresses how organizational performance is improved by effective integration of portfolio/project management with organizational strategy.