Connecting Project and Strategy Management through Integrated Governance – Ability

At many previous workshops, we have established that strategy delivery:

• is notoriously difficult to do well
• is not being done well by many organisations –  In many organisations:

1. the path from purpose to vision to strategy is not clear or communicated
2. objectives are not well defined, cascaded or established with accountable people
3. Priorities are not well defined or implemented to empower responsible people with funds and resources
4. Objectives are not built on measures which track accomplishment
5. Information infrastructure / capability is not harnessed to enable strategy management
6. There is no support body that operates strategy delivery governance

WHY do so many of us seem to have our heads in the sand on this? We chug along, tolerating poor strategic outcomes, donning the Superman capes to try to keep the wheels on the bus, pretending it’s all great.

From whichever perspective you take a view – executive leadership, corporate governance function, operations management, product management, finance, or transformation leadership – SOMEONE needs to stick their head above the parapet – surely?

Arm yourself with some background on these issues
Learn about a framework you can address them with

….then join our event where we do our very best to empower attendees to engage their stakeholders to do ..SOMETHING!

To support the APM Governance Interest Network – we talked a group of webinar attendees  through the process of making them into ‘BIG Enablers’

For more about the session you can read the public BIG First Steps Meeting – Public Briefing about the Workshop or watch the YouTube recording.

Materials we used in the session (Readiness model / pains canvass) are available here

Recent quotes:

• “I found today’s webinar excellent. It would be very useful to talk with you about my situation”
• “I am meeting the COO tomorrow and want to schedule a half-day workshop with him early in the new year to go the first steps.”
• “I thought the template was really useful for this and will be utilising it in future.”
• “The APM Webinars held by you was insightful. Sharing of experience and thoughts of you all really helped me in my career development.”
• “thanks to BIG and to your kind offer about becoming an Associate, I see that it could be a new vector of my career – becoming Strategy delivery director! Thank you for this insight.”

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Best foot forwards? Or keep eating sand?