LINKING PROJECTS TO

STRATEGY
The Importance of Upper Management Teamwork
 Developing cooperation across the organization requires that upper managers take a
systems approach to projects. This means that, looking at projects as a system
interrelated activities that combine to achieve a common goal.
 Any lack of upper management teamwork reverberates throughout the organization.
 A council may be permanent or temporary, assembled to solve strategic issues. As a
result, a council typically will involve upper management.
 Employing a comprehensive and systematic approach illustrates the vast and important
influence of upper management teamwork on project success.
 These councils exercise leadership by articulating a vision, discussing it with the project
managers, asking them their concerns about and needs for implementing the strategy,
listening carefully to them, and showing them respect so they become engaged in the
process.
Process for Project Selection and Prioritization.
Process Tools
 Identify the important factors and the degree that they affect each other before a clear
decision can be made.
 Identify its criteria and other intangible or concrete factors, measure the interaction among
them in a simple way, and synthesize all information to obtain priories.
 After the defining organizational strategy or product goals, the first task was to identify some
criteria that’s are
(a) Criteria to enter into decision making process.
(b) The criteria were customer satisfaction, business value, process effectiveness and
employee satisfaction.
(c) The criteria were ranked according to priority by making pairwise comparison
between them.
 It can used for prioritizing projects when applied to one criterion at a time.
Barriers to Implementation

 It is a hunch, an instinct, or simply a desire to try something

different.
 Politics can not be ignored.
 The process is too analytical.
 The strategy is unclear or people are uncomfortable with the
strategy.
 The beliefs of leader.
 The leader lacks integrity and exhibits incongruity between words
and actions.
Enablers for Effective Implementation
 The leader has to be initiative to lead through this change process so that people feel
they have an active role in developing the process.

 The new process aggregate project plan makes the fully funded project in one sheet
and list of project for future consideration on the other field.

 The power of using criteria that are tightly linked with strategy and known by
everyone in the organization is mitigating effect it has to guide behavior in the
constructive way.

 Organization follows a process similar to the one describes described increasing their
odds for greater success.
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