Harvard Business Review Project Management Handbook

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The Agile and Project-Driven Organization

Building the Structure and Culture Needed for Project Success

Your organization’s structure, culture, and ways of working will have an impact on the success of your projects. Traditional, top-down organizations will struggle in the Project Economy—this chapter covers how organizations can adapt to become more agile and project-based to succeed in a turbulent world. It will also discuss the eight most common challenges in project implementation from a cultural, organizational, and work-process perspective and how you and your leadership team can overcome them.

Many Western companies still have a hierarchical structure based on the command-and-control principles of the twentieth century. Budgets, ...