Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change, Second Edition

Chapter 13. Project Management and Strategy Execution

Introduction

The basic model of strategy execution or implementation presented in Chapter 2 has guided all discussions in subsequent chapters. Chapter 2, however, did add an element to the basic model that did not appear in the original version of this book: namely, the possible contribution of project management to the process of making strategy work. The introduction of project management in no way alters the impact and importance of other variables or decisions in the basic model. Rather, project management is being introduced as a tool or process that can facilitate implementation of parts of the basic model, thereby contributing incrementally to the successful execution of strategy. ...