Book description
As an executive, your organization may have limited resources. This book will instruct you and your leadership teams on implementing strategy through identifying, selecting, prioritizing, resourcing, and governing an optimal work portfolio. You’ll learn how to sponsor every project stage, as well as leading project managers as direct reports. Detailed advice is given for developing project management competency and utilizing input from customers, employees, and processes. You’ll learn how your organization can capitalize upon information technology to become competitive and to effectively implement business strategies, as well as how to make portfolio and project decisions using both qualitative and quantitative data and reliable analysis methods.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 Implementing Strategy Through Portfolios and Projects
- Chapter 2 Managing a Portfolio to Implement Strategy: A Leadership Team Role
- Chapter 3 Sponsoring Successful Projects
- Chapter 4 Leading Project Managers: The Project Executive Role
- Chapter 5 Listening to Customers, Employees, and Processes: A Chief Projects Officer’s Role
- Chapter 6 Understanding Information Technology Opportunities and Challenges: A Chief Information Officer’s Role
- Chapter 7 Making Sensible Decisions Using Data: A Responsibility of All Executives
- Chapter 8 Conclusions
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Backcover
Product information
- Title: Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2012
- Publisher(s): Business Expert Press
- ISBN: 9781606492956
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