The DNA of Strategy Execution

7CONNECT

“Everything is connected…no one thing can change by itself.”

Paul Hawken

“Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.”

William Plomer

Leading Questions

• How can you reduce disconnects and better connect to catalyze strategy execution?
• What are the key DNA strands of connect?
• How can project managers and project management offices (PMOs) identify, prioritize, and link stakeholder networks and relationships?
• How can project managers and PMOs build bridges and connect the silos?
• How can the PMO connect, align, and communicate key business activities and organizational portfolio priorities?
• How can project managers and PMOs facilitate communication and relationships?
• How can the PMO cultivate a rich platform for communication and collaboration?
• Why are marketing and communication skills, rather than just communications skills, important?
• How can the PMO cultivate community and collaboration to foster connection and relationship?
• How do we develop connect intelligence?

A nearly $4 billion company I worked with decided to reorganize itself into three business units. Its PMO, which had been created a few years earlier, reinvented itself to meet a new mission of serving the three business units. Its capabilities were fairly broad, including investment planning, resource management, project, program and portfolio management tools and processes, and change management. A new director was brought in to oversee the PMO's reinvention.

It was a rocky ...