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Aligning Project Management with Organisational Strategy

Course Duration: 3 Days (8:30am-5:00pm)

Professional Development Units (PDU): 22.5

Continuous Professional Development Points (CPD): 15

You'll Learn How To:

• Understand and support top-level strategy formulation
• Link corporate strategy from business strategy to portfolio development to project implementation
• Ensure project credibility by aligning your project with your organisation's goals, objectives and strategies
• Create and implement an appropriate strategy for your project
• Understand the need to communicate your strategy to the project team, the customer, and other project stakeholders
• Manage stakeholder expectations to maintain portfolio/project alignment

Program Objectives:

Today's business climate is characterised by unprecedented changes in technology and globalisation, as well as by complex business relationships and the unrelenting drive for competitive success. In this highly stressful environment, it is essential for project managers to think and act strategically. How does an organisation formulate a strategy to achieve competitive success? How do projects contribute to the implementation of the organisation's strategy? How should a project manager develop a project strategy that supports organisational strategic and business goals?

Aligning Project Management with Organisational Strategy gives you an in-depth analysis of the process leading from business strategy formation to portfolio development to the project and project manager's role. Learn how to link your project to the business strategy, develop an appropriate project execution strategy, apply and maintain alignment of the project strategy, and manage the expectations and interests of those who have a stake in the project outcome.

Thought-provoking discussions and stimulating exercises highlight this dynamic, timely course.

Course Outline

1. Organisational Strategy in Context: Defining Strategy and explain the relationship among mission, objectives, strategy and tactic Understand the role of strategy in achieving organisational success How changes in the business environment influence strategy and how strategy can be used as a method of responding to change The impact of the organisational constraints on strategy
2. Organisational Strategy: Approaches and Techniques: How strategy should be formulated Strategic intent and positioning Stakeholders in strategy formulation and techniques to improve strategy formulation Elements of a successful strategy The relationship between strategy and achievability 
3.  Portfolio Management: Strategic Context Defining a portfolio: Projects that make up a portfolio Challenges and Benefits of Portfolio Management Who is involved in portfolio management and what roles do they play?
4. Portfolio Management: Set Up and Selection: The steps to set up a portfolio management process The mechanisms that organisations can establish to make decisions about what their portfolio contains How organisations generate potential projects The steps in selecting projects for a portfolio
5. Portfolio Management: Maintaining Alignment with Strategy: The activities necessary to integrate new projects into existing portfolio How project performance and project gateway reviews contribute to portfolio management The filtering process Portfolio Management lessons that must be captured in project closure
6. Strategic Project Management: The implications of strategic alignment on project management Project Manager responses to survive in a strategic project environment
7. Project Management: Maintaining Alignment and Strategy How to keep projects aligned with strategy through project planning, execution, control and closeout How to set up an alignment process that is part of a management system How to manage change that affects projects How to manage stakeholder expectations and resistance

Course Schedule and Fees

Prices below are indicative of Public Courses Only. Discounts apply for groups and on site training. Please call ESI to discuss.