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A Quick Guide to Strategic Initiatives

ProjectManager.com

Although the term “strategic initiative” might sound like inflated business jargon, it’s far from useless. A strategic initiative is a compass that guides businesses and targets future goals. What Is a Strategic Initiative? Why Make a Strategic Initiative?

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Is your organization failing to close the gaps between strategy and project execution? Fortunately, there are strategies ( and tools! ) Let’s review strategies and tools you can use, and learn how they can help you close that gap to promote successful project execution.

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Project Prioritization: How to Prioritize Projects & Strategy

ProjectManager.com

You use your current portfolio of projects as a marker that illustrates how your resources are allocated at that moment and gives you a snapshot of whether your projects align with your strategy.

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5 Strategies for Digital Transformation Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But many digital transformation projects fail because organizations begin these initiatives without a clear idea of what they want to achieve. You also need to understand strategies that work before you begin so you can hit the ground running and avoid unnecessary delays or setbacks.

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Moving From Strategy to Execution

Speaker: Barb Barker and Shannon Riley, Wrike Team

In its simplest state, an organization's Strategic Performance Management context begins with corporate strategies (including objectives) which cascade to business units or equivalent organizational entities (IT), which, in turn, develop aligned strategies. Projects are the temporary initiatives that companies put into place alongside their ongoing operations to achieve specific goals. As a project manager, it is our job to take these initiatives, and execute them effectively within our teams.

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How to Get Projects From Strategy

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a question I’m hearing quite a lot at the moment: How do I turn my company’s strategy into actual projects? It’s good to have a strategy, of course. But a strategy that stays in a fancy PowerPoint presentation isn’t helpful to anyone.

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16 Pre-Project Questions for Project Initiation Meetings

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The next step will be properly initiating the project. The Project Initiation Phase. You kick off the project through the project initiation phase. How Long is Project Initiation? On a small project, you could finish projet initiation in a morning, following a chat with one other person. So don’t let anyone tell you are taking too long for project initiation. When you feel ready to start properly planning, then initiation is over.

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Your Strategy Planning Meeting Agenda (with Template)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have you been asked to pull together a strategy planning meeting agenda? In this article, I’ll explain what a strategic planning meeting can cover and share a sample agenda you can customize for your strategy sessions. Strategy planning doesn’t just happen.

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Project Initiation Checklist: The Perfect Way To Start Your Projects

Proofhub

As you start your project, you need to take the initiative on the preparatory work, from preparing the scope, estimating the costs, assigning resources, and creating a project timeline, to getting sign-off on the key performance indicators.

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Strategy Framework

Techno-PM

A strategy framework is a foundational tool that provides a logical and ordered structure for thinking about and developing strategic plans. The Chaos Theory of Strategy is a newer framework that considers the dynamism of the environment and the ever-changing nature of business competition.

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The Secret to Building Successful Digital Sales Programs in 2022 and Beyond

Speaker: Jordi Gili, International Speaker, Managing Director at Execus, Professor Geneva Business School

In this session Prof. Jordi Gili with the Geneva Business School will share key learnings from digital sales programs and will hint at the Key Performance Indicators that Digital Sales programs should aspire to in 2023.

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Creating a Positive Workplace: Strategies for Building Trust & Respect

Proofhub

This article explores six strategies that help foster trust and respect among employees and result in a more positive workplace. 6 Strategies for Building Trust & Respect A culture of trust and respect results in a more engaged, productive, and positive workforce.

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8 Essential Time Management Strategies

LiquidPlanner

Creating effective time management strategies is all about prioritizing the most important tasks and accomplishing them in less time, while maintaining a high quality bar. This is one of the most critical time management strategies to master. . Key time management strategy takeaways.

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Strategy, How to Write a Project Charter, and ChatGPT

The Strategic Project Manager

This post looks at the major elements of the Project Charter and how they link back to strategy. And it defines the PM responsibilities and provides an initial project org chart.

2023 96
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Strategy, PM, and the W. Edwards Deming PDCA Cycle

The Strategic Project Manager

It can help you to structure initiatives to solve problems and seize opportunities. This post looks at what the PDCA cycle is, dives into the specifics of the four steps, looks at pros and cons, and enumerates where it can enhance strategy and project management efforts.

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Psychological Safety & Employee Wellbeing: Building a Healthy & Accountable Work Environment

Speaker: Tracie Sponenberg - Chief People Officer, The Granite Group & Melissa Doman M.A. Organizational Psychologist, Mental Health at Work Specialist, Former Clinical Mental Health Therapist

In this webinar, Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer, and Melissa Doman, Organizational Psychologist & Mental Health at Work Specialist, will discuss methods for developing and maintaining employee wellness and psychological safety in your workforce!

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Blue Ocean Leadership: The Secret to Blue Ocean Strategy Execution

The Strategic Project Manager

The Blue Ocean Strategy framework is unique in that it incorporates execution into the strategy. By contrast, most strategy frameworks are just that – strategy, and strategy alone. Create – clarifying organizational strategy and where team members fit.

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What Is a Turnaround Strategy? Tough Prescriptions. Tough Projects.

The Strategic Project Manager

This post asks what is a turnaround strategy, outlines structured approaches to turnarounds, and reviews implementing through a focused and well-structured portfolio of programs and projects. What Is a Turnaround Strategy? Something to precede another initiative?

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Using Hassle Maps for Strategy and Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

This post examines what Hassle Maps are, their usefulness, examples, and the application of Hassle Maps as a tool for strategy and project management. The concept of a Hassle Map was initiated by Adrian Slywotsky as an extension of his work on Value Migration. Hassle Maps and Strategy.

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How Digital Transformation Can Affect Leadership Strategies

Proofhub

As such, you need to come up with ways to overcome such challenges and also to have the right methods of implementing digital transformation strategies. So, what impacts does the digital transformation have on leadership strategies?

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Strategy Implementation Needs Great Portfolio Management

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

In recent years, portfolio management has evolved from an administrative process, in which projects are selected and prioritised, to one of the key ways in which organisations can focus on strategy implementation. This is achieved, in the most part, through the enhancement of strategic dialogue amongst the management team and, most crucially, the alignment of projects around the most critical strategic initiatives. Portfolio Management Strategy Execution

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The Low Code No Code Strategy

The Strategic Project Manager

This post explores what low code no code Citizen Development is, and it’s impact on strategy and the practice of project management. Strategically driven projects – These are disruptive, breakthrough initiatives.

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How to connect business strategy with project management

Moira Alexander

The foundation for overall business success and project initiatives starts here, making it imperative for executive sponsors to be in sync with project leadership out of the gate. Think of the strategy and PM connection in construction terms, where the step of pouring footings and foundations needs to adequately support all other work that follows and ultimately the final structure -- in this analogy the final structure are the end goals.

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PM, Strategy, and Key Resources – Business Model Canvas

The Strategic Project Manager

This post provides an overview of the Key Resources block on the business model canvas, provides related considerations for organizational strategy, and outlines the impact on project management. Strategy – Ensure the Right Key Resources.

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Business strategy meeting

Techno-PM

A business strategy meeting is a get-together between the key members of a company who discuss and make decisions about the organization's strategic direction. Operational meetings may also be used to provide employees with updates on changes or new initiatives within the organization.

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How to Write Results-Oriented Goals

Project Risk Coach

Seek to understand how the project relates to the strategy of the organization. 1=Initiation Project Integration ManagementI see a common problem when reviewing project charters. The goals are activity-oriented, rather than results-oriented.

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How to Connect Emerging Risks, Strategies, and Project Management [Snippet]

Project Risk Coach

How to Connect Emerging Risks, Strategies, and Project Management. Once senior management has clearly defined their long-term and short-term goals, projects may be initiated to support the operational strategies. The post How to Connect Emerging Risks, Strategies, and Project Management [Snippet] appeared first on Is your organization identifying and managing emerging risks? Photo courtesy of Adobe Stock.

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Michael Porter on Strategy and Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

Michael Porter, top Harvard Business School Professor and one of the most well-known long time strategy experts in the world, spoke at the PMO Symposium by the Project Management Institute (PMI) a few years ago. On Misconceptions About Strategy. Actions flow out of strategy.

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12 Effective Strategies To Drive Sales Productivity in 2021

nTask

So let’s dive into the 12 most effective strategies. Gathering feedback from employees can save you time from guessing at sales strategies that might help. Not only will asking them directly help you craft a better sales strategy, but your team will feel included in the process.

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How to Create a Content Plan for Your Content Strategy

ProjectManager.com

All of these channels are part of a content strategy that directs the content creation efforts you execute to meet the company’s marketing goals. A content plan, on the other hand, is the blueprint that defines the assets and steps needed to implement your content strategy.

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Managing Team Conflict and Strategies for Conflict Resolution

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, we’ll look at the causes of team conflict on projects, how to identify conflict and resolution strategies so you can all get back to work. First up, the Concept or Initiation Phase. Here are some project management conflict resolution strategies. Project management conflict resolutions strategies you can use that fit into this Avoiding mode: Postpone the conversation until there is a better time to have it. Projects can be a hotbed of conflict.

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Executing a Blue Ocean Strategy with Solid Project Management

The Strategic Project Manager

The Blue Ocean strategy framework has become popular since around 2005, on the initial publication of “ Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant “, by W. The Basics of Blue Ocean Strategy.

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Six Reasons Why Strategy Execution Goes Wrong And How To Recover

Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

You’ve created a robust corporate strategy and aligned all your projects. Now all you have to do is sit back and wait for your strategy to be delivered, right? In this article, we share six reasons why strategy execution might go wrong and how you can address them. First, strategic execution can fail because the work the business is doing does not take it closer to the strategy. However, as a recap: Set your strategy.

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Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Project Management Strategies

LiquidPlanner

If you’re the project manager implementing the current year’s plan, you’ll apply a bottom-up approach to validate the timeline and your initial budget assumptions. ” The post Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Project Management Strategies appeared first on LiquidPlanner. Project Management Teams Tips bottom-up project management Project management professionals project management strategies project plan project planning project schedule teamwork top-down

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Proven Corporate Strategies To Ensure Employees’ Productivity

nTask

Thus, to help you tackle the same, read about the top strategies that have worked for many employees to keep their remote teams productive. These communication tools , such as Slack , that allow you to either initiate instant messaging between employees. Productivity.

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Developing Internal Mobility Strategy: 6 Best Practices

Teamweek

During unpredictable economic times, an internal mobility talent strategy helps HR retain talent and save on hiring costs. Why you can’t leave internal mobility out of your talent strategy. What do employees gain from internal mobility strategies?

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Ransomware Defense Tools and Strategies for Schools

Brad Egeland

3 attack prompted the district to initiate a systemwide reset of more than 600,000 passwords and a ransom demand remains outstanding. ​ Absent these tools, strategies and adequate staff, schools will remain a frequent target for cybercriminals.

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Project Management, Product Management, and Strategy

The Strategic Project Manager

Here are some observations: Project management involves managing initiatives of shorter duration – usually up to two years – with a clearly defined end point. Strategy and Project vs Product Management. Strategy guides both project and product management.

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9 Steps to an Effective Talent Assessment Strategy

Teamweek

Sifting through bad-fit applications is a tiring process – but it doesn’t need to be with the right talent assessment strategy and a few skills tests. So, how do you create a bulletproof talent assessment strategy from scratch?

2023 52
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10 Ways to Engage Project Stakeholders

Project Risk Coach

The stakeholder engagement plan is "a component of the project management plan that identifies the strategies and actions required to promote productive involvement of stakeholders in project or program decision making and execution ( PMBOK® Guide – Sixth Edition, Page 723 )."

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