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Advanced & Specialised Project Management
Aligning Project Management with Organisational Strategy
Ensure your project has credibility by aligning it with your organisational goals.
This Course is Perfect for:
Exploring how and why organisational decisions are made
Aligning your projects to the overall business strategy
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You Will Learn to:
Understand and support top-level strategy formulation
Link organisational strategy from business strategy to portfolio development and 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
Course Overview
In today’s highly competitive environment, it is essential that a project manager thinks strategically about how projects contribute to organisational success and ultimately, to business level success. This course gives you an in-depth analysis of the aligning process, from business strategy formation to portfolio development. Learn how to link your projects to corporate strategy and manage the expectations of stakeholders and projects heavyweights.
Course Topics
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Organisational Strategy in Context Strategy defined
Strategy as a way to achieve organisational success
Paradigm shifts and their impact—how change influences strategy
Forces for business change
The impact of organisational constraints on strategy
Organisational Strategy: Approaches and Techniques Strategy as a key to organisational success
Elements of a successful strategy
The relationship between strategy and achievability
Strategy assessments
Classic approaches and techniques for level-setting strategic thinking
Towards setting up a culture of strategic thinking
Portfolio Management: Strategic Context Defining a portfolio
Identifying projects included in a portfolio
The impact of portfolio management on strategy
Challenges and benefits of portfolio management
Influential roles in portfolio management
Portfolio Set-up and Maintenance Setting up a successful project portfolio
Organisational influences of portfolios
Generating potential portfolio projects
Steps in selecting portfolio projects
Integrating new projects into an existing portfolio
Project performance and project gateway reviews
The project filtering process
Strategic Project Management Strategic vs. classic project management
Aligning projects with strategy
The role of the project team
The importance of managing change that affects strategic projects
Anticipating and managing stakeholder expectations and resistance
Public Course Information
Duration: 3 days* PMI UK Members: ESI offers 3 spaces for this course at 25% discount. Please call now on
* Other PMI Members: PMI® members get 15% off this course.
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This course is available as in-house corporate training. Available to groups of 10 or more (please note this is a guideline). To find out more about corporate training for your organisation click here
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PMBOK® Guide knowledge areas
Project Integration Management
Project Scope Management
Project Time Management
Project Cost Management
Project Quality Management
Project Human Resource Management
Project Communications Management
Project Risk Management
Project Procurement Management
BABOK® Guide knowledge areas
Enterprise Analysis
Requirements Planning and Management
Requirements Elicitation
Requirements Communication
Requirements Analysis and Documentation
Solution Assessment and Validation
