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Why Project Managers Need to Understand
the Strategic Management Process
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Why Project Managers Need to Understand the
Strategic Management Process
FIGURE 2.1
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Closely linked
toward future Mission
sucess of General
organization purpose
Goals
Implemen
-tation Global
(via target
projects) within
Strategic mission
Management
Objectives
Strategy Specific
To reach target to
objective goals
Mission
General
purpose Review and Define organization
mission
Why is needed?
Aimingat aligning project with strategic
goal and prioritized appropriately system.
Nostrong priority system linked to strategy
create problems
Benefits of Project Portfolio Management
FIGURE 2.5
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A Portfolio Management
System
Selection Criteria
Financial (when high level of confidence
with estimation of future cash flow):
payback, net present value (NPV), internal
rate of return (IRR)
Non-financial:
projects of strategic
importance to the firm (imposible to
measure)
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Financial Models
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Financial Models (contd)
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Example Comparing Two Projects
Using Payback Method
EXHIBIT 2.3a
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Example Comparing Two Projects
Using Net Present Value Method
EXHIBIT 2.3b
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Nonfinancial Strategic Criteria
Checklist Model
Uses a list of questions to review potential projects
and to determine their acceptance or rejection.
Fails to answer the relative importance or value of a
potential project and doesnt to allow for
comparison with other potential projects.
Project Screening Matrix project scoring
matrix
FIGURE 2.3
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Project Portfolio Matrix
capitalize
balance
eliminate balance
FIGURE 2.7
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Project Portfolio Matrix
Dimensions
Bread-and-butter Projects
Involve evolutionary improvements to current products and services.
Ex : software upgrade and manufacturing cost reduction efforts
Pearls
Represent revolutionary commercial opportunities using proven
technical advances.
Ex : next generation integrated circuit chip and subsurface imaging to
locate oil and gas.
Oysters
Involve technological breakthroughs with high commercial payoffs.
Ex : embryonic DNA treatment and new kinds of metal alloys.
White Elephants
Showed promise at one time but are no longer viable.
Ex : product for saturated market.
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Key Terms
Implementation gap
Net present value
Organizational politics
Payback
Priority system
Priority team
Project portfolio
Project screening matrix
Project sponsor
Sacred cow
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Strategic management process
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