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Strategy implementation and project management

Tony Grundy
- 01 Feb 1998 - 
- Vol. 16, Iss: 1, pp 43-50
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A number of tools from strategic management, value management and from organizational change can be imported into project management to enrich traditional techniques considerably, particularly when applied to complex, multi-functional projects which are entailed when attempting to turn business strategy into implementation.
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This article is published in International Journal of Project Management.The article was published on 1998-02-01. It has received 156 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Project management triangle & OPM3.

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The Theory and Practice of Change Management

John Hayes
TL;DR: A core textbook for all modules in change management, John Hayes examines and applies all of the key theories on change to organisational settings as mentioned in this paper, allowing students to identify change and experience various outcomes based on real-world scenarios.
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The influence of business strategy on project portfolio management and its success — A conceptual framework

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the linkage between business strategy, project portfolio management, and business success to close the gap between strategy formulation and implementation and found some supporting evidence of a positive relationship between isolated concepts, but so far there is no coherent and integral framework covering the whole cycle from strategy to success.
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Programme management: a critical review

TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of standard program management approaches is presented, pointing out that there is an excessive control focus, insufficient flexibility in the context of an evolving business strategy, and ineffective co-operation between projects within the programme.
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Moving from Corporate Strategy to Project Strategy

TL;DR: In this paper, a dearth of management writing around strategy tends to cover the practices at the corporate and business level; however, there is a lack of writing about how corporate strategy gets implemented by projec...
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Making strategy work: A literature review on the factors influencing strategy implementation

TL;DR: Nine crucial factors for strategy implementation that are frequently discussed in the literature as well as two approaches of aggregating and relating relevant factors are found.
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