Chapters 2 3
Business Project Management
MGT 172
Chapter 2:
Organization Strategy and Project Selection
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Slide 1
Class Roadmap
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Slide 2
Strategic Management Process Overview
Strategic management is the process of assessing “what we are” and deciding and implementing “what we intend to be and how we are going to get there.”
Organizational strategy is implemented through projects.
Every project should have a clear link to the organization’s strategy.
April 8, 2010
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Slide 3
Driving Forces of the Organizational Strategy
Global Competition
Shortened Product Life Cycles
Industry Consolidation
Accountability
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Slide 4
The Strategic Management Process:
An Overview
Strategic Management
Provides the theme and focus of the future direction for the organization.
Responding to changes in the external environment—environmental scanning
Allocating scarce resources of the firm to improve its competitive position—internal responses to new action programs
Requires strong links among mission, goals, objectives, strategy, and implementation.
April 8, 2010
UCSD – MGT 172 - Business Project Management
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MGT 172
Chapter 2:
Organization Strategy and Project Selection
April 8, 2010
UCSD – MGT 172 - Business Project Management
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Slide 1
Class Roadmap
April 8, 2010
UCSD – MGT 172 - Business Project Management
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Slide 2
Strategic Management Process Overview
Strategic management is the process of assessing “what we are” and deciding and implementing “what we intend to be and how we are going to get there.”
Organizational strategy is implemented through projects.
Every project should have a clear link to the organization’s strategy.
April 8, 2010
UCSD – MGT 172 - Business Project Management
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Slide 3
Driving Forces of the Organizational Strategy
Global Competition
Shortened Product Life Cycles
Industry Consolidation
Accountability
April 8, 2010
UCSD – MGT 172 - Business Project Management
This information may not be used or reproduced without prior written approval of the authors.
Some content © 2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, All Rights Reserved
Slide 4
The Strategic Management Process:
An Overview
Strategic Management
Provides the theme and focus of the future direction for the organization.
Responding to changes in the external environment—environmental scanning
Allocating scarce resources of the firm to improve its competitive position—internal responses to new action programs
Requires strong links among mission, goals, objectives, strategy, and implementation.
April 8, 2010
UCSD – MGT 172 - Business Project Management
This information