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Strategic Project Management
Individual Report | “Projectification of the organisational world has resulted in apparent agreement that projects and project management are an efficient means of implementing organisational strategy.”(Haniff & Fernie 2009) | C11SP STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT |

Course Tutor:Dr. Rhys Rowland-JonesSubmitted by: Tilek Mounaswami 10166896511/21/2010 |

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Section 1: Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….3
Section 2: Structuring of Organizational Strategy…..…………………………………..……………………………………………3
Section 3: Project and Project management…………………………………………………………………………………………….3
Section 4: Aligning projects with organizational strategy…………………………………………….…………….…………….4
Section 5: Understanding and Differentiating project management and program management……………..5
Section 6: Bridging the Gap between Organizational strategy and Strategic Alignment of Projects And Project Management………………………………………………………………..……………………………………..6

Section 7: Conclusion and Recommendations……………………….………………………………………………………………..7
Section 8: References……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...8

Section 1
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Introduction
Recent conditions in business environment have seen vigorous advancements in technology and continuous changes in strategies. An organization is set to achieve its objective through the strategies adopted and alignment of its strategies to reach that objective. The ability to define the standards to achieve its objective through projects and project managers is the need for



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