Canadian West Coast Chapter Annual Conference

Vision To Profit - Aligning Projects to Corporate Strategy

Leaders define vision. A business turns vision into profit. Project Managers drive the projects that build the capabilities transforming businesses. Ergo, Project Managers are enablers for turning vision into profit. To achieve this, project managers, like you, must build value-driven organizations that are seasoned yet adaptive, structured yet agile, pragmatic yet innovative. It is not a simple feat. Four basic tenents allow you to do this:

Strategy to meets corporate goals drives all of your work.

Work cannot start until the people to complement the strategy are in place.
Processes need to fit the individual projects (not too lean, not to heavy, and sized for each project).
Technology is only a tool to improve efficiency—it is only a means to an end.