Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management: Bridging the Gaps Between Setting and Executing Strategy - Paperback

by Timothy J. Kloppenborg (Author), Laurence J. Laning (Author)

Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management is aimed at executive leaders of organizations. Leaders from all organizations will benefit from this book, but especially organizations that may have limited resources and bench strength.

This book instructs executive leadership teams on implementing strategy through identifying, selecting, prioritizing, resourcing, and governing an optimal combination of projects and other work. It also tells executives who serve as a sponsor or who have a project manager direct report what they need to do at each project stage. Advice is given to the executive who owns the project management competency for the company on utilizing input from customers, employees, and processes.

Much of the organization's work is dependent on information technology, and understanding and using information technology as a strategic weapon helps an organization become competitive and effectively implement their business strategies. All of these portfolio and project decisions need to be made based upon both qualitative and quantitative data using reliable analysis methods.

Author Biography

Timothy J .Kloppenborg is a professor emeritus from Xavier University Cincinnati, Ohio. He has authored over 100 publications. His ten other books include Contemporary Project Management, Project Leadership, and Project Management Essentials. Tim has consulted and trained with many organizations on six continents. His PhD in operations management is from the University of Cincinnati. He has served on a number of boards, having been president of several. He has been active at the Project Management Institute (PMI) for over 30 years and has been a certified project management professional (PMP) for 28 years. He is a retired USAFR officer.