Analysis of Leadership in Project Management for Business Strategy

This report delves into the crucial role of leadership in project management, emphasizing the strategic alignment of project portfolios with overall business objectives. It examines the challenges in strategy implementation, such as resource constraints, lack of support, and inadequate follow-ups, providing insights into how organizations can improve their ability to deliver strategies. The report highlights the importance of communication, evaluation, and the development of robust implementation structures to support programs and policies. It further analyzes the contributions of two students, Dan Williams and Justin Safee, who offer perspectives on the implementation process, critical success factors, and the need for effective portfolio management. Williams stresses the importance of sticking to basics and measuring KPIs, while Safee focuses on the development of effective project portfolios and the identification of performance indicators to achieve desired goals. The report concludes by emphasizing the significance of aligning projects with strategic goals and the need for continuous improvement in project management practices.

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Table of Contents
Strategy implementation..................................................................................................................2
Lacking resources........................................................................................................................2
Lack of support............................................................................................................................2
No follow-ups..............................................................................................................................2
The process to improve the abilities to deliver strategies................................................................2
Communication and evaluation...................................................................................................3
Development of an implementation structure..............................................................................3
Development of implementation to support programs and policies............................................3
Feedbacks........................................................................................................................................4
First post of Dan Williams...........................................................................................................4
Second post of Justin safee..........................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Strategy implementation
Lacking resources
According to (Howell, et al., 2014) organizations generates strategy but fail to account for the
sources that are necessary for actual implementation. This identifies difficulties and makes the
implementation stage of management the most difficult. The process of implementation is
difficult to phase of strategic management because a poorly defined implementation process
generates uncertainty and causes confusion and makes it hard and difficult to successfully
implement the approach.
Lack of support
The support of managers and employees is necessary for the successful implementation of the
strategy. Due to the lack of support in the organization employees in the organization do not
make the changes that are necessary for the adaption of strategy. This generates difficulties for
the implementation of the strategy.
No follow-ups
The largest difficulties occur due to no follow-ups. This happens as organization enact a strategy
but fail to implement and check. If this has been implemented than makes the process of
implementation hard as there is no mode to ensure that it has been successful (Wolford, 2015).
The process to improve the abilities to deliver strategies
Organizations make strategic choices for activities to implement and deliver the vision.
Organizations choose strategic portfolio to support the success of the organization (Raymond,
2017). Every work of an organization is a part of a portfolio that includes activities of businesses
as usual and transform initiative like improving services of customers, driving growth and
entering a new marketplace. This is all about to focus on the best resource to meet the strategic
objective and consider the portfolio of business as activities make tradeoffs across the portfolio.
Critically this includes the process for selection of difficult choices to unlock resources with

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better activities as aligned with strategic success. This portfolio focuses on attention that is
necessary to turn to execution. Performance is monitored with the metrics consistent with
strategic objectives as provides surety to align with strategies and operations. This is the
responsibility of the team manager to ensure that operations and strategies are integrated and
aligned.
Communication and evaluation
This is necessary to evaluate the plan regarding initiatives, performances, and budgets. This is
possible that there is still a need for input to crop up during evaluation that missed during the
formulation of strategy (Spector & Jack, 2014). There are many sub-steps can be included:
 Alignment of strategies by initiatives
 Effective communication with the clarity of goals
 Alignment of budgets with objectives and annual goals
Development of an implementation structure
 This is necessary to formulate procedures and plans of work regarding the implementation of
tactics in strategies.
 This is necessary to establish a coordination or link mechanism among many departments to
facilitate the delegation of responsibility and authority.
 There are the operational tasks to evaluate the current structure of staffing that outsource some
actions instead.
Development of implementation to support programs and policies
 Strategy encouraging policies refers to constant improvement programs that are employed in aid
of implementation.
 Developing a monitoring system and performance tracking system to measure the performance
of each employee, section, unit, division, and department.
 Developing a system of a performance management system that provides surety and a direct link
to accomplish the results that indicate tracking of performance and system of monitoring.

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 Developing a system of feedback and information collects feedback and use strategy evaluation.
Feedbacks
First post of Dan Williams
Process of implementation is very tedious, because of this organization skip many steps to that
are important to execute projects and plans. Skipping step is not an effective way to handle the
process of implementation. This report highlights that an organization should stick to basics.
This is one of the effective ways to handle a higher success rate of implementation. Evaluation of
critical success factor is completed by correct measurements. This also represents KPI’s.
Organizations use the structure of KPI to measure productivity. One of the examples of this is to
not avoid dealing with CFS and quantitative measurement for the evaluation of CFS. This also
points out in the field of sales to stick on the basics. This requires a more running and
brainpower for planning as it is an effective way of planning everything. I have seen and
analyzed many strategies for producing products and services that become worst because of the
process. Organizations launch many products but not follows a plan to make a successful
product. This presents a lack of communication toward its base of customer. Managers present
good ideas for the organization but not takes steps to keep close engagement with customers
directly. Many products and services have a good position of sound but never took off. This
presents the gape of measuring the success factors of a product. Dan Williams post has
highlighted good facts with the post. There is some gap in the sequences of sentences that have
been corrected. This post has highlighted important points that are necessary for sequence. Dan
Williams has referred flow to maintain the understanding of the report. This post has supported
to maintain the structure of report with a presentation of KPI structure to handle the
implementation process. The corporate strategy supports to launch and develop product
successful. This report highlights the gape of not initiating the steps for close engagement with
customers directly. This report suggests to have a proper process of measuring the factor of
success for a product.
Second post of Justin safee
The following report outline that organizations are failing to deliver on the strategies because of
the poor management portfolio. The further report includes that the organization develops an

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effective strategy but has a gap to develop an effective portfolio to achieve desired goals. This
included that development of an effective portfolio is difficult for many organization as it breaks
punctuality of function that is necessary to achieve a goal. These functions are indicators of
performance that are necessary to achieve goals. This is necessary to identify the performance
indicators. This should be done before the indicators organized in a portfolio plan and developed
into a project that can achieve the desired deliverables. This is part of the effective management
of the project. It is also a part of effective project management and managers of the project use
these statistics to define and improve the project for its strategic goals. Organizations that desire
to improve its delivery of strategy should adopt these processes to organize and prioritize these
solutions, deliverables and eliminate unattainable process that makes no sense for business.
Organization after completing these process will have a clear set of objectives for a project by
identifying critical elements of the project that are necessary for a project. Justine safee has a
minor gap in consistency. This has been identified by him and corrected with the proper
presentation of sequence toward the concept of a project report. It has been arranged correctly by
solving minor errors of grammars, formatting, and punctuation of words. Student has highlighted
many changes in the situation with the reference of example to support and identify portfolio
plan to attain desired deliverables. This post of student supports the objectives for a project that
are necessary elements of the project.

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References
Howell, J. L., Crosier, B. S. & Shepperd, J. A., 2014. Resources of Management. Journal of
Research in Personality, 50(08), pp. 102-109.
Raymond, N., 2017. Gaining a Competitive Advantage. I Ed. New York: Springer.
Spector, J. & Jack, M., 2014. Communication and Technology. III Ed. New York: Springer.
Wolford, L., 2015. Follow up. The Journal of Business Ethics, 73(05), pp. 952-960.