Filling Execution Gaps: How Executives and Project Managers Turn Corporate Strategy into Successful Projects

Filling Execution Gaps: How Executives and Project Managers Turn Corporate Strategy into Successful Projects
Authors: Todd C. Williams
ISBN-10: 1501515209
ISBN-13: 9781501515200
Released: 2017-10-23
Print Length 页数: 240 pages
“I expected good,but this is great.” -Janet Pirus Phelps,Former CFO Papa Murphy’s Pizza
Gaps . . . holes in your organization where tasks fall and failure breeds. They inhibit your ability to implement strategic plans,lead people,and run successful projects. Daily,executives,middle managers,and project managers wrestle with “the big six”:
Absence of common understanding
Disengaged executive sponsors
Misalignment with goals
Poor change management
Ineffective governance
Lackluster leadership
Ignoring any of these gaps will hex any strategy or project. They regularly destroy hundreds of companies’ ability to turn their corporate vision into business value–taking careers with them.
Filling Execution Gaps addresses the sources of these gaps,and how to fill them. Without any one of these important functions,projects fail. Without change management,adoption suffers. Without common understanding,there is confusion. Without goals,business units,and capabilities aligned,execution falters. Without executive sponsorship,decisions languish. Too little governance allows bad things to happen,while too much governance creates overburdening bureaucracy. Without leadership at all levels of the organization,people are directionless.
Using decades of experience,years of research,and interviews with hundreds of business leaders,Todd Williams illustrates how to fill these gaps,meet corporate goals,and increase value.
Title Page
Copyri ght
Dedication
Contents
GAP-1: Common Understanding
GAP 2: Alignment between Corporate Goals and Projects
GAP 3: Engaged Executive Sponsors
GAP 4: Adoption and Change Management
GAP 5: Effective Governance
GAP 6: Project Leadership
PART 7: Pulling it all Together
Appendix A: Endnotes
Index