6.1. Managing Business and Cultural Change

Establishing enterprise-wide project management (EWPM) practices as a mind set improves the communication and cooperation. The value of EWPM is that it focuses the enterprise’s resources on the leadership’s vision, mission, strategy, and objectives. This focus enables the organization to translate the objectives into executable portfolios, programs, projects, and processes. Establishing EWPM requires successfully making organizational and cultural changes, because it affects every level of the organization from the boardroom to the plant floor.

Implementing EWPM is not easy, but the rewards are significant. The entire organization must recognize and adopt new attitudes that embrace project business ...

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