Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy: Realizing Corporate Strategy Through Project Management

Introduction

The principal aim of all the case studies was to obtain evidence and to document the processes, practices, and people factors that each company uses to translate corporate strategy into project strategy. The UCL research team (the authors) carried out a number of semi-structured interviews with senior managers from the business and project management areas of each of the participating companies, using sets of questions given in advance of the interviews. Detailed notes of the interviews and information extracted from each company’s documentation were analyzed and used to compile case study reports. Confidential copies of each report were sent separately to each company to verify the accuracy, validity, and analysis of the data and ...