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

Roles, Responsibilities, and Competencies for Moving Strategy

The company uses a competency framework, which includes competencies to manage strategy. Project board chairmen, development managers, and project leaders all have defined accountabilities, roles, and responsibilities, some of which have been mentioned above (in relation to the project board process and business and project strategy). Moreover, the company uses matrices to specifically and comprehensively define the accountable (A), responsible (R), consult (C), and inform (I) roles for those involved in each stage of the major project process.

An example of a matrix for the “Receive project information” sub-process (see Figure 5.7) is shown in Table 5.3. This example, adapted by ...