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

Chapter 7. Survey and Findings: How Organizations Move Strategy From Corporate to Projects

The previous case studies provide a rich qualitative context in which to explore how companies do, in fact, move from corporate strategy to program and project strategy, and whether they do so as we hypothesized in Chapter 1. Since the data sample presented is obviously small, and to provide a bigger data sample, we carried out a survey of the way members in several PMI European chapters moved from corporate strategy to program and project strategy.

A series of thirty-two questions were developed and used to examine the processes, practices, and people issues involved in moving strategy from the corporate level to projects. This studied covered business ...