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

Chapter 9. Conclusions

So, what can we conclude from this research?

Projects and project management are often said to be important-means of implementing strategy, but the way this happens in practice is rarely the subject of detailed review. We noted at the outset that there is little in the literature on how business strategy is translated into project terms.

Further, project strategy itself is not a well-researched or written-about topic. Surely, there should be a case for better understanding the way the project is to be developed and managed. After all, we should not just plunge into project execution.

If we could understand better how business strategy can be translated into project strategy, project management’s overall performance would ...