Translating Corporate Strategy into Project Strategy

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Case Study: How a Business Group in a Global Financial Services Company Moves Strategy into Projects

The group is part of a large, complex company with operations in a number of countries and continents. The process of moving strategy from the corporate to program and project level within it is very involved. A business enterprise model or an equivalent does not appear to be used and the way the group's business management processes interconnect with the global project management processes is not visible to the same level of detail as that used in the global project management process. The stages and processes used by the group to translate corporate strategy into project strategy for major (strategic) programs and projects and to ...