42# - The first Strategy Implementation Playbook is out!
Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez
World Champion in Project Management | Thinkers50 | CEO & Founder | Business Transformation | PMI Fellow & Past Chair | Professor | HBR Author | Executive Coach
I have always believed that strategy implementation is the next step for many project management professionals. As many strategic objectives, like business expansions, or sustainability transformations, require projects to be achieved, there is an obvious link between strategy implementation and projects. Yet, ten years ago, there was very little research, literature, executive education, and professional certifications in this space.
"Implementing strategy is a rare and highly appreciated skillset that sets apart the most successful and influential leaders in business."
That is why I have dedicated a big part of my research and work to explain the connection between these two core disciplines and practices. To highlight this nexus, I titled my first book, which strongly emphasized project management, "The Focused Organization, How Concentrating on a Few Key Initiatives Can Dramatically Improve Strategy Execution." Talking to many senior leaders, I noticed that strategic initiatives and strategy implementation resonated much more than project management.
“You can outsource the crafting of the strategy but not its implementation.”
Following this quest, while Chairman of the Project Management Insitute in 2016, I was keen on launching the Brightline Initiative, which brought project management and PMI into new well-respected business and leadership forums such as the Global Peter Drucker Forum and the Thinkers50 gala.
In 2017, Robin Speculand and I co-founded the Strategy Implementation Institute with the ambition of helping to close the strategy implementation knowledge gap. We spent two years developing a modern and hands-on strategy implementation coursor everyone to learn this highly demanded competency, which hundreds of professionals have already followed and achieved practitioner certification (currently, there is a 10% discount for those that subscribe in September).
A few days ago, we published the first "Strategy Implementation Playbook - A Step by Step Guide," a learning roadmap for leaders, managers, and professionals seeking to overcome the challenges of traditional implementations, along with the significantly more complex obstacles involved with digital implementation. You can get a copy on Amazon.
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In parallel, I have also just released my fourth LinkedIn Learning course, an introduction to strategy implementation and a high-level summary of the strategy implementation professional online course. You can follow it here: A Modern Guide to Strategy Implementation.
That is the update for now; curious to hear about
your experience in strategy implementation and how it connects to project management.
Thanks for reading, and do not hesitate to reach out to share your views and suggestions.
Hasta la vista!
Antonio
Turn Strategic Goals into Real Results. Consultant/Trainer, Logical Framework Expert
2 年I love how you are championing project management, and moving it into the prominent space it deserves. Your new book is a perfect companion to my STRATEGIC PROJECT MANAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE. Rock on you project rock star!
Assistant to the President-Northeast Campus TCCD
2 年A valuable course with content explained easily for application????
Business and Technology Strategist | 20+ years of experience in Consulting & Operations | Expert in Wardley Maps | Emergent Strategy | Values Chain Discovery | Speaker & Author
2 年It's true, there are many planning strategy workbooks and few focused on execution. There is always a gap between strategy and execution, while it never should be like that. I'm a program manager with wide experience in Wardley Maps, always willing to learn other perspectives. Looking forward to learn more about it. Will read it
Managing Partner, Causeway Consulting
2 年Congratulations on this, I really look forward to reading it. My MSc dissertation title was “Why don’t we learn to connect strategy with projects” so it is of particular interest. I am a consultant working with organisations across sectors and training in project management and I have found that an organisational wide collaborative leadership approach which could offer improvement is often lacking. I think a key issue is that middle management is a problematic link between strategy and execution (constrained by leadership culture and skills gaps). I have seen very little practical guidance on strategic implementation in the context of projects and I think this is an essential companion to current project management literature. Thank you!
Director / PMO / Site Head Operations / CMOs, CDMOs, OEMs, 3rd Parties / Strategic Planning / Global Product Development / Strategy Alliance / Business Dev / Program Management / Pharma Healthcare Biotech / Lean
2 年Dear Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez, congrats for the post. For me it is impossible to be successful in #strategy implementation without applying good project management practices in all the initiatives that are part of your strategy deployment. To understand the relation between all of them and the impact that one may have in another is key to deliver main goals of your roadmap. I do not get tired of repeting to all the Project Managers I collaborate with in our daily work how important is to take the time to sit with their teams to define togehter how we will deliver our goals, and so our Company strategy. At the end it is all about people and there is where #projectmanagement is key.