OBJECTIVES AND ROADMAPS

Ensuring resources are efficiently allocated to projects and investments that enable corporate objectives.

To execute strategy and deliver targeted outcomes, targets must be clearly defined. Every resource in the organization should have a shared focus on specific, measurable outcomes that have a clear execution plan within a targeted timeframe.

Roadmapping translates targets into prioritized, sequenced, action plans that guide resource allocation (budget, focus, human capital) across the enterprise.

To align resources to projects and investments that enable corporate objectives, Attainment will:

  • Clarify corporate objectives and align projects and investments

  • Outline requirements for achieving objectives

  • Prioritize functional requirements, identify cross-functional dependencies, and sequence projects and investments

RESOURCES AND CONTENT

Best practices for aligning projects to corporate strategy

Highlights:

  • Many organizations say they have a clearly-articulated strategic direction but not all communicate that strategy well to the employees who must implement it. These companies are like a body whose brain is unable to tell it what to do.

  • Lack of knowledge about one’s own company is a primary reason for project failure. Companies who do not know their starting position build future corporate plans on shifting sand. Furthermore, leadership often does not understand what is wrong or how to distinguish what needs fixing.

  • Projects that are not clearly aligned to corporate objectives may be completed ‘successfully’ by project management standards (on time, on budget, to spec) but considered failures because they did not address a business need. This issue can be alleviated by tying strategic planning to portfolio selection and project execution.