Comments on: Strategy Mapping Aligns (and Eliminates) Projects

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:57:41 +0000

Levi- recent CFO magazine (January 2008) has article on “the effort to combine governance, risk, and compliance into a single software platform”, under the title of “The Emergence of Convergence”, that seems to fit into this discussion of strategy, tactics and projects- as well as your area of compliance. Thanks.

By: LB

LB — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:59:39 +0000

Bob,

That would make much more sense.

Best,

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:42:12 +0000

Levi- thanks for commenting. I think this is a common problem. The previous post list goals, strategies that feed goals and then tactics that feed strategies. Hopefully it is the tactics, that are fairly well defined, that projects are defined for. Trying to tie projects to strategies IS too vague. If your company were to define clear tactics to support strategies do you think they could focus (eliminate/reduce size of projects) and execute strategies better?

By: LB

LB — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:23:37 +0000

Bob,

The problem I usually have is that the high level goals are so vague (make more money/quit losing clients/gain more clients) that most people can put together an argument as to why project X fits into one of the goals with no problem.

Best,