Strategic Management – Agilitek Corporation

Align Portfolio Execution to Organizational Vision

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The Standard for Portfolio Management (2013) lists vision, mission, and organizational strategy and objectives as the drivers of portfolio management. Portfolio management is a coordinated management of a collection of programs, projects and operations components. As part of portfolio management, it is imperative that the daily execution of various components continue to align with the organizational vision.

While on-going operations are recurring activities which produce value, programs and projects increase value production capability. All of these activities must be initiated, planned and executed in tandem to ensure that they continue to deliver the strategic objectives.

Elements of the portfolio are planned investments of the organization so they must be quantifiably measurable. Each item must be constantly measured, ranked and prioritized. Lower ranked portfolio components will obviously receive lesser attention when competing with higher ranked portfolio components.

Organizational Strategy Reflection

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It is one thing to define an organizational strategy and quite another to deliver it.

Organizational Strategy With your executive team, reflect on the following statements:

We have an action plan to rectify deficiencies in strategy definition, alignment, governance and execution
Senior executives and delivery teams have a shared understanding of how to achieve strategic alignment
Strategic goals are clear and measurable, and wide enough to remain valid for the next three years

On a scale of 1 (fully disagree) to 10 (fully agree), where do you stand?

If you rated each statement around 6 or 7, then your organization is not doing too badly. However, there are still plenty of room for improvement. Conversely, if at least one statement was rated as 5 or lower, then examine how your organizational strategy aligns (or not) with various strategic initiatives.