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IMPLEMENTATION LEADERSHIP WANTED… IMPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT MISSING

The slogan “Replace management with leadership” has unfortunately echoed through executive corridors in Danish companies for a long time, but it should be put on a distant shelf when the strategy is to be implemented...

THE TOP EXECUTIVE AND STRATEGY EXECUTION

Strategies only truly prove good or bad once they have been implemented – but do top executives work in a focused way with strategy execution?

A MONKEY STORY

It is a classic to let a monkey compete against a human to see who is best at investing in the stock market. We ask provocatively: are leaders more nuanced than monkeys when they develop and execute their strategy?

Be a Secure Base for Your Employees

Since it is not possible to change other people, leaders must start with themselves. They must work on their mindset and find behaviours that help them regain their employees’ trust, thereby creating the basis for a new dynamic in their organisation.

IT IS PEOPLE WHO IMPLEMENT THE STRATEGY

We are fully aware that strategy must be sharpened through choices and trade-offs, and that this means someone will have to do something different from what they do today. But how, specifically, do we do this—engage people, create and sustain the new—so that the strategy becomes embedded?

IS YOUR ORGANISATION THRIVING, OR HAS IT STAGNATED?

The lumberjack’s tools must be in order before he goes into the forest. In the same way, the top executive must have a finely tuned organisation that can both deliver short-term results (day-to-day operations) and implement the company’s long-term goals (the strategy). The organisation is the top executive’s key tool...

THE CHANGE LEADER

This article provides the reader with a basic introduction to personal and organisational means that create successful changes - and successful change leaders...

Realising value to the satisfaction of stakeholders
Project management has long been regarded as a professional qualification, on a par with other technical disciplines, or as a general leadership capability. In fact, project management is neither a technical nor a managerial discipline – it is both.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN RESEARCH PROJECTS

Project management has not yet found its place in the research world. In some cases, it is experienced as though project management is written into applications for the sake of the funders. At other times, it is seen merely as a heavy bureaucratic burden. See the myths about project management in research projects here.

Myths about project portfolio management

There are many myths associated with project portfolio management. See 5 of them here and find out whether they hold true in reality.

Project performance
Project Performance is about overview, prioritisation, progress, and significant value creation across the company’s entire project portfolio.