Alignment of Project Management with Business Strategy

Abstract

Project management is the use of different techniques to deliver project with meeting required objectives within defined constraints. Corporate strategy is plan by which organizations aspire to achieve organizational business goals. In recent times, project management is also used to achieve organizational goals by aligning project management with business strategy of an organization. This research is carried to explore the effects of aligning project management with business strategy on projects and organizations. Case studies were carried out in three organizations; one from public sector; one from private and one from semi-government organization. Results of this research revealed that alignment of business strategy with project management is beneficial for both organization and projects especially in terms of organizational growth and project success.

Connecting Enterprise Architecture and Project Portfolio Management

“…"PPM advances organizational capabilities" (PMI, 2014, p. 1). Projects align to the business by meeting organizational goals and by considering organizational constraints (Chaudhry, 2015). PPM should evaluate these constraints to make rational investment decisions.…”

Big data, 4IR and electronic banking and banking systems applications in South Africa and Nigeria

“…It evaluated the production of knowledge on banking services and banking systems in Africa, based on the results of scientific publications. One challenge of mobile banking is the lack of a strong network infrastructure (Chaudhry, 2015), and this can pose a serious threat to economic activities, especially within the rural/farming towns in Nigeria that have no easy access to physical banking premises. Despite con-siderable efforts and outputs on banking services and electronic accounting information systems, several gaps have not been covered exhaustively in the literature.…”