Strategic Project Management Transformation

In today's changing and competitive economic environment, CEOs, corporate executives, and shareholders are no longer strictly concerned with how well a project was executed even if it was finished on time and on budget. Most projects are now being viewed as strategic investments with the primary concern being the value that a project contributed to the company's bottom line. Project benefit attainment usually occurs after the project team has disbanded and handed over the project deliverables to the operational teams. It is in this transition and subsequent operation where much value is lost and the truly important business benefits that could have been achieved are not. This book demonstrates how to transform this trend of project management failure and sub-optimization into strategic and financial project management success. It shows project managers and business professionals how to establish processes that extend beyond closeout and enable stakeholders and operational teams to continue measuring and optimizing business value until all of a project's objectives have been achieved or exceeded, thereby maximizing financial returns, beneficial change and competitive advantage for their organizations.

Marc Resch is a business and technology strategy professional with more than 20 years of proven success in designing and implementing business strategies; developing and deploying business-wide program management office and governance processes; and managing world-class business operations. Mr. Resch is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), and also maintains a certification in the process-oriented IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL). Marc is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, received a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of North Carolina and received a Masters in Science (MS) from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey. He is an adjunct professor at Centenary College in New Jersey and works as a management consultant for the firm, Booz and Company.