Strategic Thinking: An Efficient Method to take the bull by its horns After expending days in planning, attending hours of meetings, answering hundreds of emails, managing the team and fighting with day-to-day fires, you finally launched the project. Congrats! Now, you are expecting the winning results.
In the past, the project success is considered as the project completed before the deadline and within the budget. Now, it’s about syncing the project management with organizational strategy amid of operational decision-making and tactical leadership. Alas! Most of the project managers are found saying “We have always done it.” The problem lies in this thinking is that they work on ‘What’ part and ‘How’ part is least focused where the essence of strategic thinking lies. It indicates the project management is disconnected from the strategy and thereby the gap between the lofty ambitions of project manager and the staff completing the work cannot be fulfilled. Before we get into it, let’s dig deep into the lacklustre vocabulary STRATEGIC THINKING: Strategic thinking is a fundamental driver of the company which opens up the new opportunities with provocative dialog, strategic planning, and broader perspective. It is regarded as the advanced version of business planning that aims to communicate the vision to staff, apt analyzation of the resources, best prioritization of the tasks, and the creation of an executable action plan and get the project done with higher efficiency.