In today’s project-driven economy, organisations rely on effective project management to achieve strategic goals, drive innovation, and sustain business growth. Project management is more than a management discipline; it supports organisational agility, collaboration, and high performance.
This two-day course provides practical, real-world insights into Strategic Enterprise Project Management (SEPM), equipping participants to align strategic goals with business plans and project objectives, optimise resources, manage risks, improve decision-making, and deliver greater business value. Participants will explore how people, processes, and technology can be integrated to strengthen execution in a dynamic VUCA and sustainability-focused environment.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain how project goals can be made strategically acceptable, financially sensible, and tactically viable.
- Recognise how SEPM improves project effectiveness and efficiency.
- Apply accelerated action learning tools to integrate people, processes, and planet for disciplined and timely execution.
- Prioritise stakeholder benefits realisation and business value innovation.
- Support organisational capability maturity and a high-performance innovation culture.
- Anticipate and manage strategic enterprise risks while balancing sustainable growth and the triple bottom line.
Key Topics
- Strategic alignment of projects with organisational goals.
- Translating strategy into prioritised programmes and projects.
- Strategic decision-making, team leadership, and project performance.
- Strategy execution frameworks, integrated tools, and balanced scorecards.
- Enterprise risk management, innovation, and sustainable business value.
Day 1: Aligning Strategy, Projects, and People
Morning Session
- Aligning projects with organisational strategy, business objectives, and operational objectives
- Aligning organisational values, mission, and vision to develop a coherent strategy centred on organisational capability
- Planning and implementing projects using SEPM principles, practices, and promises
- Translating strategy into a portfolio of prioritised programmes and projects
- Achieving triple constraints of schedule, cost, and specification
- Leveraging teamwork to achieve the triple bottom line of profit, people, and planet with purpose
- Case study and discussions
Afternoon Session
- Applying strategic decision-making to improve project performance and outcomes
- Facilitating internal and external teams to meet and exceed project expectations
- Determining the appropriate team composition based on project size, complexity, and competency requirements
- Evaluating project performance and driving continuous improvement for measurable business value
- Case study and discussions
Day 2: Strengthening Strategy Execution and Organisational Performance
Morning Session
- Four key success factors in strategy execution:
- Clarity in planning
- Converting strategy into achievable targets
- Prioritisation of resources
- Excellence in execution support
- Four barriers to successful strategy execution:
- Inadequate strategic planning
- Speed of strategic decisiveness
- Frequency of environmental turbulence
- Speed of organisational responsiveness
- Applying a holistic approach to SEPM using eight proven integrated tools to derive a coherent strategy
- Case study and discussions
Afternoon Session
- Measuring strategy implementation through an SEPM balanced scorecard covering:
- Innovation and growth
- Internal business processes
- Customer experience
- Sustainable financial performance
- Applying the eight fits when converting strategy into prioritised projects:
- Strategic
- Leadership
- Structural
- Cultural
- Capability
- Organisational development
- Communications
- AI technology
- Strengthening execution through discipline, accountability, organisational capability, a common language for work, and AI technology
- Applying different leadership approaches according to project type:
- Team leadership for lightweight projects
- Transformational leadership for medium-weight projects
- Adaptive leadership for heavyweight projects
- Servant leadership to energise teams and pursue stretched targets
- Case study and wrap-up