Eyes on the Big Picture

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Project management leaders must see the links and barriers between strategy and execution, bring context to data, and communicate up, down and across their organizations, says Tim Wasserman, director of the Stanford Advanced PM program. Here he discusses the program’s Strategic Execution Framework.

Tim Wasserman is chief learning officer at IPS Learning and program director of the Stanford Advanced Project Management program. Responsible for curriculum development and the IPS-Stanford partnership, Wasserman relies on more than 25 years of experience developing and implementing enterprise-wide solutions to address the human-capital needs of global enterprises in areas including project and program management; leadership development; creativity and innovation; and quality methodologies.

Wasserman is also a member of the Stanford APM faculty, delivering both on-campus and on-site courses and workshops, and co-chair of the upcoming Strategic Execution Conference, being held October 20–22 in Santa Clara, California.

Why is the Stanford Advanced Project Management program different from other PM training programs?

First, the goal of the program is to build better leaders and more effective team members rather than more process proficient project professionals. The program achieves this by improving individual and team performance around cultural …

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