Strategic Disruption: The Impact on PMs

Kevin Coleman is a highly skilled senior level project and program manager/advisor with experience leading projects with labor budgets ranging from a few hundred thousand dollars to multi-million dollar budgets across multiple industries.

  Estimating   Strategy  

We live and work in an era of change that is much greater then we have seen before. Nearly every organization’s strategy must continuously evolve these days. New technologies, emerging technologies, evolving global markets and emerging economic aspects including cryptocurrencies are all culminating to make a business environment unlike what we have experienced before.

All of this is driving organizational transformation to change at a pace that many are finding difficult to keep up with. Failure to keep up with all these changes is a very dangerous position for any organization to be in. With all the new technology that is available today and the emerging technologies that will become available in the next three to five years, failure to update your strategy continuously can very well be fatal. Organizations can quickly fall behind, be pushed aside and have their market share erode to the point where the organization may not survive. The days of setting an organization’s strategy every two or three years are over. An organization’s strategy should be updated quarterly as new and emerging technologies and economic changes continuously occur.

What good is a great strategy without the ability to execute? When it comes to executing a strategy with all that needs to be done, support of the new strategy usually falls to program and project managers. After all,…

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