MGT 172 Chapter 2: MGT 172 Chapter : Chapter 2_ Organization Strategry and Project Selection

• School: UCSD
• Department: Rady School of Management
• Course: MGT 172
• Professor: Kathleen Hedges

Document Summary

So they can make appropriate decisions and adjustments. So they can be effective project advocates. Strategic management: process of assessing what we are and deciding and implementing what we intend to be and how we are going to get there . 2. 2 the need for a project priority system. Conflicts frequently occur among functional managers and cause lack of trust. Frequent meetings are called to establish or renegotiate priorities. People frequently shift from one project to another. Employees are confused about which projects are important. People are working on multiple projects and feel inefficient. The implementation gap: the lack of understanding and consensus of organization strategy among top and middle-level managers. Sacred cow : a project that a powerful, high ranking official is advocating. Project sponsors: high-ranking manager who endorse and lend political support for the completion of a specific project. People working on several tasks concurrently are far less efficient.