Welcome to the blog, where experts from PM College join you in discussing how to connect project performance and strategy execution.

Webinar Includes Tips on Optimizing Your Resources for Improved Strategic Execution

One of the most interesting findings, as I mentioned in my last blog, of PM Solutions' newest research, The Strategy Execution Process Benchmark, is that, overall, most employees are little engaged or motivated by strategy... Read More »

Posted on Jan 22, 2018 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Who Executes Strategy?

When I first entered the project management world, lo these many eons ago, there was a saying that “people do projects.” Project managers needed to remind themselves of this since, at the time,... Read More »

Posted on Dec 22, 2017 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Training and Culture Change: Thoughts from the PMO Symposium

Last week's PMO Symposium was a whirlwind of information and contacts, but there was one thing that I continued pondering over the weekend that I'd like to share with our PM College blog... Read More »

Posted on Nov 14, 2017 by Johanna Mickel

Experiential Learning … Is It For You?

We all learn differently. I’m beginning to feel my age because I am definitely a person who needs paper and pen. I need interaction and application opportunities. However, my children,... Read More »

Posted on Oct 30, 2017 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

Project Success is Improving – Why, Do You Think?

Project management has been around for decades, and so have studies on its effectiveness. The pattern in research over my years in the discipline clearly demonstrates that project success rates are improving. Despite the... Read More »

Posted on Sep 29, 2017 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford in Business Case for Training, Leadership, Performance Measurement, Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Research, Project Management Training, Strategy Execution

Strategy Execution Processes: What We Know Now About Leadership Training

Our newest research study, the Strategy Execution Process Benchmark, has not been formally released yet, but in comparing some of the data it contains about training and development to PM College's 2015 Project Manager Skills... Read More »

Posted on Sep 6, 2017 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin

Need High Performance? Follow the Lead of these Best-Practice PMOs

PM Solutions Research's State of the PMO 2016 study revealed some interesting facts about the importance of project management training.Over the years, we have seen more and more PMOs become responsible for training and... Read More »

Posted on Aug 24, 2017 by Deborah Bigelow Crawford

Learning to Execute Strategy: A Sneak Peek at the Results of the PM Solutions Research Strategy Execution Process Benchmark Study.

We are slicing and dicing the data from our recently-conducted study on the processes that contribute to strategy execution, and the news for training professionals is … there’s a lot to learn.A... Read More »

Posted on Aug 18, 2017 by Jeannette Cabanis-Brewin