Filling Execution Gaps: How Executives and Project Managers Turn Corporate Strategy into Successful Projects - Softcover

Williams, Todd C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1501515209 ISBN 13: 9781501515200

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter, 2017

Synopsis

"I expected good, but this is great." -Janet Pirus Phelps, Former CFO Papa Murphy's Pizza
Gaps . . . holes in your organization where tasks fall and failure breeds. They inhibit your ability to implement strategic plans, lead people, and run successful projects. Daily, executives, middle managers, and project managers wrestle with "the big six":

• Absence of common understanding
• Disengaged executive sponsors
• Misalignment with goals
• Poor change management
• Ineffective governance
• Lackluster leadership

Ignoring any of these gaps will hex any strategy or project. They regularly destroy hundreds of companies' ability to turn their corporate vision into business value--taking careers with them. 

Filling Execution Gaps addresses the sources of these gaps, and how to fill them. Without any one of these important functions, projects fail. Without change management, adoption suffers. Without common understanding, there is confusion. Without goals, business units, and capabilities aligned, execution falters. Without executive sponsorship, decisions languish. Too little governance allows bad things to happen, while too much governance creates overburdening bureaucracy. Without leadership at all levels of the organization, people are directionless.
Using decades of experience, years of research, and interviews with hundreds of business leaders, Todd Williams illustrates how to fill these gaps, meet corporate goals, and increase value.

About this title

About the Author

TODD C. WILLIAMS is an executive consultant with three decades of experience helping organizations connect strategy to successful projects. He has worked with startups and multibillion-dollar companies. He is a prolific writer sharing his wisdom and experience so that others can succeed. 

He has been involved in many writing projects:

• Filling Execution Gaps: How Executives And Project Managers Turn Corporate Strategy Into Successful Projects (De Gruyter, 2017) author
• Rescue the Problem Project: A Complete Guide to Identifying, Preventing, and Recovering from Project Failure (AMACOM, 2011) author
• PMP Project Management Professional Study Guide, Fifth Edition (February, 2018) technical editor
• Gower Handbook of People in Project Management (2013) contributing author
• Toyota: A Saga of Success (2008) contributing author

You can read more of his work on his own blog (ecaminc.com/blog) and look for contributions on numerous other sites including LinkedIn, ProjectManagement.com, and The CEO Magazine.

Online magazines, including Fortune/CNN Money, CIO.com, CIO Update, ZDNet, Enterprising CIO, IT Business Edge, PM World Journal, to name a few, regularly consult with him for quotes and content.

From the Back Cover

"I expected good, but this is great." ~Janet Pirus Phelps, Former CFO Papa Murphy's Pizza

Gaps . . . holes in your organization where tasks fall and failure breeds. They inhibit your ability to implement strategic plans, lead people, and run successful projects. Daily,executives, middle managers, and project managers wrestle with "the big six:"

• Absence of common understanding.
• Disengaged executive sponsors
• Misalignment with goals
• Poor change management
• Ineffective governance
• Lackluster leadership.

Ignoring any of these gaps will hexany strategy or project. They regularly destroy hundreds of companies' ability to turn their corporate vision into business value--taking careers with them.

Filling Execution Gaps addresses the sources of these gaps, and how to fill them.Without any one of these important functions projects fail. Without change management,adoption suffers. Without common understanding, there is confusion. Without goals,business units, and capabilities aligned, execution falters. Without executive sponsorship,decisions languish. Too little governance allows bad things to happen, while too much governance creates overburdening bureaucracy. Without leadership at all levels of the organization, people are directionless.

Using decades of experience, years of research, and interviews with hundreds of business leaders, Todd Williams illustrates how to fill these gaps, meet corporate goals, and increase value.

Edition details

• Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501515209
• ISBN 13: 9781501515200
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396