1. Strategic Alignment

3. New Year’s Resolutions

7. Are We All
?
Really?

8. How’s it going in your company?

10. But first …
You have to
draw
The BIG Picture!

11. Tools of the Trade

13. Individual
Goals

16. Challenge #1 … Perspective

17. IT’s Perspective
Everything is a repetitive
process that can be
automated to increase
efficiency
Technology = Automation
Business Perspective
Everything we do is unique
from how anyone else does
it…
in our company and our
industry.
Uniqueness = Competitive
Advantage

18. Challenge #2 …Communication

19. Communication Obstacles
Speak Different Languages
Lack of Transparent Communication

20. Challenge #3…Participation

21. I’ll just do my part and then it’s
someone else’s responsibility…
I’m out of it!
I can do it better on my
own
“They” don’t know
what they’re doing

23. Project Management is sold as
the “cure-all”
If we just manage our projects better we’ll be
more organized and successful so we can
focus on the big picture.

24. Project Managers

25. What Changes…

26. But still having problems!

27. New Problems

28. Limited Resources

29. Technology is only one
piece of the solution

30. Still not getting
to those larger
strategic
objectives that
impact the
entire
organization
PLUS

31. STRATEGIC OPERATIONS

32. What is it?

33. HOW IT WORKS

34. Assess the Situation
x

35. Help People Get
the Right View

36. Re-Engineer

37. Create Transparent Communication

41. Strategic Management
•Set vision goal and
path
•Define dept. goals
•Implementation &
Resourcing
•Projects and
actions
•Benchmark, research
and analysis
•Alignment
•Progress
•Governance
•Measurement,
reporting and
refinement
• Changes
Adjust Review
PlanAct
(Project
Management)

42. Steering versus Executing
Steering
Overall plan management
Strategic Objectives
Management
Project Governance & Teams
Project execution to goals

44. Measuring &
Monitoring

46. On the long term goals and
Ultimate Desired Outcome

48. Types of Change

49. Reduce the Surprises

50. The Bottom Line

51. Without strategy,
execution is aimless.
Without execution,
strategy is useless.

52. Amy Kramer
Director of Strategic Operations
South Carolina Farm Bureau