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    Do you take a break in your projects to be creative?

    Strategic project management helps organizations to effectively manage their business strategy to realize benefits. Strategic objectives will be aligned with project execution, therefore projects become a key component to achieve goals and enable benefits that will take the organization to the next level.

    When projects are aligned with organization’s strategy and the strategy is well communicated to stakeholders, stockholders and project team members there will be a total engagement. Every member in the organization will be committed to pursue the successful completion of projects.

    Although meeting project schedule is important, it is also important to spend some time being creative or innovative.

    Creativity meets strategic project management

    In 2002, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin introduced a new concept that allowed engineers and programmers to devote 20%of their time to projects of their own choosing. This meant that employees would spend one full day of their working week on this activity. This concept evolved from idea incubator to Google Labs.

    Google Labs consolidates all those projects and enable Google to create new applications or add features to existing applications. Google Maps, Google Docs, iGoogle and Google Reader are a few examples of creative ideas of committed employees with a clear understanding of strategic objectives that had contributed to Google’s expansion.

    To continue with this trend, creative employees who had produced the best innovative product or feature are recognized in an annual ceremony and awarded with a giant science-lab breaker filled with colorful jelly beans.

    Creative minds unleash their imagination

    Company’s greater asset is their talented human capital that can be more creative if they are given free rein to unleash their imagination.

    Would the Google innovative concept work in your organization?

    Tags » Creativity Innovation Strategic Project Management
    • 6 January 2011
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    My passion is program and project management and how culture impacts the project outcome. I'd been managing global and regional projects around the world led and managed diverse and disperse teams and transformed programs into benefits.
    I had been exposed to several project management methodologies and achieved credentials from different project management organizations. I am the first Mexican to achieve the PgMP credential and mentoring potential candidates from Latin America.
    As an avid volunteer with PMI and with other organizations I participate in events that promote the project management culture. I have a strong multi-cultural background and speak fluently English, Spanish and Portuguese.
    I am a frequent speaker at regional and global project management congresses. You can read my columns in PMI Community Post and INyES Latino.


    Conrado Morlan, EzineArticles.com Basic Author

  • About Conrado Morlan

    My passion is program and project management and how culture impacts the project outcome. I'd been managing global and regional projects around the world led and managed diverse and disperse teams and transformed programs into benefits.
    I had been exposed to several project management methodologies and achieved credentials from different project management organizations. I am the first Mexican to achieve the PgMP credential and mentoring potential candidates from Latin America.
    As an avid volunteer with PMI and with other organizations I participate in events that promote the project management culture. I have a strong multi-cultural background and speak fluently English, Spanish and Portuguese.
    I am a frequent speaker at regional and global project management congresses. You can read my columns in PMI Community Post and INyES Latino.


    Conrado Morlan, EzineArticles.com Basic Author

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