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?