Project Management: Business Vision

Project Management: Business Vision: Via Accenture: Information Technology: Too Big to Fail?

Achieving a shared business vision of project outcomes is essential to success. A simple, compelling project vision may be all that is needed to shift the balance in your favor. Investing time in the project initiation phase pays dividends in the future. Hugh W. Ryan writes about field-tested techniques for successful IT project risk management and discusses the approach for a business vision ...

... "A Business Vision. Time and again we heard that successful large complex systems projects begin with a vision of a potential new way of doing business. Moreover, the entire project is guided by whether or not a new initiative or a change in scope is faithful to that vision. How complicated does the vision need to be? Often, not very. In fact, the simpler the better. At one international stock exchange, for example, the business vision was simply a crisp articulation of the eight essential capabilities that the final system was to provide. But that simple vision carried a great deal of weight, primarily because the project team spent considerable time up front getting senior executive support for the vision. " ...