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Focus Down to Speed Up – A Fix for the Perennial Prioritization Issue

Blog: IMA Blog

We often encounter organizations that half-jokingly claim they’ve never met a project or imitative they didn’t like.  But these same companies also struggle when trying to resource and deliver all of their initiatives fast enough and within budget.  Sound familiar?  We are betting it does. 

The perennial prioritization issue seems to affect every organization.  Everywhere we look there are too many projects chasing too few resources. In addition, there is no clear line of sight to the total number of projects that are actually in play, where resources are being spent, or whether the initiatives are really directly tied to the strategic agenda.  So how do you fix it?