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The DNA of Strategy Execution: Next Generation Project Management and PMO 1st Edition, Kindle Edition

by Jack Duggal (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
THE DNA OF STRATEGY EXECUTION

“In a world where there are more questions than answers every leader will need to learn to dance to a different beat. In this insightful book, Jack Duggal has cracked the DNA of Strategy Execution. Ignore these insights at your own peril.”
— Dr. Tony O’Driscoll
Global Head, DukeCE Labs, Duke Corporate Education
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

DECODE THE DNA OF MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY EXECUTION IN AN INCREASINGLY TURBULENT WORLD

Just as DNA contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all living organisms, what if we could decode the elements of management and strategy execution?

This insightful book offers new perspectives on age-old management challenges and illuminates better ways to organize and manage in an increasingly DANCE-world (Dynamic. Ambiguous. Non-Linear. Complex. Emergent). It puts the management DNA under the microscope, and shows how to develop, build and transform organizational project management and PMO capabilities essential for effective strategy execution. It provides a framework to measure what matters with a step-by-step approach to define and measure success and business value.

The DNA of Strategy Execution: Next Generation Project Management and PMO provides innovative insights for organizational project management and PMO. Based on application and learnings from many organizations around the world, this book reveals a playbook for strategy execution that will help you:

  • Decode the core elements of management and strategy execution DNA
  • Design and build next-generation Project/Program Management and PMO platform essential for effective strategy execution
  • Prepare your organization to effectively lead and implement agile transformation and organizational change
  • Improve organizational project management (OPM) and PMO maturity
  • Improve overall organizational effectiveness and innovation capabilities

Whether you are a part of a startup, or an established incumbent organization, the impact of digitization and disruption requires a rethink and reset of how we organize and manage. This book presents a playbook for effective strategy execution with next-generation Project, Program and PMO capabilities.

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"In a world where there are more questions than answers every leader will need to learn to dance to a different beat. In this insightful book, Jack Duggal has cracked the DNA of Strategy Execution. Ignore these insights at your own peril."
- Dr. Tony O'Driscoll, Global Head, DukeCE Labs, Duke Corporate Education, Duke University

"A brilliant approach to organizational project management essential for an organization to execute on its business strategy in today's dynamic environment. A must read for all project, program and portfolio managers, as well as functional managers and executives in start-ups or traditional businesses."
- Devesh Dayal, Global Head of Business Intelligence, Head of US Asset Management Technology, Deutsche Asset Management, Deutsche Bank

"With the customer at its core, the DNA of Strategy Execution is a fascinating examination of the strands that connect strategy and execution to lasting change. A must have read for strategy and project professionals looking for the agility to thrive on the edge of chaos."
- Ellen Kelly, Associate Director for Strategy and Planning, Research Foundation for SUNY

"The DNA of Strategy Execution takes an in-depth look at today's complex, challenging, and competitive business environments. We can no longer function the old way. This book inspires you to think differently and find a new approach in bringing corporate strategies and execution closer together."
- Brenda Horton, President, PMI Westchester, Senior Project Manager, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

"The DNA of Strategy Execution really encourages and inspires the reader to take a step back and look at current processes from a new perspective. It is highly applicable as a tool to create or transform project management and PMO practices in today's world, particularly in product and software development."
- Amanda Adams, Director of Project Management, MINDBODY Online inc.

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“In a world where there are more questions than answers every leader will need to learn to dance to a different beat. In this insightful book, Jack Duggal has cracked the DNA of Strategy Execution. Ignore these insights at your own peril.”
— Dr. Tony O’Driscoll
Global Head, DukeCE Labs, Duke Corporate Education
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

DECODE THE DNA OF MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY EXECUTION IN AN INCREASINGLY TURBULENT WORLD

Just as DNA contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all living organisms, what if we could decode the elements of management and strategy execution?

This insightful book offers new perspectives on age-old management challenges and illuminates better ways to organize and manage in an increasingly DANCE-world (Dynamic. Ambiguous. Non-Linear. Complex. Emergent). It puts the management DNA under the microscope, and shows how to develop, build and transform organizational project management and PMO capabilities essential for effective strategy execution. It provides a framework to measure what matters with a step-by-step approach to define and measure success and business value.

The DNA of Strategy Execution: Next Generation Project Management and PMO provides innovative insights for organizational project management and PMO. Based on application and learnings from many organizations around the world, this book reveals a playbook for strategy execution that will help you:

  • Decode the core elements of management and strategy execution DNA
  • Design and build next-generation Project/Program Management and PMO platform essential for effective strategy execution
  • Prepare your organization to effectively lead and implement agile transformation and organizational change
  • Improve organizational project management (OPM) and PMO maturity
  • Improve overall organizational effectiveness and innovation capabilities

Whether you are a part of a startup, or an established incumbent organization, the impact of digitization and disruption requires a rethink and reset of how we organize and manage. This book presents a playbook for effective strategy execution with next-generation Project, Program and PMO capabilities.

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Deep into decoding the DNA of Strategy-Execution and Transformation, Jack Duggal works with global organizations and people worldwide in strategy- execution. Jack’s passion is to explore the liminal space to seek and spark different perspectives on how to deal with the DANCE- Dynamic | Ambiguous | Non-Linear | Complex | Emergent nature of business, organizations, and life. His purpose is to inspire people and organizations to make a difference and impact through exponential transformation in today’s persistently turbulent DANCE world.

An internationally recognized expert in Strategy-Execution and PMO, Jack’s next-generation ideas and the DNA of Strategy-Execution framework have been adopted and implemented in organizations worldwide. Jack is the winner of the HBM Global Innovation award and first prize for Innovation based on implementation ideas from the book. He also received the PMO Global Alliance Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions over the last twenty-plus years.

Jack is a TEDx speaker and a sought-after international keynote speaker and top-rated faculty in the areas of Strategy-Execution, Transformational Leadership & Communication, Next Generation PMO, Program Management, Agility, Design, and Change. He has worked with thousands of participants in seminars and workshops from organizations around the world who have engaged, questioned, challenged, experimented, applied, and helped fine-tune the practices over the years. He has also been an adjunct professor and affiliated with corporate education programs at Duke University, George Washington University, University of Connecticut, and others.

Jack is the founder and managing principal of Projectize Group LLC, leading next-generation strategy-execution, consulting, facilitation, learning and development, organizational assessments and transformation engagements. He works with leading organizations from NASA to Silicon Valley and governments worldwide.

Jack lives on a hill in Connecticut on the east coast of the United States with a vista that inspires a wide perspective and runs on the trails in the valley to practice and gain experience in the trenches.

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Customers find the book effective, with one review highlighting its innovative framework and practical ways to apply it, while another mentions its useful guidelines for managing various stakeholders.

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Much needed playbook to take the PMOs to the next level
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Much needed playbook to take the PMOs to the next level
Survival of a PMO beyond the first 3 years of standing it up has a 50-50 chance. On top of that, the PMO that survives longer does so, not necessarily because of its effectiveness, but a lack of metrics to measure its success. For that reason many companies look at PMOs as paper-pushing entities from a bygone era. In this book, Jack Duggal takes a holistic approach by coming up with a framework to merge strategy with execution. With this framework, anyone starting out a PMO will have a playbook to do it right, right from the beginning. For an existing PMO, this book provides many approaches to reset and then rethink the way it organizes and manages projects. As shown in the picture, I have highlighted many pages of this book and planning to use it as a reference as situations arise. I highly recommend this book for companies that are in the middle of an agile transformation, or planning to start one since it provides a holistic way of becoming agile with rigor but without rigidity.
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  • FriscoDad
    5.0 out of 5 stars Simply The Best PM Book I've Read
    Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2019
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    If you have ever heard one of Jack Duggal’s presentation you immediately realize when you’re witnessing brilliance. Not to overstate it, but this is what I felt when I attended one of his webinars and subsequently read this book. When you are a Project or Program Manager with experience, you can differentiate between someone trying to sell you a software solution to solve a problem and someone that understand the PM practice from the inside out. Jack is definitely the latter.

    This book approaches Program Management with the admission that not everything that is planned way ahead of time will become a reality. Basically, a plan endures until first contact with reality. By accepting that pretense, a book like this can be written and the practice designed from the ground up to be flexible enough that it can survive the changes and agility necessary for today’s Program Manager.

    If flexibility, adaptation to change, and agility is an accepted minimal requirement of doing business, then you as a Project/Program manager must understand that you need to do this as well to support your customers. This book outlines what factors are important that you need to keep track of, and how you need to mold these to deliver what your main purpose should be: deliver value that aligns with business strategy.

    If you deliver projects that don’t support business strategy, then you’re not serving a purpose. This book will outline how you need to think beyond a typical Project/Program Manager. You need to think strategy. You need to think value. If you’re not, then you also need to speak up! Stop wasting your company’s resources on non-value projects.

    If you’re a practicing Project or Program Manager and you want to change your perspective from someone that just delivers, to someone that delivers value that helps move company strategy forward, get this book. You will also want to sign up to listen one of Jack’s presentations. They will change your perspective for sure.
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  • Natalie Cooper
    5.0 out of 5 stars Accurately describes today's turbulent DANCE environment and provides a Next Generation Approach
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2018
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    I am responsible for a large team and we are under increasing pressure to get things done and deliver results in a constantly changing environment. We have implemented standard management approaches including agile in recent years with significant standardization and training and so on. In the last year or so the pace has just gone crazy and the list of challenges and issues keeps increasing. I was intrigued by the title of this book and wondered what could be the ‘next generation.’ I thought more buzzwords about disruption, etc. but this book is different and has changed my perspective. As I have been digging into the book over the last few weeks, I was surprised how accurately the book characterizes today’s DANCE (Dynamic-Ambiguous-Nonlinear-Complex-Emergent) environment and the challenges we are facing. DANCE is similar to VUCA (Volatile-Uncertain-Complex-Ambiguous) which has become a popular term in the last couple of years. According to the author DANCE is the evolution of VUCA and calls-out non-linear and emergent aspects which are not emphasized in VUCA. The book clearly describes how the game has changed but we are still using a lot of the management ideas which are based on 100-year old thinking. It does not only illustrate the problem, but is packed with insights, and detailed application steps and relevant tips and techniques.
     
    The book is well organized, it describes the DANCE world challenges and then decodes the DNA of Strategy Execution. Each of the elements of the DNA is a chapter – Strategy, Execution, Connect, Governance, Measure, Learn, Change, Simplify and Balance. Whether it is strategy or execution, or governance, or measurement, or change management, each topic delves into the details and offers the latest approaches along with application ideas and tips and tools in a succinct manner. Each chapter ends with a checklist of how to develop intelligence in each of the areas, along with key takeaways. Over the last few weeks this book has become our strategy execution playbook. There is so much in this book that can be applied at the organizational level, as well as individual project and program levels. I highly recommend this book for anybody who is involved in getting things done, and executing strategy from executives to PMO leaders, as well as project and program managers to be better equipped to deal with today’s challenges.
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  • Beth Desormeaux
    5.0 out of 5 stars Realistic and relatable
    Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2024
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    My first project management responsibility was in 1991, a different world. This book has been a wonderful transition tool for me - a next-generation way of thinking, acknowledging, and approaching my own project management responsibilities and when I coach others. Every part of Jack's work speaks to me, from the way the book is organized to the acknowledgement of change being at the heart of every project. It is uncanny how in every section Jack has anticipated my questions and concerns and seems to be speaking to me directly , guiding me through complex ideas while challenging me to think deeper and differently about them.
    This is the first work I have found that feels comprehensive of the full project management experience, packed with realistic, experience-earned wisdom rather than theory.
    It will sit on my desk as a treasured reference for years to come.
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  • Nathasha Smith
    4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2019
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    The books gives good insight into the world of PMOs . It is thought provoking and provides very simple and effective concepts. I highly recommend.
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  • NOT WATERPROOF!!!
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great for any PMO!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 26, 2024
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    This book is a must read for all project managers, no matter the industry! Buy it buy it buy it!!
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  • Daphnemamma
    5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful across industries
    Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024
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    Solid information and advice to create a PMO in many different industries. Bought after attending a class with the author, and am now purchasing a couple more to share with colleagues. Good stuff!!
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  • Jeremy L Russell
    5.0 out of 5 stars enabling my organization to effectively deliver on strategic objectives by better understanding the organizational DNA
    Reviewed in Canada on April 5, 2018
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    I had the pleasure of attending a seminar led by Jack Duggal related to the topic of this book. Jack is an expert in strategy execution, which is evidenced throughout this read. I continue to discover gems to apply in my professional life, enabling my organization to effectively deliver on strategic objectives by better understanding the organizational DNA, and influencing change through effective, value-added partnership.
    I recommend this book to anyone looking to enhance their project delivery approach, grow and evolve their PMO capabilities, or simply help their organization gain clarity for more effective strategy execution.
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  • Dale F
    5.0 out of 5 stars Thought-provoking and logical
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 13, 2020
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    Jack Duggal provides some thought provoking reading in The DNA of Strategy Execution. It is a must read for anyone involved in projects. His ideas, thoughts and concepts relate to wider business functions too!

    I had the great opportunity to speak to Jack about his book on Project Chatter Podcast Season 2 Episode 2 where he gives a synopsis of the book plus more!

    I found Jack's passion for strategy execution infectious and his analogies are just fantastic!
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  • Ed Curley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Strategy execution, a guide book.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 23, 2020
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    This is a must read book on strategy execution. It clearly sets out processes, roles and tools which any organisation can use to develop and put in place the foundations for effective strategy execution. I was particularly drawn to Jack's comments and views on the future role of the PMO as Strategy Support Office. If you are involved in organisational performance improvement, strategy development, PMO development or digital transformation then this book is for you.
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  • Dave Dev
    2.0 out of 5 stars Reasonable content
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2023
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    Reasonable content unfortunately marred by numerous typos/inconsistencies
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