Stanford Strategic Decision and Risk Management

Converting Strategy into Action (XAPM110)

Required Courses
Decision Quality in Organizations
Decision Analysis
Elective Courses
Advanced Decision Analysis
Behavioral Challenges in Decision-Making
Converting Strategy into Action
Decision Leadership
Enterprise Risk Management
Ethical Decision-Making
Modeling for Strategic Insight
Strategic Decision & Risk Management Practicum
Strategic Innovation
Strategic Portfolio Decisions
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Learn a comprehensive organizational mastery model that includes proven approaches and emerging concepts for aligning your organization's project and program initiatives with its strategic objectives. Students will learn why traditional "project management as usual" practices don't work in today's complex, fast-paced business environments, and then acquire a comprehensive organizational mastery model that does. Students will emerge with a firm grasp of what it takes for an organization to be focused and successful with projects and programs that consistently execute business strategies.

Learn how to:
Align project initiatives with strategic objectives
Select, prioritize, and manage a portfolio of projects in a product development or other fast-paced business environment
Complete projects faster, with more efficient resource deployment
Use new tools to support planning and execution, thereby shrinking time to market
Address "crisis mentality" and use time more effectively
Champion advanced project management with both co-located and virtual teams
Close the gap between knowing and doing
Customize a best-practices based organizational mastery model for direct application in your organization
Build a stronger project-based matrix organization that is capable of consistently high performance

* This course also counts as a required course in the Stanford Advanced Project Management Program - http://apm.stanford.edu