This topic comes into most organizations to ensure the result of projects will bring achievement of organization’s strategic objectives. There are studies or articles how to make reasonable linkage between strategy and projects.
Mostly strategic management method aims to develop and re-communicate strategic objectives to stakeholders, who also made an approach to identify the target and its related activities. Meanwhile the project management methodology gives contribution to the completion of the project and its management efficiency.
However, the method at a strategic level cannot ensure that initiatives can be implemented, while the methods at the project level cannot be sure that the project aligned with the organization's strategy and effectively will give a good value. The success of the project is generally assessed on the balancing of project constraints. So there is limited concern that the project will contribute enough change to organization.
When I learned book of “The Standard for Program management”, Program management is one of the methods to connect organizational strategy and the execution. Program business case is a formal declaration about how program aligns with the organization strategic objectives.
Program business case and program plan will help to identify business benefits, outcome, project outputs and mapping benefits to project and outcome. Outputs are deliverables that are tangible by nature, whereas outcome is the final results of the proper use of outputs. Benefits are measurable improvements that have a positive impact to organization from the effect of exploited outcome.
