As an executive, your organization may have limited resources. This book will instruct you and your leadership teams on implementing strategy through identifying, selecting, prioritizing, resourcing, and governing an optimal work portfolio. You'll learn how to sponsor every project stage, as well as leading project managers as direct reports. Detailed advice is given for developing project management competency and utilizing input from customers, employees, and processes. You'll learn how your organization can capitalize upon information technology to become competitive and to effectively implement business strategies, as well as how to make portfolio and project decisions using both qualitative and quantitative data and reliable analysis methods. About author(s): Timothy J .Kloppenborg is a professor emeritus from Xavier University Cincinnati, Ohio. He has authored over 100 publications. His ten other books include Contemporary Project Management, Project Leadership, and Project Management Essentials. Tim has consulted and trained with many organizations on six continents. His PhD in operations management is from the University of Cincinnati. He has served on a number of boards, having been president of several. He has been active at the Project Management Institute (PMI) for over 30 years and has been a certified project management professional (PMP) for 28 years. He is a retired USAFR officer.