Overcome Prioritization’s Toughest Challenge

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Overcome Prioritization’s Toughest Challenge

Human Nature Bias is the Biggest Obstacle Facing Strategic Prioritization

It’s hard to argue against the power of prioritization. If you really need to get something done, you focus your efforts and resources on that objective. Focus produces results.

Yet few organizations prioritize well. Why? Strategic prioritization requires comparing apples to oranges and making decisions with imperfect data. It requires you to set aside your own pet projects for the benefit of the whole. And there are human nature biases that actually work against prioritization.

Research shows organizations that invest in strategic prioritization deliver 40 percent more value. To tap the power of prioritization, download the complete white paper for:

  • Traditional approaches to prioritization and why they may not work
  • The often-overlooked forces of human nature that lead to prioritization struggles and failures
  • Solutions that include advanced approaches and ways to overcome the human nature elements that make prioritization so challenging
     

Tanya Roberts


Tanya Roberts is IPM’s Senior Director, Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) Services. A certified Portfolio Management Professional, she leads a team of project management consultants in assessing and enhancing organizational portfolios to achieve strategic objectives.

 

 

 

Scott Grzesiak


Scott Grzesiak, Executive Vice President of Strategic Growth, leads all aspects of IPM’s marketing and business development. He is responsible for analyzing markets and their application of strategy execution to enable IPM to build core competencies and new services.

 

 

 

Greg Kain


Greg Kain, Managing Director – Healthcare, is responsible for IPM’s Healthcare practice. He has served as the portfolio manager for a health system, advised on the formation and operation of Strategy Realization Offices, and overseen a variety of strategic initiatives.