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Strategic Leadership of Portfolio and Project Management is an eight-chapter book written by Timothy J. Kloppenborg, the Castellini Distinguished Professor of Management at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Laurence J. Laning,a thirty-year IT executive who also teaches at Xavier. The book was published in January of 2012 by Business Expert Press. Written for executives, managers, and students of strategic management, the text addresses the gap between executives who determine strategy and the project managers who implement it. The authors advise leadership teams on implementing strategy through identifying, selecting, prioritizing, resourcing, and governing an optimal combination of projects that collectively helps them achieve their strategic goals. The book also guides executives about what they need to do at each project stage and how they can ensure project managers understand fully how their projects contribute to overall strategy. Further, the authors detail how regular reporting and quarterly updates in planning help to ensure results; propose proven, simple methods of collecting integral data; examine effective decision making methods; and explain how portfolio and project decisions must be made based on data using reliable analytical methods. In Chapter 3, the authors discuss the duties, motivations, and challenges of executives serving as a project sponsors. Executive sponsorship is defined and the responsibilities of a sponsor at each stage in the project life cycle are detailed. The chapter also examines the few select behaviors and high value activities executive sponsors can perform at each stage of a project to increase the probability of project success.

• IT management
• Strategy execution
• Decision making
• Portfolio management
• Project management