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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. Chapter 6 discusses the role of the Chief Information Officer and provides a practical overview of information technology and its purposes in business. Significant recent developments in IT and techniques for designing IT enterprise architecture are examined. The chapter shows how the CIO works with other executives to define a strategic IT master plan, and concludes with a presentation on best practices regarding the use of IT consultants and IT vendor companies. The chapter contains three appendices that discuss technology basics (software, hardware, telecommunications, the internet 1.0 and 2.0, and databases), IT global standards, and commercial software contracting basics.

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