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Wed, 14 Sep 2005

The Elusive Executive Sponsor

"One of the biggest predictors of project and program success is having an effective executive sponsor. This is the senior executive who "owns" the program and is responsible for making sure it's successful. The executive sponsor is typically the one who proposed the program and whose business unit or organization will receive the majority of the program's benefits. To be effective, he must have enough clout to make any business process or organizational changes the program requires. If your program has a missing, weak or superficially involved executive sponsor, failure is almost inevitable."

Read more at: http://www.computerworld.com/managementtopics/management/project/story/0,10801,103703,00.html

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