Leon M. Hielkema - IT Strategic Project Management SPOMP

Award-Winning Finalist in the Business Category of the 2013 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, the 2012 USA Best Book Awards, and the New England Book Festival 2012

SEDUCE STAKEHOLDERS

There is a high demand for internal IT consultants, CIOs, project managers, program managers, change agents, or change managers, who are able to drive change in their organization, without having the formal authority.

• How to create commitment, engagement, ownership, and buy-in for strategic initiatives?
• How to deal with resistance to change current behavior or working method?

“IT Strategic Project Management SPOMP” offers you five powerful new strategies to convince people to change. Discover how you can start “seducing” stakeholders into change by SPOMPing your project. Learn how you can:

S use office politics for effective stakeholder management
P plan and design internal communications to influence people
O organize influence to let the steering committee work for you
M use project marketing to sell your change ideas
P prove potential project success with KPIs

A SPOMPed project means a successful organizational change, an effective implementation, a shorter project duration, more enthusiastic project team members, and for you as an internal professional an even more successful image within your organization.

“Finally a book that not only tells you how important engagement is, but also shows you how to actually create it. Highly recommended.” — B. Johnson, PMP, Chicago

“An excellent how-to for IT professionals delivering change and looking to develop their people skills.” — T. Hatfield, Allentown

“Excellent book on integrating project management and change management.” — J. Peters, Richmond

*** Strategic Project Management SPOMP is also available for Finance, Marketing and Communications, Legal and Compliance, Human Resources, and other internal staff professionals (search “SeduceStakeholders”). Companion website offers free executive summaries.