Expediting Strategy Realization with AI-Enhanced Project Management – D’Mello
Paper Title:
Expediting Strategy Realization with AI-Enhanced Project Management
Abstract:
This presentation starts with exploring the project management tasks that are already being assisted or automated by AI, the initial verdict on how AI has performed on these tasks, and what the integration of AI portends for the project management discipline and profession in the near and distant future.
We then transition to focusing on how AI can transform project management into a vital force for expediting and realizing organizational strategy, thereby elevating project managers to active partners in strategy realization. This role elevation may be an existential imperative for project managers who will increasingly need to justify their value as AI automates or assists with a growing number of project management tasks.
A July 2025 McKinsey & Company article presents data which indicates that there are three key differentiators between strategy champions and strategy stragglers: design, mobilization, and execution; and that the vast majority of organizations fall in the straggler category. We will explain how project management (traditional and agile) can harness AI in its many forms (analytical, generative, and agentic) to expedite effective strategy mobilization and execution. We will also identify and discuss the potential factors and challenges that need to be addressed in order to realize this goal; and we will present a model which incorporates qualitative and quantitative measures that can help to visualize and gauge progress towards that goal, and shed light on where course corrections are needed.
After attending this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Summarize how AI is currently automating or assisting project management tasks
- Articulate how AI integration could transform project management in the near and distant future;
- Explain how AI can be leveraged to position project management as a vital force in strategy mobilization and execution
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