While executing a project, there are many organizational factors that impact the project in various ways. Some of such factors are Culture, Structure, Knowledge Assets, Systems and Procedures and so on. This presentation uses on real-life experiences of the author to explain the impact on projects.

1. Knowledge Area Process Mind Map
Based on PMBOK 5th Edition

2. Organizational Influencers
and
Project Manager
PMP Club Meeting
in PMSTME
on 28 June -2015

3. What are Organizational Influencers??
 Organizational Culture & Style
 Organizational Communications
 Organizational Structure
 Organizational Process Assets
 Enterprise Environmental Factors
 Project Stakeholders

4. Organizational Culture and Style
 Risk Tolerance levels
 Reliance Group – Jamnagar Refinery
 Tata Group – Konkan Railway
 Bank of Maharashtra
 Values-Melstar- Medical Transcription Project
 Motivation
 Empowerment – Reliance and Bajaj
 Attendance – Tata/ Reliance/ Bajaj/Melstar
 Hierarchy and authority relationships
 Internal dynamics
 Code of conduct and ethics
 Bank of Maharashtra
 Operating environments
 Reliance
 IIS Infotech

5. Organizational Communications
 Communication style
 Verbal instructions – IIS Infotech
 Grapevine – Melstar/Reliance
 Communication channels
 Persons in confidence
 Communications bottlenecks
 I read mails only addressed to me
 Ineffective way of using emails – Essar
 I will directly communicate with person of
my level or above – Bank of Maharashtra

6. Organizational Structure
 Types
 Functional
 Projectized
 Matrix
 Authority of Project
Manager
 So on….
 Enterprise Structure
 Power dynamics – Reliance and Bank
of Maharashtra
 Group Interests
 Issues of group level consolidation
 Loss of power
 Cost of not participations
 MIS is incomplete
 Waste of energy
 Budgets
 People don’t want to share the costs

7. O r g a n i z a t i o n a l P r o c e s s A s s e t s
 PMO
 Updating the knowledge base
 Maturity level
 QMS
 Tata
 Melstar
 Knowledge management Systems
 Policies
 Attendance – Reliance/Melstar/Tata
 Internal Audits

8. E n t e r p r i s e E n v i r o n m e n t a l
F a c t o r s
 Geographical distribution of
resources
 Standards
 ISO
 CMM
 QMS _ Melstar
 Stakeholders’ risk tolerances
 Reliance
 Tata
 Political climate
 Commercial data bases
 Estimates-Reliance
Project
Management
Govt.
Stakeholders
Cpolitics &
Power
Standards

9. S t a k e h o l d e r s
 Top management
 Customer
 ISO
 CMM
 Melstar-UK/Singapore Project
 Stakeholders’ risk tolerances
 Reliance
 Tata
 Political climate - common
 Commercial data bases
 Estimates-Reliance

10. So….
 There is project impact on the
environment
 Also, environment impacts the
project
 Project scope also includes
 Managing Environment for the betterment of
project
 Living with the environment and driving the
project to meet the objectives

11. References
 PMBOK 5th edition