International Project Management Association (www.ipma.ch) - A project management professional association headquartered in Europe. It is an international association-of-associations. IPMA organizations exist in many different nations, and each IPMA organization has its own name and governance. People become members of IPMA by joining one of its national organizations.
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PMI
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Project Management Institute (www.pmi.org) - a major professional association for project managers, headquartered in the U.S. The group is international in scope, but is most dominant in the U.S.
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strategy
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whatever senior management's highest priorities are right now (offered by Alex Brown, somewhat humorously, but with a grain of truth, too)
strategy
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choosing to perform activities differently than rivals (paraphrased from Michael Porter's What Is Strategy? Harvard Business Review, November 1996, page 64 -- the quote from Porter: "The essence of strategy is choosing to perform activities differently than rivals do.")
