Project Management in the State Strategic Planning System

The topic of project management implementation in the Russian strategic planning is of high importance currently, because authorities understand that project management approach is an efficient supplement to the strategic planning system (SSP). However SSP now is facing many problems, which cannot allow to reach the objectives set for given administrative innovation. The problem to be dealt with in the thesis is whether the introduction of project management principles into SSP will help overcoming key obstacles to establishing efficient mechanism of goal-setting within the SSP. With the help of case study method goal setting problems in Russia taking into account project management approach and referring to the best international practices were analysed in order to investigate the place that project management takes in the state strategic planning system under current regulations and conditions under which project management could become a necessary and efficient part of the national system of strategic planning. Recommendations to Russian practice are made.