Adding Value through Project Management

I recently attended a small presentation from an executive on project management tools. During the presentation, he asked a question “What according to you is the goal of project management?” – meeting the agreed scope, time, cost, quality, schedules formed the part of answers.

He immediately responded “The goal of project management is to add value – to the organization, to your people and more importantly, to your clients. ” Can’t agree more. When we are customer focused, we continuously strive to add value to our clients business – and when we stop doing that, we are out of business! As project managers, we strive to add value to our people – bring them to a certain level in terms of their skill set and technical proficiency. And when we add value to our customers and value to our people, we automatically add value to the organizations we work for.

Any thoughts to take this further ?