Ron Rosenhead posted a comment titled "Prove the Benefits of Your Project - Or Lose The Money." This is a constant discussion in the IT world, where the mission and vision of the project has not been established.
Balanced Scorecard has served me well over the years in "connecting the dots" between the Strategy of an organization and the projects that are supposed to support that strategy.
Connecting Strategy with Tactics provides "Line of Sight" for both sides of the equation. Here's how to do it.
In the upper left of the Balanced Scorecard Strategy Map. In the lower right is the traceability between the strategies and the performance measures for the projects implementing the strategies.
