The Effect of Strategic Project Implementation Effectiveness, Integration and Strategic Alignment on Organizational Performance: the case of ACE (Achieving Competency Excellence) project in Ethiopian Airlines

The purpose of this paper is to explore the influence of ACE (Achieving Competency Excellence)
project implementation, integration and strategic alignment on organizational performance in
the case of Ethiopian Airlines MRO division. The hypotheses were simultaneously tested on a
sample of 336 respondents out of 385 distributed, giving a valid response rate of 87 percent.
Simple regression analysis was used to assess the relationships among the variables under
investigation. The applications used to analyze and examine the hypotheses are the Statistical
Package for Social Sciences V.21. The findings of this study have shown a significant effect of
ACE project successful implementation, integration and strategic alignment on organizational
performance at the level of (α ≤ 0.05). The results are useful in identifying areas for strategic
focus to help the airline’s future strategic project management. As evident from the finding
section that the study was conducted in Ethiopian Airlines MRO division only, applicability of
the results in other divisions may result differently. Further, as the project is conducted in the
airlines industry with unique project, application of the similar study in other industries, like;
education, financial, and health may not come up with the same findings.