Managing the Portfolio, Realizing the Benefits
by CPMA Member Services
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| Please note: The pdf of this article is available on the CPMA Member Portal for members. The illustrations and figures are all available in the pdf. |
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Managing the Portfolio, Realizing the Benefits (PART 2 - conclusion)
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| ‘Social' ValueA study undertaken for the Australian Government[1] concluded that, "Determining the benefit/cost ratio for e-Government is not straightforward, as the outcomes and benefits are not just financial. A particular problem for agencies is in identifying and measuring social value. |
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Why Do IT Projects Fail?
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| by Ade McCormack, FT ColumnistMost people will agree that a project is an activity that is constrained by a number of variables, including time, money, environment, people etc. One important variable is the expectation level of the recipient. |
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Bank Capital Budgeting After Basel II
by Michael C S Wong
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| Introduction Capital budgeting plays an important role in allocating resources in enterprises. Through a well-structured process of capital budgeting done by individual divisions, an enterprise can compare the profitability of its divisions, assess the feasibility of new business proposals, decide which projects to expand, construct a corporate portfolio to maximize returns, such as ROA, ROE and RAROC (risk-adjusted return of capital), and minimize risk. |
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2008 Resolutions for IT Portfolio Management & Project Portfolio Management vendors & consultants
by Anand Sanwal
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| So it is now almost mid-January, and I thought it would be a good time to discuss the resolutions that I hope IT and project portfolio management vendors will adopt in 2008. Below are my Big 6 resolutions that these vendors should adopt. |
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Thinking Outside the Intranet: Finding New Ways of Meeting Enterprise Project and Program Portfolio Management Requirements
by Greg Tilley
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| Co-Authored By: Doug Horsley - CIO, St. John of God Health Care Group, Dan Hare, Randy Schuessler - Director, IT Project Management Office for Harcourt AssessmentAlthough many companies are seeing noticeable, yet gradual increase in project, program, and portfolio management spending, they are being far more cautious in their spending and demanding business cases with lower risk, which often translates into less spending and a quick ROI. |
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What's Project Portfolio Management (PPM) & Why Should Project Managers Care About It?
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| Article by Michael GreerWhat Is Project Portfolio Management (PPM)?Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a management process designed to help an organization acquire and view information about all of its projects, then sort and prioritize each project according to certain criteria, such as strategic value, impact on resources, cost, and so on. The objectives of PPM are similar to the objectives of managing a financial portfolio: 1) To become conscious of all the individual listings in the portfolio 2) To develop a "big picture" view and a deeper understanding of the the collection as a whole. |
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Portfolio Management Framework in Action
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| by Andrew MakarThe past six articles described the goals, objectives and a framework for portfolio management. It all looks good in theory, but how is the framework put into practice? This article describes how an IT organization from a Fortune 500 manufacturing company applied the framework to its portfolio of accounting and finance applications. |
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Why Project Managers Shouldn't Run Your Portfolio Management Effort
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| by Anand SanwalSo I recently spoke at a conference in Amsterdam where I heard an executive from Air France, (Marco Vd Poel), talk about their portfolio management effort. It was a refreshingly honest and well-articulated presentation. |
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Can Finance Really Become a Strategic Partner to the Business?
by Anand Sanwal
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| Much has been written about how finance organizations can become strategic partners with the businesses they support. While purported experts point to a variety of frameworks, scorecards and key performance indicators, etc. |
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Project Portfolio Management is Your Friend
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| by Jeannette Cabanis-BrewinThree reasons for project managers to embrace PPM-Realism, Rationality, and VisibilityProject portfolio management (PPM) is HOT. On a recent morning, my inbox yielded five Gartner, Inc. |
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Project Portfolio Management - The First Cut is the Kindest Cut
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| One of the common problems faced by project-oriented organizations is having too many projects relative to their capacity. Therefore, one of the first things that needs to be done is to determine what can be done is to determine what should be done . |
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Project, Portfolio or Program Management Office?
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| What's your MO? Success depends on knowing which of the "P"s you're managing. By Walt Washburn, PMPEnterprises are adopting the PMO as a key enabler of organizational effectiveness. |
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What is Project Portfolio Management?
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| By Duncan HaugheyProject Portfolio Management is about more than running multiple projects. Each portfolio of projects needs to be assessed in terms of its business value and adherence to strategy. |
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Project Portfolio Management Megatrends
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| by Demian Entrekin As we look forward to what's next for Project Portfolio Management (PPM), there are several trends that will play out over the next few years. The fundamental tenets of PPM such as visibility and centralization of data will continue to drive value, but new trends are emerging now as PPM transitions from powerful concept to real-world practice. |
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Project Portfolio Management Offers Clarity in IT Investment Strategy
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| by Geoff ReissWe normally define project failure in terms of time, money and specification. A typical end-of-project report will state that the project was late, cost too much or failed to meet the users' requirements. |
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Portfolio Management Done Right
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| by Todd DatzRon Kifer, vice president of program management at DHL Americas, is a veteran of the typical project and portfolio planning or lack of planning?process in many companies. "The last three organizations I've been in had the same scenario. |
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Project Portfolio Management Isn't Enough
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| By Chuck TathamBy taking a more holistic approach to managing IT, CIOs can better align their efforts with that of the business. In the boom years of the late 1990s, many companies fell into the trap of investing in technology for technology's sake. |
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Analyze This
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| by Jon Goff and Edward Teach The fundamentals of portfolio management are being applied to corporate technology assets. In the early 1950s, Harry Markowitz began formulating his groundbreaking theories on modern portfolio management. |
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De-Mystifying Portfolio Management
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| by Jeff MonteforteIT portfolio management is made up of two basic parts that, when taken together, provide IT with an ROI roadmap, writes CIO Update guest columnist Jeff Monteforte, president of Exential. Much has been written on the topic of IT Portfolio Management. |
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Calculating Return: The Perfect Balance for a Project Portfolio
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| by Nelson Wang With budgets tight, technology managers are using tactics from the financial world to decide which projects are worth pursuing. Project portfolio management (PPM) is a way of analyzing a company's entire slate of tech projects as though they were financial investments. |
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Project Portfolio Management (PPM): Aligning business and IT
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| by Ashok Reddy Today's business organizations are increasingly using software development and IT to capture and apply knowledge that is unique to their business in order to drive innovation and make better use of limited resources. This reliance on IT to support new business initiatives is a major aspect of on-demand computing, IBM's vision for a business environment in which companies respond with flexibility and speed to any customer demand, market opportunity, or external threat. |
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Diagrams to Help Build Your Portfolio Management Skills
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| Companies must visualize their IT portfolios on multiple levels and at different stages for a true and thorough perspective of their IT investments. To gain the holistic view necessary for portfolio management, investments should be viewed in aggregate and placed into categories, with the percent of IT spend apportioned across each. |
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Return to Value
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| Align IT with corporate strategy: When every IT dollar must count, what was once a pipe dream has become a critical imperative. Portfolio management could give you the means to deliver. |
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CIOs Can Steer Enterprise Investment Strategy
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| by Ben WorthenGuy Battista smiles when he hears those recorded announcements saying, "Your call may be monitored for quality assurance. " He's been there, done that. |
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Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Project Portfolio Management
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| by Ross Pettit A critical component of IT governance is Project Portfolio Management (PPM). Effective portfolio management involves more than just collecting status reports of different projects at specific dates; it also involves projecting the delivery date, scope and cost that each project is trending towards and the impact of that projected outcome on the overall business. |
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Maximizing Return on IT Investments With Enterprise Portfolio Management
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| by San Retna In this two-part case study, San Retna, chief portfolio officer at AAA of Northern California, Nevada and Utah, demonstrates how his company applied advanced portfolio management techniques to realize in excess of 80% of expected business benefits from its corporate investments and shows how other companies can replicate this success. Companies are spending billions of dollars each year on change initiatives designed to improve corporate performance, yet there are few structured practices to manage the overall process and provide timely and accurate feedback on how effective these investments are. |
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