Do you know the right way to approach and structure portfolio management?  This course will show several examples of portfolio management, the right way to approach it, and the top 3 critical success factors.  At the end of this course, attendees will understand how portfolio engagements are best approached, the value they provide to the business and the basic technique used.

The Challenge

Today’s economic challenge requires companies to rethink how they align their project investments to support their business strategy and optimize their return on investments.  In addition, understanding the balance between investment risks versus executional risk through portfolio optimization helps organizations be better positioned to make the “right” investment or reallocation decisions.

Course Overview

Project Portfolio Management is about ensuring you have the correct mix of projects that are focused on taking the business where it has decided to go.  It is about being able to respond quickly to identified changes in the environment, enabling the business to set the direction and then create a series of tactical steps to get there.

These five days session explains the best practice approach in the industry to build and deploy a Portfolio Management framework in a realistic and workable environment. Key areas covered include:

• What Project Portfolio Management is and recognize the areas of pain
• What are your Value and Benefit propositions when you introduce Portfolio management process – author will share his experiences on the benefits derived when this process was deployed in the Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Financial Institution, R&D and Government sectors.
• How you can prepare and organize your company to accept portfolio management process as the bridge to link strategy to execution success
• How you can sponsor and lead portfolio management as a strategic change initiative