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• Who's Accountable for IT Investments? Senior Executives Need to Take Charge

  BNET - 2005-09-01

  Successful companies use the portfolio method to manage their enterprise IT projects and services. Although the complex problems facing IT management today have been some 40 years in the making, they can be fixed by any organization willing to look hard at its existing portfolio practices, understand what is not...

  Tags: PRTM, Information Technology, IT Investment, Accountability, Strategy, Management

• The Smart Bet for Global Performance

  BNET - 2005-03-09

  As the pace of globalization accelerates, Fortune 500 companies everywhere are redesigning their internal organization and implementing various types of horizontal business structures to drive greater efficiencies. One of the most popular is the core operations unit COU. This organization typically cuts across geographic regions and business units to leverage...

  Tags: PRTM, Performance, Performance Management, Globalization, Research & Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Strategy, Management, Business Operations

• Pull the Right Levers for Innovation Productivity: Get More Revenue from New Products with the Same or Lower Investment Levels

  BNET - 2004-11-01

  Innovation is vital to competitiveness, but how can companies increase the output of their innovation "engines" in the face of today's curtailments in R&D funding? The solution, as the author explains, lies in innovation productivity: working the "levers" for obtaining more innovation-driven revenue for the same or even less investment...

  Tags: Innovation, Revenue, PRTM, Leadership, Strategy, Management

• On Board the Voice-Enabled Vehicle: What's Likely?

  BNET - 2002-03-01

  The ability to interact with the vehicle via voice-issuing commands and receiving audio responses-has long occupied a central role in the telematics game plan. The vision of drivers interacting with their vehicles by talking to them in conversational tones is still only that-a vision-and perhaps a dubious one. However, there's...

  Tags: Vehicle, PRTM, Voice, Board, Telematics, Manufacturing, Games, Strategy, Personal Technology, Management

• Getting Channels Right

  BNET - 2000-01-08

  The author of this article says that the top quartile of performers, based on financial and operating performance measures, were classified as leaders, and the bottom quartile as trailers. Leaders' channel strategies consistently include such key elements as branding within the channel and matching channel, product, and market segments. It...

  Tags: Channel, PRTM, Leader, Performance Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management

• New Arrows in the Channel Quiver

  BNET - 1998-01-08

  This article explains the six principles, placing each in a real-life business context. In the course of the article, advice is offered on topics ranging from successful brand-channel alignment to adjusting the sales and marketing organization as necessary in order to support the selected channel strategy. Read on to know...

  Tags: PRTM, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Management

• An Integrated Approach to Managing Business Segments

  BNET - 1995-05-01

  The article explains the four standard process elements of PRTM's Business Excellence through Segment Teams approach, which has been successfully applied in a number of different industries. The standard approach has been to reorganize the company into a number of business units, with their own management teams and accountabilities. Read...

  Tags: PRTM, Team Management, Financial Accounting, Strategy, Management, Finance

• Significant Development Chain Advances for Automotive Manufacturer

  BNET

  A $20 billion division of a major automotive manufacturer needed to address overall competitiveness in the face of increasing globalization and accelerating technological change. A strategic assessment by senior management indicated several actions the company needed to take: invest in knowledge-intensive value-chain elements; execute an asset reduction strategy; and build...

  Tags: PRTM, Globalization, Manufacturing, Asset Management, Strategy, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Portfolio Management Guides Product Development for Biomedical Technology Leader

  BNET

  A $300M developer of biomedical research technology was struggling to identify a long-term product road map that would raise company revenues to $1B. Building off the company's existing product development program, PRTM implemented a comprehensive portfolio management process for guiding decisions surrounding the company's five-year product road map. PRTM also...

  Tags: PRTM, Leader, Decision-making, Biomedical, Portfolio Management, Product Road Map, Product Development, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Healthcare, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management

• Critical Project Recovery for Genomics Alliance

  BNET

  Three firms - a major chemical manufacturer, an agricultural concern, and a biotechnology company - formed an alliance to implement a new high-throughput biotechnology development process. The alliance asked PRTM to facilitate interim project execution as a way to save the project. PRTM worked with each alliance core team to...

  Tags: Alliance, PRTM, Recovery, Biotechnology, Strategy, Management