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Strategic Portfolio Alignment for Greater Revenue and Profitability: A manufacturer of optical telecommunications systems needed a product development process that would help it to maintain its time-to-market advantage while increasing product quality and reducing overall development costs. The manufacturer faced product development challenges in four key areas: portfolio planning and management, product-line planning and management, project execution and...; Tags: Product marketing, PRTM, product development, manufacturer, telecommunications; Case studies
Recognizing the Value of IT portfolio management: In the rush to cut technology spending as the recession took hold, much Information Technology (IT) executives have found themselves focusing on emergencies and daily blocking and tackling rather than long-term strategic planning. The leads to short-term job security and dwindling control over those spending initiatives that were left. The...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Strategy, Protiviti, Strategic Planning, Excel spreadsheet, information technology, job, Web site, Web; White papers
portfolio management Says Adios to Bad Projects: If a person thinks project portfolio management sounds like something that's strictly for large companies, the person needs to think again. A person is likely to find that the approach works just as well for his or her mid-size professional services firm as it does for the big guys. With...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., project portfolio management, professional services, decision-making; White papers
Integrating Knowledge Management, Project Management and portfolio management: Many organizations consider a project successful if it is completed on time and on budget. But what if it was the wrong project to begin with? What if the deliverables don't meet the expectations of the customer or organization? What if the organization is not even working on the right...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Business intelligence, project management, knowledge management, knowledge, tool; White papers
Integrating Project and portfolio management: The first leans toward the use of project management software, which is designed to manage the granular details of project life cycles, resources, and budgets. Maintaining a focus on the critical specifics of the individual projects, however, comes somewhat at the expense of the "Big picture." These solutions excel in...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Corp., IT governance, IT investment, Software Solution, project management, information technology, software, strategy; White papers

Forecasting For Supply Chain And portfolio management: Material imbalances at some companies have been traced to the procedures they use for forecasting demand based on the usual normality assumption. In this paper we discuss a simple and easy to implent nonparametric technique to forecast the demand distribution based on statistical learning, and ordering policies based on it,...; Tags: Sales force management, University of Michigan, forecasting, supply chain, technique; White papers 2006-11-01
Asset and Liability Management Model: Common portfolio management models deal with the maximization of the financial well being of an investor or institution. Passive portfolio management lacks flexibility and foresight, two elements of prominent significance in today's highly volatile financial markets. The paper reveals about the active portfolio management which, nowadays, is gaining momentum among...; Tags: Financial accounting, University of Arizona, portfolio management, investment strategy, financial, financial market, asset; White papers 2004-11-10
Towards An Approach For Managing The Development Portfolio In Small Product-Oriented Software Companies: Managing product development activities as an explicit portfolio is crucial to the long-term success of product-oriented software companies. Portfolio management has been studied in the field of new product development for over two decades, but existing approaches transfer poorly to small software companies due to contextual differences. Based on new...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Product marketing, Development tools, portfolio management, New Product Development, software company, software engineering, product development, software development, decision-making, software; White papers 2004-09-14
Application portfolio management: It's Pricey, But for Some Companies, It's Worth It: With multiple tasks, limited resources, and frequent understaffing, IT departments naturally have to let some things slide. One of the tasks frequently relegated to the back burner is application management, and companies tend to suffer higher costs over the long run because of it. Application portfolio management is designed to...; Tags: application management, satellite, storage, information technology, tool; White papers 2004-04-09
Product portfolio management In Small Software Product Businesses - A Tentative Research Agenda: Product portfolio management is crucial to product-oriented software companies' long-term success but is mostly overlooked by current software engineering research. This paper presents preliminary results from a multiple case study on the state-of-the-practice and improvement of product portfolio management processes in three small product-oriented software companies. Findings suggest that implementing...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, portfolio management, software product, software engineering, software company, product development, software; White papers 2004-03-09
Activity Level: From the executive summary: ‘The active/passive dichotomy generally applies to how individual assets are managed. The paper attempts to extend the discussion to how equity funds themselves (whether passive or active) are managed within a portfolio. Active portfolio management suggests frequent reviews potentially leading to fund changes or reallocations among...; Tags: Thomson Corp., portfolio management, equity, asset; White papers 2004-01-01
Analyze This: From the executive summary: ‘The growing allegiance to IT portfolio management is not hard to fathom. Historically, large technology projects have been real dogs for businesses, with an abysmal failure rate. What is more, a drop in corporate revenues over the past few years has brought increased discipline to technology...; Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., ROI, finance, information technology, tool; White papers 2003-12-01
Institutional Investment Management: A Comparison of portfolio management Expenses of Mutual Funds and Defined Benefit Pension Plans: The expenses borne by mutual funds for portfolio management are roughly the same as the expenses incurred by public pension plans for external management of their portfolios. The paper concludes that mutual funds overpaid for portfolio management is based on the inclusion of business, administrative, and other expenses in their...; Tags: Mutual funds, Retirement plans, Investment, Investment Company Institute, mutual fund, portfolio management, defined benefit pension plan, pension plan; White papers 2003-11-01
Note on Venture Capital portfolio management: Portfolio management describes the process investors use to analyze information, make decisions and commit resources to improve or protect the value of their investments. This note is organized into two parts: Part I explains typical processes Venture Capitalists ("VCs") use to manage their portfolios; and part II explains how the...; Tags: Investment, Dartmouth College, venture capital; White papers 2003-08-12
Playing With Fire: From the executive summary: 'The hardest part of risk, especially for CIOs, is that it does not provide concrete answers. Risk analysis will not tell which project to do. But, it will indicate, which ones fall into a certain level of risk and payoff.' Likewise, portfolio management also helps in...; Tags: Strategy, International Data Group, portfolio management, risk analysis; White papers 2003-07-01
The Risk in Hedge Fund Strategies: Alternative Alphas and Alternative Betas: Hedge fund managers typically transact in similar asset markets to those used by conventional fund managers. Yet, there is much documented evidence that hedge funds have different return characteristics than those of conventional asset class managers. Some authors have attributed this apparent dilemma to the skill-based nature of hedge fund...; Tags: Investment, Asset management, Financial services, hedge fund, asset, strategy; White papers 2003-06-02
portfolio management: How To Do It Right: Managing a project is not a cakewalk. The process calls for reviewing the project details, scrutinizing through the client’s specifications, and then devising an effective project plan. However, not many companies follow the aforesaid regime; as a result, the companies have to cut a sorry figure in the global market....; Tags: International Data Group, information technology; White papers 2003-05-01
Improving The Consistency Of Business Performance Through portfolio management: The presentation tells about portfolio management and its application to tangible (relatively illiquid) assets like Oil & Gas Asset management, Pharmaceutical R&D, Chemical production and Real Estate property management. It provides insights into specific decisions. The application of portfolio management concepts are also mentioned. It clearly describes the goals...; Tags: Performance management, Portfolio Decisions Inc., property management, real estate, R&D, performance, asset; White papers 2003-04-02
Differentiation For The Long Haul : Technology Leadership Makes The Difference Between Products That Matter And 'Me Too' Commodities: Many R&D leaders have reached the point of diminishing returns in their efforts to improve the product integration process. To achieve further time-to-market reductions,and,moreover, to introduce products with more durable bases of technological and market advantage , companies need to look upstream in their development chains . They must, in...; Tags: differentiation, portfolio management, technology investment, vector, decision-making, R&D; White papers 2000-04-01
Project Management Tools: A New Look: The project management arena is not new. People have used project management software to automate the administration of their projects for years. What is new, however, is what these tools are now addressing - portfolio management, improving best practices and providing for collaboration among disparate development teams. When discussing portfolio...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, portfolio management, project management, bond, best practice, collaboration, finance, stock, tool; White papers 2003-02-28