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Portfolio Management for New Products
Robert G. Cooper
Scott J. Edgett
Elko J. Kleinschmidt
In Portfolio Management for New Products, presents a rigorous and practical approach to managing a company's product portfolio as you would a financial portfolio-investing for maximum long-term growth. The book provides managers with the strategies they need to assess and realign their R&D operations; determine which products are most worthy of resource allocation; design and implement a portfolio management process; maximize the value of their portfolios; and recognize and solve challenges.
Product development for the Service Sector
Robert G. Cooper
Scott J. Edgett
Elko J. Kleinschmidt
In Product Development for the Service Sector, product development experts Cooper and Edgett draw from their extensive research, teaching, and consulting experience to offer service sector executives and managers a comprehensive overview of the principles of product development and how they can be successfully applied in any service industry.
Project Portfolio Management and the PMO: Multiplying ROI at Warp Speed
Gerald I. Kendall
Steven C. Rollings
This bestselling, comprehensive book provides a roadmap for achieving high value enterprise strategies and superior project management results. It provides methods for best project selection, faster completion, optimal project portfolio management, measuring the PMO explicitly, and rapidly increasing project ROI.
IT Portfolio Management Step-by-Step
Bryan Maizlisch
Robert Handler
'Bryan Maizlish and Robert Handler bring their deep experience in IT 'value realization' to one of the most absent of all IT management practices - portfolio management. They capture the essence of universally proven investment practices and apply them to the most difficult of challenges - returning high strategic and dollar payoffs from an enterprise's IT department. The reader will find many new and rewarding insights to making their IT investments finally return market leading results' - John C. Reece, Chairman and CEO, John C. Reece & Associates, LLC Former deputy commissioner for modernization and CIO of the IRS. '
Enterprise Programme Management - Delivering Value
David Williams
Tim Parr
Tim Parr and David Williams, Deloitte's co-authors of Enterprise Programme Management - Delivering Value, argue that the agile and dynamic organisation needs to develop enterprise-wide management as a core capability. This starts at board level in translating strategy into a portfolio of investment programmes. Development of structures, systems, processes and new skills to effectively manage and deliver these are critical, but seldom done successfully on an organisation-wide basis.
Successfully Managing IT Enabled Business Transformations
Dr. Andries van Dijk
Information technology decisions have to be taken more frequently, are more complex and have more impact on the business. In this changing environment, organisations are faced with complex transitions that impact business and IT alike. We call these IT enabled business transformations and in this book we describe methods and best practices for three major threads in such transformations: business-IT strategy, enterprise architecture and programme leadership.
Project Portfolio Management
Harvey A. Levine
Project Portfolio Management (PPM) goes beyond the typical project management approach to offer a set of proven business practices that can help executives, program managers, and project managers bring projects into alignment with the strategies, resources, and executive oversight of the overall enterprise. Step by step, this book shows how to take a project from the inception of a vision to the realization of benefits to the organization. Project Portfolio Management draws on project management expert Harvey A Levine's years of research and distills the knowledge and best practices from dozens of leaders in the field to show how to select and implement the projects that will garner the best results. Throughout this important resource, Levine tackles the many challenges associated with PPM, including: ranking value and benefits; determining the size of the portfolio pipeline; assessing the impact of uncertainty on projects and portfolios; understanding the benefit and risk relationship; establishing a portfolio governance capability; managing the portfolio to maximize benefits; and implementing PPM.
Practical Project Management
Harvey A. Levine
You've reached a critical phase in your project. Suddenly, your carefully planned schedule begins to fall apart and the entire project is in jeopardy. What do you do? Pick up this comprehensive, authoritative guide and flip quickly and easily to the appropriate section. There you'll find expert, practical guidance that will help you overcome the problem, minimize its impact on the project, and make sure it doesn't happen again.