Project Portfolio Optimisation vs Project Portfolio Management – What’s the difference?
Project Portfolio Optimisation vs Project Portfolio Management – What’s the difference? The focus of this article is to identify the differences between Portfolio Optimisation, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Prioritisation, and Portfolio Scheduling. It then presents a pragmatic process through which a portfolio manager can perform those activities. Ken Garrard, Founder, Kepa Software If you search the […]
Save Money with MCDM 2025
Save Money with MCDM 2025 APO has the potential to delight your Board, Executive and strategy development personnel. Many of our potential customers with large project portfolios ask us for help in answering the following questions: Of course, there are many more related and unrelated questions that could also be asked about project portfolios Opportunity […]
Getting the Team to Pull Together
This article talks about how to get everyone on the same page in terms of strategic intention, all pulling in the one direction. In business there are often barriers that prevent everyone working towards the same goals. While there is a view that all stakeholders within an organisation should be “on the same page”, commonly […]
Comparing Apples with Oranges
In today’s business environment an approach that tests only the financial aspects of a potential investment is likely to produce sub-optimal outcomes. In today’s business climate where stakeholder expectations of business drivers include environmental, customer, risk, safety, and community impacts a concentration on financial return is a simplistic approach to assessment of an investment opportunity. […]
Selecting Options from Differing Markets
This article discusses how to determine which investment option provides the greatest advantage when investment alternatives need to be measured using differing value frameworks? The locality of the investment often contributes to the criteria by which the investment is measured. Market conditions in India will impact decisions to invest there, which will be different from […]
Scenario-based Planning
The rise of the pandemic in 2019 injected uncertainty into business across the entire world Planning for the impact of COVID-19 was enabled by the business’s ability to analyse and compare investment opportunities under multivariate sets of value measures to determine their relative contribution to business value under pandemic and non-pandemic conditions. Having the capacity […]
Making ESG Disclosures Transparent
In recent years, the demand for transparent, meaningful disclosures around environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance has grown from a nice-to-have to a business imperative. Organisations can no longer rely on vague statements or broad commitments alone. Instead, stakeholders — from investors and regulators to customers and communities — expect clear evidence of how decisions […]