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| benefits of application portfolio management: Agile Portfolio Management Jochen Krebs, 2008-07-16 Agile development processes foster better collaboration, innovation, and results. So why limit their use to software projects—when you can transform your entire business? Written by agile-mentoring expert Jochen Krebs, this book illuminates the opportunities—and rewards—of applying agile processes to your overall IT portfolio. Whether project manager, business analyst, or executive—you’ll understand the business drivers behind agile portfolio management. And learn best practices for optimizing results. Use agile processes to align IT and business strategy Adapt and extend core agile processes Orchestrate the collaboration between IT and business vision Eliminate wish-list driven requirements, and manage expectations instead Optimize the balance of projects, resources, and assets in your portfolio Use metrics to communicate project status, quality, even team morale Create a portfolio strategy consistent with the goals of the organization Achieve organizational and process transparency Manage your business with agility—and help maximize the returns! |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Managing Benefits Steve Jenner, APMG International, 2014-09-29 Projects and programmes should achieve a return on the investment made by the owner or sponsor. This return is now thought of as the benefits that accrue from the investment: some financial, others perhaps harder to define, but nonetheless just as important in justifying the investment. Making sure that they are realised, and that unanticipated benefits are maximised, is as important as the initial justification, and without that many projects have earned a bad name for project management. This publication provides comprehensive guidance on how to manage delivery of the benefits used to justify investment in change. It provides guidance for all involved in successful change delivery from senior responsible owners and directors through to portfolio, programme and project managers. The guidance is the source material for an accredited qualification from APMG-International |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Leveraging the New Infrastructure Peter Weill, Marianne Broadbent, 1998 One of the most important investments in an organization is its information technology (IT) infrastructure. Yet many managers are ill-prepared to make sound IT investment decisions. Drawing upon rigorous research with over 100 businesses in 75 firms in nine countries, the authors here present a wide range of IT possibilities, enabling managers to take control of decisions that many have relegated to technical staff or vendors. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: The Art of Consultative Selling in IT Venkatesh Upadrista, 2017-07-27 If IT companies seek to differentiate themselves from the competition, they must turn to consultative selling. Consultative selling is analyzing the needs and challenges of your customers and selling unique services that enable your customers to reduce costs, increase profits, and improve overall business performance. The Art of Consultative Selling in IT provides a practical framework for becoming a successful consultative seller and shows how to use the blue ocean strategy to identify opportunities in areas where there is no competition.The first section discusses the advantages of consultative selling and explores the concepts of blue oceans. In blue oceans, demand is created rather than fought over. Competition is irrelevant because the rules of the game are waiting to be established. The author explains how you can use consultative selling techniques to create your own blue oceans of unknown market space, where opportunities for growth are both rapid and profitable.In the second section, the author defines the consultative selling framework (CSF). This framework is based on proven processes, best practices, and real-time case studies to make consultative selling a reality. It provides clear guidelines for understanding your customer‘s current landscape and challenges, owning its priorities, and helping it to achieve its short-term and long-term goals. The author explains how to use CSF to generate innovative ideas and present them to your customer through profit improvement or efficiency improvement proposals.The book concludes with examples of several innovative business improvement ideas that you can present to your customers, including Agile project management, master data management (MDM), application portfolio rationalization, and business process management (BPM). The author discusses the benefits of each methodology and lists the trigger points to think about when deciding whether the methodolo |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Information Resources Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications Management Association, Information Resources, 2010-04-30 This work is a comprehensive, four-volume reference addressing major issues, trends, and areas for advancement in information management research, containing chapters investigating human factors in IT management, as well as IT governance, outsourcing, and diffusion--Provided by publisher. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Portfolio Management Shan Rajegopal, 2012-11-28 In Portfolio Management , Shan Rajegopal, a leading authority on innovation and project portfolio management, provides an integrated project portfolio management framework which links innovation, investment and implementation. A successful tried and tested method, this blueprint will be a hands-on guide for business executives. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: IT (Information Technology) Portfolio Management Step-by-Step Bryan Maizlish, Robert Handler, 2010-10-07 Praise for IT Portfolio Management Step-by-Step 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 IT Portfolio Management describes in great detail the critical aspects, know-how, practical examples, key insights, and best practices to improve operational efficiency, corporate agility, and business competitiveness. It eloquently illustrates the methods of building and integrating a portfolio of IT investments to ensure the realization of maximum value and benefit, and to fully leverage the value of all IT assets. Whether you are getting started or building on your initial success in IT portfolio management, this book will provide you information on how to build and implement an effective IT portfolio management strategy. --David Mitchell, President and CEO, webMethods, Inc. I found IT Portfolio Management very easy to read, and it highlights many of the seminal aspects and best practices from financial portfolio management. It is an important book for executive, business, and IT managers. --Michael J. Montgomery, President, Montgomery & Co. IT Portfolio Management details a comprehensive framework and process showing how to align business and IT for superior value. Maizlish and Handler have the depth of experience, knowledge, and insight needed to tackle the challenges and opportunities companies face in optimizing their IT investment portfolios. This is an exceptionally important book for executive leadership and IT business managers, especially those wanting to build a process-managed enterprise. --Peter Fingar, Executive Partner Greystone Group, coauthor of The Real-Time Enterprise and Business Process Management (BPM): The Third Wave A must-read for the non-IT manager who needs to understand the complexity and challenges of managing an IT portfolio. The portfolio management techniques, analysis tools, and planning can be applied to any project or function. --Richard Max Maksimoski, Senior Director R&D, The Scotts Company This book provides an excellent framework and real-world based approach for implementing IT portfolio management. It is a must-read for every CIO staff considering how to strategically and operationally impact their company's bottom line. --Donavan R. Hardenbrook, New Product Development Professional, Intel Corporation |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Advanced Project Portfolio Management and the PMO Gerald I. Kendall, Steven C. Rollins, 2003-04-15 Advanced Project Portfolio Management is a comprehensive book which presents a roadmap for the achievement of high value enterprise strategies and superior project management results. It provides methods for best project selection, faster completion, optimal project portfolio management, and how to explicitly measure the PMO for rapidly increasing project ROI. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management Anand Sanwal, 2007-07-30 If where an organization allocates its resources determines its strategy, why is it that so few companies actively manage the resource allocation process? Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management: Aligning Investment Proposals with Organizational Strategy goes beyond platitudes about why you should use corporate portfolio management (CPM) by offering a practical methodology to bring this powerful discipline to your organization. Optimizing Corporate Portfolio Management takes an expansive view of where CPM can be utilized by demonstrating that it can be used across any business line, product group or functional area, e.g., IT, R&D, innovation, marketing, salesforce, capital expenditure, etc. CPM is appropriate anywhere discretionary investments are being selected and executed. As a result, other terms used to describe portfolio management such as IT portfolio management, enterprise portfolio management, and project portfolio management are all merely subsets or slices of CPM. The book is written by Anand Sanwal, an expert on CPM, who has led American Express' CPM discipline (referred to as American Express Investment Optimization). American Express' CPM efforts are widely recognized as the most extensive, substantial and progressive deployment of CPM across any organization. Sanwal avoids academic theories and consultant jargon to ultimately deliver pragmatic and proven recommendations on how to make CPM a reality. The book features a foreword by Gary Crittenden, former CFO and EVP of American Express, and several case studies from leading financial services, technology, and government organizations utilizing CPM. Additionally, the book has received significant praise from thought leaders at Google, HP, American Express, The CFO Executive Board, Gartner, Accenture Marketing Sciences, The Wharton School of Business and many others. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Benefits Management John Ward, Elizabeth Daniel, 2012-07-18 The second edition of Benefits Management has been updated with current examples, further insights from experience and recent research. It shows how the enduring challenges achieving business value from information systems and technology projects can be addressed successfully. The approach, which is synthesized from best practices, sound theories and proven techniques from a range of management disciplines, is exemplified from the authors' extensive experience of working with a wide range of organizations. The book includes examples from a wide variety of projects including non-IT projects. The book is written in an accessible style, ideal for practicing managers, and includes check lists and templates for using the processes, tools and techniques and real-life case studies of their application and impacts. The book now also includes: International survey results that reinforce the importance of the topic, the key management issues and evidence of how the more successful organizations' practices are closely aligned with those described in the book. A Benefits Management Maturity diagnostic which enables organizations to understand the reasons for their current investment success levels and then how to increase them. Discussion of the role and contribution Project Management Offices (PMOs): how they can improve the delivery of value IT projects. Further practical advice and guidance on Program and Portfolio Management, including findings from the authors’ recent research in several large organizations. |
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| benefits of application portfolio management: Application Management Grande-Bretagne. Office of Government Commerce, Great Britain. Office of Government Commerce, 2002 Addresses the complex subject of managing applications from the initial business need, through the Application Management lifecycle, up to and including retirement. - page 3. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Portfolio Decision Analysis Ahti Salo, Jeffrey Keisler, Alec Morton, 2011-08-12 Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation provides an extensive, up-to-date coverage of decision analytic methods which help firms and public organizations allocate resources to 'lumpy' investment opportunities while explicitly recognizing relevant financial and non-financial evaluation criteria and the presence of alternative investment opportunities. In particular, it discusses the evolution of these methods, presents new methodological advances and illustrates their use across several application domains. The book offers a many-faceted treatment of portfolio decision analysis (PDA). Among other things, it (i) synthesizes the state-of-play in PDA, (ii) describes novel methodologies, (iii) fosters the deployment of these methodologies, and (iv) contributes to the strengthening of research on PDA. Portfolio problems are widely regarded as the single most important application context of decision analysis, and, with its extensive and unique coverage of these problems, this book is a much-needed addition to the literature. The book also presents innovative treatments of new methodological approaches and their uses in applications. The intended audience consists of practitioners and researchers who wish to gain a good understanding of portfolio decision analysis and insights into how PDA methods can be leveraged in different application contexts. The book can also be employed in courses at the post-graduate level. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: The Handbook of Project Portfolio Management Dennis Lock, Reinhard Wagner, 2018-10-09 Managing large and complex organizations; balancing the needs of business-as-usual, new products and services and business change; assuring risk across everything the business does; these are all core requirements of modern business which are provided by the discipline of portfolio management. The Handbook of Project Portfolio Management is the definitive publication that introduces and describes in detail project portfolio management in today’s ever-changing world. The handbook contains the essential knowledge required for managing portfolios of business change with real-life examples that are being used by today’s organizations in various industries and environments. The team of expert contributors includes many of the most experienced and highly regarded international writers and practitioners from the global project portfolio management industry, selected to provide the reader with examples, knowledge and the skills required to manage portfolios in any organization. Dennis Lock and Reinhard Wagner’s definitive reference on project portfolio management explains: the context and role of the discipline; the practical processes, tools and techniques required for managing portfolios successfully; the capability required and how to develop it. The text also covers the recognized standards as well as emerging issues such as sustainability and environment. Collectively, this is a must-have guide from the leading commentators and practitioners on project portfolio management from across the world. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: ASL® 2 - A Framework for Application Management Remko van der Pols, 2020-06-09 Note: This book is available in several languages: Dutch, English. For trainers free additional material of this book is available. This can be found under the Training Material tab. Log in with your trainer account to access the material. Domain process framework for application management. This book describes the application management processes as recognized by ASL. It also describes the finer details of these processes. This book is also used by the ASL BiSL Foundation in order to determine what ASL is. This book has been written with the assumption that the reader is familiar with application management, with how it is executed, and with the activities concerned. It contains tips and suggestions to assist in the implementation of processes, Therefore it can be used as a starting point from which to set up application management processes. The ASL 2 framework supports the implementation of application management, supported by additional best practices; these can be found on the website of the ASL BiSL Foundation. See: www.aslbislfoundation.org ASL 2 aligns with other frameworks e.g. ITIL? and BiSL? (for Business information management). The following topics are addressed in this book: Introduction to the main structure of ASL 2; Description of all ASL 2 clusters; Introduction to the implementation of ASL 2; Frequently Asked Questions on the ASL 2 framework; Changes between ASL version 1 and ASL 2. This book is the official core study guide for the ASL 2 Foundation exam. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Effective Cybersecurity William Stallings, 2018-07-20 The Practical, Comprehensive Guide to Applying Cybersecurity Best Practices and Standards in Real Environments In Effective Cybersecurity, William Stallings introduces the technology, operational procedures, and management practices needed for successful cybersecurity. Stallings makes extensive use of standards and best practices documents that are often used to guide or mandate cybersecurity implementation. Going beyond these, he offers in-depth tutorials on the “how” of implementation, integrated into a unified framework and realistic plan of action. Each chapter contains a clear technical overview, as well as a detailed discussion of action items and appropriate policies. Stallings offers many pedagogical features designed to help readers master the material: clear learning objectives, keyword lists, review questions, and QR codes linking to relevant standards documents and web resources. Effective Cybersecurity aligns with the comprehensive Information Security Forum document “The Standard of Good Practice for Information Security,” extending ISF’s work with extensive insights from ISO, NIST, COBIT, other official standards and guidelines, and modern professional, academic, and industry literature. • Understand the cybersecurity discipline and the role of standards and best practices • Define security governance, assess risks, and manage strategy and tactics • Safeguard information and privacy, and ensure GDPR compliance • Harden systems across the system development life cycle (SDLC) • Protect servers, virtualized systems, and storage • Secure networks and electronic communications, from email to VoIP • Apply the most appropriate methods for user authentication • Mitigate security risks in supply chains and cloud environments This knowledge is indispensable to every cybersecurity professional. Stallings presents it systematically and coherently, making it practical and actionable. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO William Bentley, Peter T. Davis, 2009-09-25 Going beyond the usual how-to guide, Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO supplies proven tips and valuable case studies that illustrate how to combine Six Sigma's rigorous quality principles with Lean methods for uncovering and eliminating waste in IT processes. Using these methods, the text explains how to take an approach that is all about im |
| benefits of application portfolio management: The Strategic Management of Information Systems Joe Peppard, John Ward, 2016-04-18 A comprehensively updated revision of a book regarded by many as one the leading and authoritative titles for practitioners, academics and students in the domain of information systems and technology (IS/IT) strategy. Presents a structured framework with tools, techniques and ways of thinking which provide a practical approach to building a digital strategy, expressed primarily in the language of business and management. Brings together the implications of the significant advances in IT and the most useful current thinking, research, and experiences concerning the business impact and strategic opportunities created by IS/IT. Peppard and Ward discuss the key questions that managers have to grapple with of where, when and how to invest in IS/IT, which is why a IS/IT (or digital) strategy is required. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Project Portfolio Management Harvey A. Levine, 2010-09-29 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 Implementing PPM |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Turnaround Avery Cloud, 2011-03-08 Turnaround is a technique rich exposeacute; about improving the information technology service management structure of an information technology department. It provides easy to follow steps for improving the performance of any IT department, especially one that is in crisis. Turnaround also provides contextually relevant stories that paint real world pictures of IT leader challenges from which the reader can draw valuable lessons and consider solutions for the problems IT leaders often face. Many of the examples presented in Turnaround are health care industry oriented; however, having spent nearly half his career in global manufacturing and consumer goods, and the latter half in health care, the author has found that the fundamentals of information service management are essentially the same everywhere. The business vocabularies, business processes, products and services differ; but once you enter the halls of the IT department, you still find servers, operating systems, help desks, networks, telephony, and the necessary IT disciplines to manage them. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Information management Leslie Willcocks, 2013-11-11 Survey and study background In an effort to gain some answers on the 1ST capital investment (project selection) decision criteria used in practice, a survey was undertaken in 1990 of 80 American, British, Australian and New Zealand companies. A one-page survey form was used that provided 15 possible 1ST investment criteria, a means of indicating whether they are used or not, the percentage of projects to which each criterion is applied, and an overall ranking in terms of total project value for each criterion. The criteria are shown in Table 2.1. The criteria are categorized into financial, management, and development criteria. They were developed, first, through interviews with some 20 chief information officers (CIOs) in Britain and the United States. These CIOs were questioned on what criteria their organizations use in selecting 1ST investment projects, with the aim of developing a full list of the criteria used in practice. Secondly, the criteria and the form were tested and refined in a pilot study with some 12 companies. The criteria used in the survey and listed in Table 2.1 are primary level criteria. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Strategic Information Technology and Portfolio Management Tan, Albert Wee Kwan, Theodorou, Petros, 2009-03-31 The objectives of the proposed book are to provide techniques and tools appropriate for building application portfolios and develop strategies that increase financial performance--Provided by publisher. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Project Portfolio Management Shan Rajegopal, Philip McGuin, James Waller, 2007-03-19 Many companies and organisations are faced with a portfolio of projects that need to be managed effectively and successfully. This new book by leading practitioners introduces a framework and range of tools to enable the project portfolio to be strategically managed including establishing guidelines, prioritising, aligning projects with strategy, balancing the portfolio and sustaining a change culture through continuous improvement. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Dr. Richard Bayney, Ram Chakravarti, 2012-08-11 This unique guide and professional reference presents a structured framework for practitioners and students of project, program, and portfolio management to enhance their strategic and analytic capabilities in the evolving discipline of project portfolio management (PPM). It provides a practical, step-by-step approach to building competencies in categorizing, evaluating, optimizing, prioritizing, and managing an IT, pharmaceutical, biotech or other complex R&D-oriented portfolio of investments. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Digitally Supported Innovation Leonardo Caporarello, Fabrizio Cesaroni, Raphael Giesecke, Michele Missikoff, 2016-07-27 This book provides a broad overview of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-supported innovation both on an evidence-based level, a theoretical and a methodological level. It presents multi-disciplinary perspectives on organizational innovation in enterprises and the public sector, and on the ubiquitous social media-based user innovations. The book especially highlights innovation in knowledge work and human-computer interaction, innovation of and in socio-technical systems, and user-based innovation in public services. It draws upon evidence from various areas of application, including innovative mobility and the factories of the future. The studies presented here will be helpful both for innovation scholars and practitioners in industry – as well as innovators at large – in their current and future studies and undertakings. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Project Portfolio Management EPMC, Inc., 2011-11-16 Written by ten successful project portfolio managers from companies including AAA, Boeing, Franklin Templeton, Johnson & Johnson, Safeway, and the UK Government, this easy-to-follow guide takes you through the project portfolio management process. It's based on what actually works, giving you a clear road map and the tools needed to determine the optimal mix and sequencing of projects in order to meet your organization's goals. The book begins by explaining basic PPM principles and why PPM is more critical than ever for business success. This introduction is followed by a story, tracking the experiences of a manager new to PPM as he discovers the issues that all of us face in trying to get traction with our PPM initiatives. In answering the questions our story raises, the book then details each step of the PPM process, using cases and examples drawn from the authors' first hand experience to help you address such key questions as: Which projects should our organization invest in? How can we optimize our organization's capacity? How well are we executing the PPM process? Can our organization absorb all the changes that our PPM plan requires? Are we achieving all the expected benefits? The authors are all members of the Enterprise Portfolio Management Council, a group of senior portfolio management executives dedicated to helping organizations develop their own portfolio management capabilities. Now you can benefit from their collective wisdom and experience, and duplicate their successful results within your own organization. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Technology Strategy Patterns Eben Hewitt, 2018-10-15 Technologists who want their ideas heard, understood, and funded are often told to speak the language of businessâ??without really knowing what that is. This bookâ??s toolkit provides architects, product managers, technology managers, and executives with a shared languageâ??in the form of repeatable, practical patterns and templatesâ??to produce great technology strategies. Author Eben Hewitt developed 39 patterns over the course of a decade in his work as CTO, CIO, and chief architect for several global tech companies. With these proven tools, you can define, create, elaborate, refine, and communicate your architecture goals, plans, and approach in a way that executives can readily understand, approve, and execute. This book covers: Architecture and strategy: Adopt a strategic architectural mindset to make a meaningful material impact Creating your strategy: Define the components of your technology strategy using proven patterns Communicating the strategy: Convey your technology strategy in a compelling way to a variety of audiences Bringing it all together: Employ patterns individually or in clusters for specific problems; use the complete framework for a comprehensive strategy |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Making IT Governance Work in a Sarbanes-Oxley World Jaap Bloem, Menno van Doorn, Piyush Mittal, 2005-10-13 This book discusses a dilemma common to many corporation’s IT departments--the tension between top-down governance directives and the challenge to get everything properly functioning on a bottom-up basis. Making IT governance work does not simply mean adherence to an ABC of (a) going more deeply into rules, (b) implementing a framework, and (c) registering good results. Neither is this book a guide to frameworks and compliance. Its goal is to describe an entire repertoire of resources that can assist in arriving at better IT governance. Among these resources are CobiT, bottom-up governance principles such as distributed leadership constitute another, and portfolio management. This book provides a realistic governance of information and IT in corporations. The authors' view is that new technology can only achieve its optimum impact when it is properly managed. Money and behavior are key factors: the money that information and IT must generate and the activity and latitude of people in the organization from top to bottom. This book: Presents a clear view on the relationship of corporate governance and IT governance. Provides recent Sarbanes-Oxley history and the compliance consequences for organizations. Offers in-depth insight into IT portfolio management. Provides an overview of various IT governance opinions from such groups as Gartner, Forrester, and IT Governance Institute. Energetic, thoughtful and highly informative, this book provides a valuable and timely guide to IT governance and the complexities of IT management in an increasingly regulated world. The authors are great at focusing on the things that really matter for practitioners. The book is also very readable. Leslie P. Willcocks Professor of Technology, Work and Globalization London School of Economics |
| benefits of application portfolio management: IT Success! Michael Gentle, 2007-10-29 “Fifty years after the birth of corporate computing, IT today is still characterized by 50-70% project failure rates. Which is pretty scary when you come to think of it: either a goblin has cast a spell on a whole profession – or that profession is doing something fundamentally wrong”. IT Success! challenges the widespread assumption that an IT department is like a building contractor whose project managers, architects and engineers (all construction industry terms…) are supposed to deliver systems on schedule, within budget and to spec. Michael Gentle explains why this is not possible, and turns conventional wisdom on its head by showing that: you cannot define an IT project in terms of contractual budgets and schedules anything can change during the life of a project what is eventually delivered can never be what is actually needed He proposes a new model for IT in which the traditional client/vendor relationship, with its contractual commitments, is replaced by a shared risk/reward partnership geared towards workable results over time. Using real-world examples and a case study, the author walks you through the end-to-end processes of an IT department, covering subjects like demand management, investment planning, agile development and managing production applications. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Mastering Project Portfolio Management Michael J. Bible, Susan Bivins, Susan S. Bivins, 2011-09-15 This unique text provides a holistic systems approach to project portfolio management which includes people, processes, tools, and techniques that work synergistically to produce portfolio decisions with the best chance of success. Accompanied by decision support software and advanced decision making techniques, it guides readers step-by-step through the entire project portfolio management process. This professional guide is also ideal for executive continuing education programs, and as a primary text for graduate level academic courses. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Event Portfolio Management Vladimir Antchak, Vassilios Ziakas, Donald Getz, 2019-09-01 A concise introduction to portfolio theory and methods for use in event management and event tourism. Divided into 2 parts of ‘Theory’ and ‘Practice’ it explains why it is important in event studies and management, and then shows how related methods can be used and adapted using real world international case studies. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Taming Change with Portfolio Management Pat Durbin, Terry Doerscher, 2010 A guide that shows how any organisation can harness the power of change by applying the cutting-edge discipline of portfolio management. Features: Enormous potential audience. The authors provide software and software services to over 500,000 individuals world-wide. In addition, the authors will use the book for presentations to senior members of the Project Management Institute, an organisation with over 500,000 members in more than 170 countries; A user-friendly introduction to a tremendously powerful management system. With clever graphics and case studies drawn from the authors' fifty years of combined experience, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking an effective and adaptable approach to managing organisations in a world of constant change; The first book to show companies how to unify the portfolio management process. While hundreds of books have been written about various portions of this system, this is the first book to synthesise all the information into one definitive treatment and expand the scope of project portfolio management to company--wide applications. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Capabilities for Strategic Advantage D. Birchall, G. Tovstiga, 2005-05-16 In a competitive environment rivals will quickly respond to changes and improvements. This new contribution demonstrates that companies need to have a methodology for developing strategy with regard to future technology. New technology needs to be integrated into a strategic process and companies who are able to establish the capabilities to achieve this will secure robust competitive advantage. This powerful new approach will be demonstrated with examples and cases. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Network World , 2002-04-01 For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Applying Architecture and Ontology to the Splitting and Allying of Enterprises Martinus Op 't Land, 2008 |
| benefits of application portfolio management: Project Portfolio Management Lowell D. Dye, James S. Pennypacker, 1999 Selecting the right projects to work on is critical in gaining a competitive edge in today's marketplace. Learn about portfolio management tools, techniques, and methods in this collection of articles from leaders in the field like David Cleland, Robert Cooper, Thomas Saaty, David Frame, Steven Wheelwright, and others. Case studies and best practices show you how others successfully manage their portfolios. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: The PMOSIG's Program Management Office Handbook Craig J. Letavec, Dennis Bolles, 2011 This handbook developed by the Project Management Institutes Program Management Office Specific Interest Group (PMOSIG) provides practical guidance to the project Management and PMO community on a variety of topics in the areas of: PMO Strategic and Tactical Management, PMO Governance, PMO Services, PMO Set-up and Execution, and PMO Performance and Maturity. It features insightful contributions from more than 20 subject matter experts, successful practitioners, distinguished authors and thought leaders with a variety of backgrounds and experiences from around the World. The authors include best practices and case studies for successfully aligning PMOs to business objectives, and delivering benefits/ROI, as well as numerous proven tools, templates, policies, procedures, standards, methodologies and processes for successfully developing, and managing PMOs and for expanding their scope of services. |
| benefits of application portfolio management: From Business Strategy to IT Action Robert J. Benson, Tom Bugnitz, 2004-04-26 From Business Strategy to IT Action gives companies of all sizes the tools to effectively link IT to business strategy and produce effective, actionable strategies for bottom-line results. The authors present CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, and IT managers with a powerful and accessible resource packed with such useful material as: * The Strategy-to-Bottom-Line Value Chain, which integrates the management practices relating to planning, prioritization, alignment, and assessing a company's entire IT budget * Methods for using IT Impact Management to establish IT culture and performance models for the business/IT connection * The IT Improvement Zone, which quickly identifies where a company can focus its energies for maximum results * And much more |
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| benefits of application portfolio management: Project Portfolio Management Strategies for Effective Organizational Operations Romano, Luca, 2017-01-30 Continuous improvements in project portfolio management have allowed for optimized strategic planning and business process improvement. This not only leads to more streamlined processes, methods, and technologies, but it increases the overall productivity of companies. Project Portfolio Management Strategies for Effective Organizational Operations is a key resource on the latest advances and research regarding strategic initiatives for portfolio and program management. Highlighting multidisciplinary studies on value creation, portfolio governance and communication, and integrated circular models, this publication is an ideal reference source for professionals, researchers, business managers, consultants, and university students in economics, management, and engineering. |
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APM is the practice of managing and optimizing business application inventories to achieve business strategies. What business applications do we own & what’s the cost? Which …
Application Portfolio Management - Texas
APM Benefits: The key benefit of APM is to provide a complete inventory of an Agency’s business applications and the resources (e.g., budget, staff time, infrastructure) required to provide …
Application Portfolio Management - Emids
Knowing and understanding your application portfolio (inventory and associated costs) is required in order to make rationalization decisions. But, there is much more
Lower Cost and Increase Business Agility with Application …
Application portfolio management (APM) is a repeating process using information and analytics that produces objective and transparent decisions around investing, consolidating, …
FACTSHEET Application Portfolio Management - Software AG
IT management, business stakeholders, and domain architects can analyze the portfolio along multiple dimensions, such as technology health, cost, risk, usage and business fit. A multitude …
Application Portfolio Management - ServiceNow
When undertaking an application rationalization program, Application Portfolio Management plays a vital role in driving efficiency and lowering costs, and improving alignment of the application …
Application Portfolio Management Foundations - OpenText
Transform your application portfolio into a cohesive service catalog aligned to your business capabilities by discovering, rationalizing, and modernizing your applications while improving …
APPLICATION PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT - Welcome to the …
Application portfolio Management drives business value through the governance of Medtronic's enterprise applications and the lifecycle process from creation to disposal.
Application Portfolio Management - Texas
The key benefit of APM is to provide a complete inventory of an Agency’s business applications and the resources (e.g., budget, staff time, infrastructure) required to provide operational …
Developments in Practice XXXIV: Application Portfolio …
APM is the ongoing management process of categorization, assessment and rationalization of the IT application portfolio which allows organizations to identify which applications to maintain, …
The 5 steps to application portfolio management - ServiceNow
By addressing the issue, organizations can: Manage digital assets as an integrated portfolio geared to optimize business performance. Proactively manage the lifecycle of each asset and …
Application Portfolio Management in Action - IBM
Application portfolio management (APM) is a repeating process using information and analytics that produces objective and transparent decisions around investing, consolidating, …
Application Portfolio Management Playbook - O…
Application portfolio management (APM) is an ongoing governance process that ensures applications across the organization continue to …
The journey to effective Application Portfolio Man…
APM is a necessary precursor to effective digital transformation, but how do you achieve it? That’s what we want to consider here. Building an …
Application Portfolio - PMO Institute
Thinking Portfolio utilizes industry-independent definition models for busi- ness benefits and maturity. By putting Thinking Portfolio into …
Application Portfolio Management - IBM
The cornerstone of IBM's solution to unlocking that understanding is to drive an Application Portfolio Assessment [APA] that will deliver both a …
Application Portfolio Management for Digital Ac…
Best-in-class organizations continuously strive to innovate and improve IT assets. This transformation is critical for business organizations …
