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James S. Pennypacker and Lowell D. Dye, editors

©1999, paperback, 421pp., Center for Business Practices

Project Portfolio Management captures the essence of 40 years of business modeling and management science applications and presents project portfolio management in a format that is both informative and practical. You’ll discover insights into how successful businesses manage their project portfolios—how they choose the projects they undertake, how they get the right balance and mix of projects, and how they allocate their resources across various projects.

This collection of articles from leaders in the field will show you the portfolio management tools, techniques, and methods that you can put into practice in order to achieve more effective portfolio management in your organization.

 
Contents
  • An Introduction to Project Portfolio Management
  • Overview
    • The Strategic Context of Projects
    • Portfolio Management in New Product Development II
    • Project Portfolio Management: A Song Without Words?
    • Project Portfolio Management: Ideas and Practices
    • Portfolio Management for Projects—A New Paradigm
    • Using Decision Quality Principles to Balance Your R&D Portfolio
    • Strategy as a Portfolio of Real Options
    • Building on the Stage/Gate: An Enterprise-wide Architecture for New Product Development
  • Selection and Prioritization
    • Portfolio Management in New Product Development I
    • An Integrated Framework for Project Portfolio Selection
    • Project Selection
    • Selecting Projects that Will Lead to Success
    • How to Rank Computer Projects
    • Information System Project-Selection Criteria Variations within Strategic Classes
  • Tools, Techniques, and Methods
    • Project Portfolio Selection Techniques: A Review and a Suggested Integrated Approach
    • A Practical R&D Project-Selection Scoring Tool
    • Action-oriented Portfolio Management
    • Practical R&D Project Prioritization
    • Benefit-Cost Ratio: Selection Tool or Trap?
    • A Capital Budgeting Model Based on the Project Portfolio Approach: Avoiding Cash Flows per Project
  • Best Practices and Applications
    • Best Practices for Managing R and D Portfolios
    • How SmithKline Beecham Makes Better Resource-Allocation Decisions
    • Integrating the Fuzzy Front End of New Project Development
    • Project Prioritization in Large Functional Organizations
    • Creating Project Plans to Focus Product Development
  • Appendix
    • Bibliography: Readings on Project Portfolio Management

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