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If we cannot avoid living in a world that drenches us with information – still, we can and must select for our processing the information that is likely to be useful to us and ignore the rest.-...

Organizations are like living organisms. Bill Gates makes this point in his book Business @ the Speed of Thought. Organisms and organizations both have a central nervous system. One is somatic, the...

Constraints have increased and so has demand for sustainable value. In good times there was a wide margin of error. Sometimes even seat-of-the-pants decision-making works, but so does winning at the...

The best-in-class project-selection process reduces complexity and accelerates good decision making. Complexity is a problem all of us have to deal with. And it’s a problem that’s not going away...

"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim." - George Santayana. In the absence of a holistic view of your entire portfolio of projects and lack of defined...

Imperial China was reputed to have invented a horrible torture as a means of example and execution: death by a thousand cuts. The victim died a slow and painful death. Each cut in and of itself...

The Atlantic puffin is an agile creature, diving from the air or the water’s surface down into the depths of the sea to feed. Underwater, it is highly manoeuvrable and has a remarkable capacity to...

The event that changed my career happened on December 14, 1996, at precisely 6.30 a.m. I was commuting. The radio was on. I wasn’t paying attention until these words hit me like a sock to the jaw:...

As we catch glimpses of a post pandemic world, we see the world is changing rapidly and radically, in ways no one could have imagined. In response, business leaders talk almost nonstop about how...

What are the seven key elements required for successful strategy realization? Element 7: Business Intelligence There are seven core elements, all of which are essential to achieve portfolio success...

What are the seven key elements required for successful strategy realization? Element 6: Resource Management. There are seven core elements, all of which are essential to achieve portfolio success –...

What are the seven key elements required for successful strategy realization? Element 5: Project Delivery There are seven core elements, all of which are essential to achieve portfolio success – and...

What are the seven key elements required for successful strategy realization? Element 4: The Investment Model There are seven core elements, all of which are essential to achieve portfolio success –...

What are the seven key elements required for successful strategy realization? Element 3: The Strategy There are seven core elements, all of which are essential to achieve portfolio success – and we...

What are the seven key elements required for successful strategy realization? Element 2 - The Innovation Process. In this series of blog posts, we will be examining the seven elements required to...

Element 1: Portfolio Management. In this series of blog posts, we will be examining the seven elements required to not only build a successful strategy, but to ensure that that strategy is...

The complexity of project and portfolio selection is a restless beast. But we can tame the monster by implementing the proven process of The New Discipline of Project Portfolio Management.  A...

Despite the wealth of information available to us these days, many of today’s best and brightest business leaders still make poor decisions. This is unfortunate, because sound decision making is at...

"Life can only be understood backward; but it must be lived forward." -Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher History captured Europe was plunged into the dark ages after the fall of Ancient Rome....

Many companies who have implemented the new discipline project and portfolio capability have discovered their “Acres of Diamonds.” When implemented well, the return on a proven PPM capability can...

At its core, Product Portfolio Management is about enabling better decision making. In our next series of blog posts, Michael Menard, co-founder and president of GenSight, shares his insights into...

In our question and answer session with Stephen Bridge, we discuss the role of the Gatekeeper, how to make gate decisions and how scorecards can facilitate this process. Transcript: Good morning. My...

New Product Development begs a lot of money questions. Such as, how much will the total project cost?  What is the estimated timing and profitability? How many years will it take to get your...

Getting new projects to market is complex and problematic and requires good management and good tools. Enterprise Innovation Management allows you to repeatedly get the best ideas to market more...