Every CEO in the world, if questioned, will always complain that there are a lot of ideas to implement, but, unfortunately, insufficient resources to accomplish them. This book provides a solution to this dilemma by supplying techniques to assess the value of projects, prioritize projects, and decide which projects to implement and which to postpone. In addition, it describes various methods of balancing project portfolios and different strategic alignment models. The book provides thirty real-life project portfolio management case studies from pharmaceutical, product development, financial, energy, telecommunications, not-for-profit and professional services industries.
Preface
Chapter 1 : Introduction to Project Portfolio Management
Chapter 2 : Three Pillars of PPM
Chapter 3 : Resource Estimation for Project Portfolios
Chapter 4 : Project Portfolio Management in the Pharmaceutical Industry
Chapter 5 : Project Portfolio Management in the Product Development Industry
Chapter 6 : Project Portfolio Management in the Financial Industry
Chapter 7 : Project Portfolio Management in the Energy and Logistics Industry
Chapter 8 : Project Portfolio Management in the Telecommunications Industry
Chapter 9 : Project Portfolio Management in the Not For Profit Industry
Chapter 10 : Project Portfolio Management in the Professional Services Industry
Chapter 11 : Statistical Summary
Chapter 12 : Implementing Project Portfolio Management - Lessons Learned from Implementations
Index