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Le lien entre la stratégie d'une entreprise et le processus de planification à long terme, qui aboutit à son budget annuel, a toujours été, pour le dire gentiment, très lâche. Pour ceux d'entre nous qui sont proches du processus de planification, c'est un problème bien connu depuis longtemps. Pourtant, nous continuons à être surpris lorsque nous...
Coffee Talk: It’s Your Link to the Latest Innovation and Product Portfolio Management News and Trends! We are excited to introduce this new video blog series, Coffee Talk, featuring the Product Portfolio Mavens. Likened to The View for Product Portfolio Management (PPM), the Mavens offer wise insights along with a fun perspective on critical topics for...
As we have said before, every forecast you’ll ever build is wrong. The truth may be out there, but due to a lack of perfect information about the future, you won’t be able to reveal it before your project review meeting. There is a paradox here: The more you insist on the truth, the more...
With cloud-based project portfolio management software, project management offices can gain visibility into both strategic initiatives and sustaining operations, resulting in clear visibility into operations, effective prioritization, and better decision-making across the entire portfolio. A Project Management Office (PMO) doesn’t always achieve its full potential. Project managers often find themselves short on resources, time and...
What is an R&D-driven company with $10-50 billion of cash in the bank to do? In the last twelve months, Merck, Pfizer, HP, AstraZeneca, and Bristol-Myers Squibb have announced stock buybacks totaling over $25 billion, and layoffs of over 30,000 employees. So apparently, for many firms, the best use of their cash hoard is a...
Une planification des ressources des services qui change la donne Dans mon blog précédent, Blindsided : Pourquoi les organisations axées sur le service ne sont pas préparées aux fluctuations de la demande, j'ai abordé certaines des difficultés auxquelles les organisations de services basées sur des projets sont actuellement confrontées. Pour résumer, pratiquement toutes les organisations sont confrontées aux défis suivants : Des prévisions peu fiables, ce qui signifie que la demande entrante est toujours une surprise Une mauvaise visibilité de l'utilisation des ressources ; pour trouver le...
Finance and R&D can get along You’ve just finished briefing the executive committee on the methods for project valuation that you have worked so hard to establish in your R&D group. The team has finally acknowledged that risk needs to be managed in all its potential forms. You’ve reached consensus on the following set of...
Innovation is inherently risky. By definition, you’re doing something that you haven’t done before so there are no guarantees it will work. The mindset in many organizations is to “minimize” risk as if it were a disease, but it isn’t that simple. The best companies face risk head-on and manage it both systematically and transparently....
Part one of this series notes that 1) there are appropriate uses for spreadsheets in the planning process, 2) there is a key point at which spreadsheets fall short (alignment), and 3) an appropriate planning tool is one that makes the most of the strengths of spreadsheets in the data gathering process. In this blog,...
Personne ne contestera que l'économie crée de nombreux défis commerciaux pour les entreprises basées sur des projets. Des marges plus étroites, un ralentissement de la croissance des revenus, une diminution du nombre de projets, des taux de facturation plus bas, des attentes changeantes des clients et des employés, et de nouvelles tendances technologiques, notamment la consumérisation de l'informatique, sont les sujets quotidiens de nombreux cadres. Dans ces eaux agitées, comment le dirigeant qui réussit...
