Planification stratégique

Opérationnaliser les plans stratégiques - de la formulation à l'exécution dans toute l'organisation.

Upcoming Portfolio Management Conference: CHI November 2012 – Enrich Consulting

Every November the Cambridge Healthtech Institute hosts a portfolio management conference for the life sciences industry that spans both operational and strategic portfolio management. We find it to be the best portfolio management conference in the U.S., and to steal a page from movie critics, “If you only go to one portfolio conference this year…”...

Portfolio Management, By the Numbers – Enrich Consulting

I was speaking with a client at a large government-supported research lab the other day, and he reminded me of the success we enjoyed deploying the Enrich Portfolio System to support their annual portfolio process. When this group approached Enrich, they asked for help picking the winners within their portfolio, and justifying budget increases to...

Takeaways from IRI: Driving Innovation – Enrich Consulting

We sponsored the 2012 Industrial Research Institute (IRI) Annual Meeting this month, and the primary topic was how to drive innovation in large organizations. These organizations have become large because they’re very good at some “thing”, which for the sake of simplicity we’ll call a core competency. This core competency is typically focused on a particular type...

Pourquoi les organisations ne comprennent pas le TCO de leurs applications

La gestion du portefeuille d'applications (APM) est un processus utilisé pour tenter de saisir les performances et les dépenses des applications au fil du temps. Récemment, Gartner a publié un rapport affirmant que "Moins de 10% des organisations mondiales 2000 comprennent les coûts complets de leurs applications." ¹ Pourquoi tant d'organisations n'y parviennent-elles pas ? Je crois que ces organisations sont...

Efficient Frontiers and Productivity Rankings in Project Prioritization – Enrich Consulting

Will the real efficient frontier please stand up? Each year, we attend many conferences focused on the themes of new product development, innovation, and portfolio management. One of my biggest pet peeves at these conferences arises when speakers discussing project prioritization present a scatter chart with individual projects cumulatively plotted in descending order of bang-for-the-buck...

Avoid the Haircut: Sustaining R&D in Difficult Times – Enrich Consulting

They are dark times indeed when each day brings another tale of an industry stalwart shedding 1,000, 2,000, or even 10,000 jobs. It is especially daunting when companies are forced to make those cuts within research and development, the lifeblood of innovation and long-term survival. To our minds here at Enrich, there is an even...

Combien vos applications vous coûtent-elles réellement ?

De nombreuses organisations consacrent beaucoup de temps à la gestion des portefeuilles de produits et de projets. Après tout, c'est ce qui alimente l'innovation et les changements stratégiques de l'entreprise. Habituellement, 30 à 40 pour cent du budget informatique lui est consacré. Mais comment gérons-nous les 60 pour cent restants ? Un domaine qui consomme une grande partie...

Strategic R&D Portfolio Management vs. Operational Capacity Planning: A Tale of Two Disciplines – Enrich Consulting

Many of my recent discussions with portfolio staff have centered around the distinctions between project management and strategic R&D portfolio management applications. Often I hear a variant of the statement “We already have/are installing a capacity planning software. It does portfolio management…why would we need a dedicated strategic portfolio system?” In reality, there are critical...

Navigating the Dashboard Minefield to Improve R&D Portfolio Management – Enrich Consulting

The use of dashboards has been spreading throughout organizations. From tracking manufacturing performance to the latest sales numbers, dashboards aim to provide a quick, comprehensive snapshot of how well an organization, business unit, or project is performing. As R&D Portfolio Management processes mature within organizations, they evolve from once-a-year budgeting activities to evergreen processes that...

Using Strategic Capacity Planning to Manage R&D Portfolio Resource Bottlenecks – Enrich Consulting

Rocks in the river When selecting projects for the portfolio, practitioners of Strategic Capacity Planning often exclusively consider financial constraints. Though the terminology varies across industries–outside costs, out-of-pocket expenditures, external expenditure–the concept is the same: money spent on something other than staff. If internal resources are considered at all, it is usually at a very...