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Article Decision Making, Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Strategy June 2013

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Beauty contest

By Knudson, Teresa Beauty is in the eye of the beholder doesn't apply only to romance and fashion. Even in portfolio management, the land of objective measures and data-driven decisions, there's room for subjectivity.…

Conference Paper Strategy, Decision Making, Portfolio Management 24 April 2013

Investments in a turbulent world

By Van Broeck, Jan Over the last several years, there has been a growing interest in project portfolio management, from both a strategic perspective (do the right projects) and an operational perspective (do the…

Article Strategy, Decision Making April 2013

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Restoring order

By Heerkens, Gary Today's organizational managers need to get their project identification and selection process in the correct order. This article discusses how to overhaul any organization's project selection…

Conference Paper Scheduling, Decision Making, Risk Management, Strategy, Cost Management 23 October 2012

Project risk analysis to support strategic and project management

By El-Mehalawi, Mohamed E. Successful project cost and schedule risk management is always capable of informing project management of "where the project is" and "where the project is going" in the future. Current project…

Conference Paper Decision Making, Strategy 23 October 2012

Project selection and termination--how executives get trapped

By Meyer, Werner G. Many organizations deal with the challenge of choosing among projects that compete for resources. These choices often involve considering the termination of non-performing projects in favor of new,…

Conference Paper Strategy, Decision Making 18 July 2012

Design for evolvability at project front-end strategizing

By Biesek, Guilherme | Gil, Nuno Capital projects involve designing and delivering new assets that are planned to operate for several decades, but over the project and operating lifetimes, design requirements are likely to change.…

Conference Paper Program Management, Strategy, Decision Making, Benefits Realization 9 May 2012

In the eyes of the beholder

By Deguire, Manon Understanding the correct definitions and key characteristics of projects is of significant importance for the discipline of project management to continue to develop at all levels of the…

Article Decision Making, Change Management, Complexity, Strategy, Information Technology, Government 1 March 2012

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Mass migration

By Fretty, Peter City officials in Inglewood, California, USA, realized their governmental systems, including the one that handled emergency responses, were dependent on a mainframe that was rapidly becoming…

Article Decision Making, Strategy November 2011

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Perfect alignment

By Swanson, Sandra A. Project professionals face a barrage of day-to-day decisions regarding project minutiae, and they sometimes lose sight of an organization's bigger picture--namely, its strategic goals. This article…

Conference Paper Decision Making, Strategy, Governance 22 October 2011

Identifying and selling enterprise-wide strategic project initiatives

By Blankenheim, Jim | Steele, Lynn Clemmons This paper presents an enterprise-wide approach for identifying strategic initiatives and provides project sponsors with the substantiation needed to promote their initiatives in competition with…