tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72322851452758972522011-11-27T18:44:59.532-05:00Views on Business, Process and Business Process ManagementTeamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03362139377912854873noreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7232285145275897252.post-69750946003155534142010-08-06T07:18:00.000-04:002010-08-06T07:18:09.228-04:00

The introduction can be found here. This is the second installment of our series on Product and Project (PnP) Portfolio Management. The intent of the series is to provide a simplified look of some essential concepts and their relationships to each other. The audience is for organizations considering Portfolio Management as a tool to support their business objectives and decision making therein.

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IntroductionAxiom:1 has provided consulting services for Portfolio Management to a number of clients. We have found that a many of them had the best intentions of creating a Portfolio Management discipline, or approach, in their business but lacked some essential understanding that would have avoided tremendous overspend, false starts or failed attempts. Our posit is that most, if not all,

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The most dreaded words for us are "BPM requires too much overhead". Why? Because the job just got harder by having to first get through a misaligned perception. The earmarks of BPM academia can be found in most books on the subject and, to complicate matters even further, there are a number of practitioners who believe the only way to treat each engagement are to take a formal "top down"

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There is a significant relationship between quality, metrics and Process Improvement endeavors. So much so that we've developed a white paper that shows, by example, where even minimal effort can realize appreciable rewards to ROI. The white paper PDF can be read by clicking here . We hope you can find some value in the concepts and ideas and, of course, we welcome any feedback and opinions.

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Axiom: If you purchase the technology first you will pay magnitudes more in the long run.You will end up spending more time which will delay the delivery of success, and money which in this economic environment that isn't exactly a recipe for advancement. Given that there are a few very practical steps that can be taken to achieve significant ROI while potentially transforming the company to meet

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Now that you've secured support from C-Level management you may feel lighter than a hot air balloon rising over a early morning sun on the Serengheti. Of course you do! That was the easy part and often mistaken as a sure fire ticket to success. Enter at your own risk as you are about to face the biggest challenge of them all... The Corporate Culture!!! It is the corporate culture that has been

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Previously I spoke of the essential and necessary commitment to a process improvement program, be it facilitated by outside consulting or as part of an internal group: Commitment to change!While what I am going to describe is not guaranteed to get the undying support needed, using certain techniques at the onset of the approach may strengthen the probability of commitment from the CEO or CIO as

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While clearly a play on words... it does support the logic of an axiom itself: The first axiom (Axiom:1) is that all things must start at the beginning! (TM) And the beginning, in the context of a Business Process improvement endeavor, is a commitment of the most Senior Manager (CEO, CIO, etc.) to support, invest and establish the activity as critical to the success of the organization. I refuse

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