Following a recent portfolio health check, you noticed that your portfolio is not aligned with the strategic plan and actions should be taken to stop losing money. What should be your next course of action?
Which tool or technique should the portfolio manager use to identify areas in which the portfolio may be underperforming in financially intangible ways?
As you work to determine which of four possible components to optimize the portfolio, assume you are using the internal rate of return as the key crite rion to make your recommendation. Only one new component can be added based on financial constraints. Each of the four potential components has benefits that support the strategic plan. Based on the following data, you recommend:
As the Director of Human Resources, you were pleased to be asked to join the Portfolio Steering Committee in your organization as you feel you can contribute given the scarce subject matter experts as your company begins to enter a new market in children's toys rather than its main focus on video games and apps. Children's toys will represent a new portfolio in the company.
However, while you will concentrate primarily on the resource allocation issue as you work to determine the types of projects and programs to pursue, it is important as well to recognize that:
Your company is currently on the verge of bankruptcy due to the lack of transparency within the organization; this alerted the CEO to take decisive actions and request that new reporting lines be established in order to be fully transparent. Following this, the portfolio structure has changed to cope with the new reporting lines.
Where is this change reflected when it comes to portfolio documents?
