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Strategic Portfolio Management
Connecting Strategy with Execution
Strategic Portfolio Management is the selection and management of the optimum set of strategically aligned project initiatives. Cora takes this one step further by executing the selected projects
Delivering Strategic Business Objectives
Cora helps organizations to deliver the maximum business value by making the right investment decisions and allocating the most profitable use of resources. There are four stages to Strategic Portfolio Management by Cora:
Inventory
Translate your business strategy into an actionable portfolio
Analyze
Based on the strategic criteria, analyze and select the best initiatives
Balance
Implement the best aligned projects by allocating budget and resources that provide maximum business impact
Execute
Manage the approved projects to completion with full visibility over deliverables, timescales, scheduling and progress
Portfolio Selection
Auto-select the preferred portfolio based on your criteria and compare alternatives, ensuring your portfolio delivers the maximum return.
Scenario Planning
Make Portfolio balancing easy, while ensuring strategic alignment, capacity planning and global efficiencies across the enterprise.
Top-Down Budgeting
Logically split budget across your portfolios. Easily track forecasting from execution against portfolio budgets to measure performance.
Portfolio Prioritization
Using a criteria, based on your requirements to score and weight projects, slice-and-dice data to come up with a repeatable, reliable and robust portfolio scoring mechanism.
Strategic Capacity Management
Gaining visibility over the entire resource pool and easily understand requirements for the year ahead while maximizing usage of global resource pools.
Benefits Realization
Plan and track benefits alongside your project delivery and gain visibility over benefits being delivered by projects and how they should be prioritized to support corporate goals.
Business Intelligence
Embedded “BI” provides powerful data and insights that enable fast, informed decisions accessible to everyone via shared dashboard and interactive reports.
Better Decision Making
Increase return on investment, eliminate “CEO-specials” or “good-hunch” and enable decisions on the portfolio to be made with clarity and without guesswork.
Find out more
Request a demo to find out how Strategic Portfolio Management by Cora PPM can help transform your organization
A Guide to Portfolio Planning
"Portfolio Planning Can Save Millions on Your Bottom Line"
Preview
There are two keys to Strategic Portfolio Management and effective portfolio planning. First, make sure you’ve the right portfolio selected. Second – and it’s only after you’ve selected the right portfolio – make sure you manage those projects right. If you don’t have that first ingredient in place, you’re fighting an uphill battle.
This Guide to Portfolio Planning will help readers to understand the benefits of Portfolio Planning and how to implement the process in their organisation.
About the Author
Philip Martin is CEO of Cora Systems. Drawing on 30 years’ experience in the portfolio and project management industry, he has built a global client base across Europe, the Middle East and USA. He previously held positions with major US multinationals, including 3Com, Tellabs, DSC and Pulse Engineering. Philip is an electronic systems engineering graduate of Ulster University.
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