Project Portfolio Management: Don't Forget to Kill ...

Enjoyed Richard Jones' post about exploiting internal resource management to drive innovation rates, which requires killing low potential projects. One of the first steps is to improve visibility to resource utilization (knowing what resources are doing) and to improve visibility to active projects (increasing opportunity to see project kill candidates). This visibility combined with effective governance of the project portfolio (the killer mindset) could move the bar in performance. ...

... "Companies can be outstanding at generating new ideas - I mean really world-class and yet they struggle. The simple reason is they don't have the resources to exploit them. " ...

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