Portfolio Management - Managing Shared, Perishable Resources

March 7, 2008 @ StrategyDriven from Nathan Ives

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Portfolio managers direct deployment of assigned resources across the several programs, projects, and processes they oversee in a manner that maximizes the organization’s return on investment. (See Figure 1) Complicating the portfolio manager’s work is the myriad of differing resource types; resources that are often limited and shared by the portfolio’s many components.

All work requires resources for its performance. Resource types can be generally categorized as:

  • Personnel - skilled labor and knowledge resources
  • Equipment - tools, software applications, and facilities resources
  • Material - land, parts and components, commodity materials and supplies, data, and intellectual property resources
  • Financial - cash, credit, and other financial instrument resources

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