Successful Project Portfolio Manager – Page 2 – Thinking Portfolio

Thinking Portfolio as an IT project management tool at Pirkanmaa Hospital District

The Pirkanmaa Hospital District is a municipal federation of 23 municipalities. Its mission is to provide health care services that promote health and functional capacity and to promote scientific research and training to support this goal. The data and technology administration of the Pirkanmaa Hospital District provides data administration services for information systems, as well as telecommunications services, such as telephone, workstation and data transfer services. The administration also provides medical technology services, information services, ...

Esa Toivonen, Managing Partner, Senior Advisor, CGEIT, CISA, CRISC, LJK2022-06-29T18:01:00+03:0027.4.2015|

Top 8 Key Tasks of Strategy Office

On a conceptual level, strategy offices are becoming commonplace in companies that believe in achieving success through strategic planning and implementation. Strategic work, however, varies significantly depending on the objectives, sector and management culture of the company. Strategy is often interpreted in many ways, and its significance to interest groups depends on the viewpoint. The key is to carry out the right operations at exactly the right time. Successfulness of decision making, and eliciting the ...

Esa Toivonen, Managing Partner, Senior Advisor, CGEIT, CISA, CRISC, LJK2017-07-11T11:10:22+03:0023.4.2015|

How to Successfully Set Up a PMO in 2015

Businesses can benefit significantly by setting a project management office within their organization. While it has been proven again and again that a PMO can add value to the project manager as well as the overall productivity of the organization, a lot of businesses are yet to set up a PMO. The year 2015 will see more and more PMOs being set up by organizations. If you have decided to set up a PMO for ...

Esa Toivonen, Managing Partner, Senior Advisor, CGEIT, CISA, CRISC, LJK2017-07-11T11:15:55+03:006.4.2015|

Top-6 Critical Security Issues for a PMO

The project management office staff faces security theft issues from the time a project is accepted till the time it is delivered and as it passes through various stages of development. Projects in every industry be it software, manufacturing, research and even construction can suffer if security breaches are recognized and information is stolen by rivals. Depending upon the criticality of project, the team members have to be careful about varied security issues ranging from ...

Esa Toivonen, Managing Partner, Senior Advisor, CGEIT, CISA, CRISC, LJK2017-07-11T11:22:55+03:006.3.2015|

6 Project Portfolio Management Tips for Beginners

Project portfolio management or PPM can be a tricky proposition for beginners. While there are several set methods to go about setting it up, you should follow a few tips and tricks that can bring you better results. The following six tips can help you make the best of your company’s PPM and provide quick, profitable and tangible results. Methodologies in project portfolio management can easily get outdated as they are static in nature. Instead ...

Esa Toivonen, Managing Partner, Senior Advisor, CGEIT, CISA, CRISC, LJK2017-07-11T11:25:14+03:003.2.2015|

Six Common Ways to Be a Better Project Management Office

Managing projects is a second nature to many managers, in spite of not having a proper structure to do it. Every day is hectic with new initiatives, new software being built, tested and launched constantly. All these are projects ultimately depend upon their managers for success. The leaders who have a proper and structured project management office have an undeniable edge and advantage over the others. Listed below are the ways in which you can ...

Thinking Portfolio2017-07-11T11:45:07+03:006.1.2015|

5 Questions to Help You Maximize the Value of Project Portfolio Management

As a part of a growing organization, you may be faced with handling multiple business projects at a time. To handle them efficiently, you could choose software or rely on personal expertise. Regardless of how you decide to manage your project portfolio, there are certain aspects of management that you should consider. If you have too many projects and limited personnel, time or money, you can manage your project portfolio by asking five important questions. ...

Thinking Portfolio2017-07-11T11:50:19+03:0029.12.2014|

Five Ways to Communicate your Project Portfolio Inside your Organization

Project portfolio management (PPM) is an effective internal organization tool which articulates the nature and purpose of a project and also in determining the outcome. Here are some of the ways in which you can communicate a PPM inside your organization. Power Point Presentations This is a classic computer program that has been the pitch-factor behind millions of successful projects across the world. Its popularity is rooted in its user friendly interface and versatility across ...

Thinking Portfolio2021-09-10T10:47:57+03:0023.12.2014|

6 Key Points for Good Portfolio Management Leadership

Good portfolio management can help businesses achieve greater value making it a vital tool for success. It can help you make better decisions, execute strategy and manage change across the organization. It takes a few simple steps to adopt best practices in product portfolio management. Involve everyone PPM is an ongoing activity and not a one-off event. It is all encompassing. Good portfolio management will involve people across the organization. With the buy-in of the ...

Thinking Portfolio2017-07-11T11:51:20+03:0025.11.2014|

Making Your PMO Tasks Effective

Project Management Office is basically a body that has various responsibilities with respect to the centralization and coordination of projects under its realm of work. These responsibilities could be related to providing support facilities for management of project or undertaking direct supervision and responsibility of a project. How do PMOs help organizations? Many organizations globally are now allotting large sums of money to the execution of various programmes and projects. The successful management of change ...

Thinking Portfolio2017-07-11T11:55:58+03:0013.5.2014|