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Projects have become the main vehicle for pursuing corporate change. Each day, dozens, even hundreds, of internal change projects are running at any large or medium-sized company or public organization. In a tight economy management teams are facing a problem. On one hand they have to be parsimonious in the short term, on the other hand they have to invest in the future. The key question is: which development projects or programs will take the organization in the right direction?

Thinking Portfolio® is the tool for making the right decisions. It is a practical tool for strategic management. The portfolio management model supports business-driven planning and decision-making based on a firm overall grasp.

• Thinking Portfolio has been developed by utilizing the latest Web technology.
• The browser interface work with the latest versions of Microsoft Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and with leading tablets.
• The technical solution facilitates the implementation of various portfolio management applications. The portfolio application presented here is a strategic level management tool for development projects.
• The starting points for the development of the concept have been project work and international frameworks for portfolio management such as PRINCE2, PMBOK and SAFe.
• An organization implementing Thinking Portfolio is well-equipped for fast decision-making, agile change management, enhanced business drivenness, and risk management.
• Thinking Portfolio’s straightforward visual presentation method and browser-based user interface speed up its adoption. The use of the system requires no special training or manuals.

Thinking Portfolio^® is a practical platform for risk management. Keep your risks in one portfolio to manage risk discovery, risk analysis and mitigating actions. Gain an up-to-date view of the current risk situation – all in one place.

The Thinking Portfolio Risk Portfolio is intended to be used by whole company personnel or dedicated experts of risk management.

Benefits

• Keep and manage an up-to-date view of the current risk situation
• Manage risk discovery, risk analysis and mitigating actions
• Make informed decisions with up-to-date risk information.
• Govern and manage audit-trail for officials and auditors
• Manage and control risk management procedures
• Report on risks and mitigating actions

Key Functionalities

• Risk Categorization and life-cycle management
• Impact analysis and reporting
• Rick Management and Governance
• Scheduled Mitigating Actions (Link to Project Portfolio – Projects can be mitigating actions)
• Mitigation management on portfolio level (Link to Compliance Portfolio – Auditing is always risk based and controls may act as mitigation methods etc.)
• Reminders, tasks and reporting cycles

Thinking Portfolio^® is a practical platform for M&A (Merger & Acquisition) market, and competitor insights and information. Keep your information in one portfolio to manage discovery, analysis and follow-up actions. Gain an up-to-date view of the current market situation – all in one place.

A platform for M&A Management may be needed when:

• Reporting on M&A targets or market information is necessary for the stakeholders.
• A change in business environment requires continuous market and competitor information analysis.
• Numerous &A targets or other dimensions of market information must be recorded and followed.
• Common procedures in information management are required to gain effectiveness, efficiency and quality.
• Making informed decisions and prioritisation require up-to-date information.
• Employees need to be empowered in information management or a decentralised process is needed for efficient information gathering and updates.
• The lifecycle of the M&A targets need to be managed.
• Improved information and document management is required for M&A management.

The Thinking Portfolio M&A Portfolio is intended to be used by whole company personnel or dedicated experts of area. There can be many types of users that may include:

• All organisation stakeholders who may be appointed and discover new opportunities and analysis – evaluation may be even crowd-sourced. The Thinking Portfolio platform does not limit the number of users nor has extra fees per user. External personnel may be involved as stakeholders in the platform.
• M&A Manager and M&A personnel who are responsible for reporting targets. Information management may be de-centralised, but the common tools and practices make the process more aligned and the results may be analysed on a portfolio level.
• The Management Users, who may be responsible for some area or M&A activities. Managers usually makes the decisions on how the M&A information is reported and will be managed.
• Administrative Users are the janitors of the platform at the user organisation. They may not have a role in managing M&A activities but may administrate the process. They can make changes on the platform as the organisation and the business environment evolve.

A platform for sustainability may be needed when:

Many organizations take a dominantly technical view on their IT systems and services. What they lack is a comprehensive picture of the systems from a strategic point of view. No technical information will tell them if they have the right systems and services in place. With Thinking Portfolio the management team, application owners and users, and the IT management are able to communicate about the business value of IT systems.

Thinking Portfolio is an online application for managing the totality of IT applications at the strategic level. It contains information that links ICT applications to business goals. It contains, among others, the following information:

• Basic info
• Position in service architecture
• Priority and criticality
• Business positioning
• Risk analysis
• Cash flow
• Conformity to requirements
• Need for change
• Dependencies with other applications
• User information
• Supplier information
• ICT management information
• Life cycle information
• Application/service diary

Our clients have reported the following benefits of using Thinking Portfolio:

• Business and IT management have a common ground for discussion
• Business management can communicate solution needs better than before
• ICT management has a clearer picture of the future of the service/application base
• The business performance of applications becomes evident
• IT information is accessible throughout the organization and its maintenance is straightforward

Thinking Portfolio® is a practical platform for NPD management. Keep your initiatives in one portfolio: manage priorities, resourcing, scheduling, and an up-to-date view of the current development situation – all in one place.

A platform for NPD is needed when:

• An ever-shorter product development cycle is demanded by the market and customers.
• Many stakeholders and networks need to be managed and coordinated.
  Many new products are in development simultaneously.
  The lifecycle of the products needs to be managed.
  Informed decisions and prioritization are needed to manage the NPD as a portfolio.
• Common procedures are needed to gain efficiency and simple lean ways are needed for follow-up.
• Improved information and document management is needed.

Portfolio Platform HUB means utilizing multiple parallel portfolios for management, communication and decision making in your most critical assets and development areas.

Thinking Portfolio platform is used by hundreds of customers, in dozens of various portfolio management positions. The portfolios support each other with interconnected data models. Dependencies on different aspects of management become visible. There are links noted that illustrate possibilities of dependency mapping between portfolios.

Manage risks, resources and quality of your business development efforts comprehensively. Examples of different portfolio management applications and variations of our platform are presented in this document. Please contact us for further details or a demo on detailed functionalities.