Chapter 2

Phase I: Develop the Organizational Portfolio

The best plans of mice and men are only as good as the way they’re implemented.

H. James Harrington

The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.

Proverbs 27:7

Introduction

The object of the activities that make up this chapter is to develop the Organizational Portfolio by evaluating the set of proposed business cases (each proposed business case was already aligned with a value proposition) to determine which of them will be selected as a project or program to be approved (or not) and included in the portfolio, either to be launched for the first time or, if one has already been established, to continue in the next time period.

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