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Lean Portfolio Management

“Most strategy dialogues end up with executives talking at cross-purposes because nobody knows exactly what is meant by vision and strategy, and no two people ever quite agree on which topics belong where. We just don’t have a good business discipline for converging on issues this abstract.”

—Geoffrey Moore, Escape Velocity

The Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) competency aligns strategy and execution by applying Lean and systems thinking approaches to strategy and investment funding, Agile portfolio operations, and governance.

Why Lean Portfolio Management?

As Moore’s quote reminds us, the supposedly simple act of defining and communicating an aligned strategy for the enterprise is not so simple after all. And ...

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