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The Business of Portfolio Management
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The Business of Portfolio Management

by Iain Fraser
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
158 pages
3h 38m
English
Project Management Institute
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SECTION 4

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one that is most responsive to change.

—Charles Darwin

Supporting Functions: Time for Change!

4-1.Leadership in Organizations

In the post-GFC environment, leaders are being challenged to provide new and faster solutions to those market pressures referred to at the beginning of Section 1. Value-driven portfolio management needs to be better recognized as an alternative approach to traditional functional ways of conducting business. Value-driven portfolio management allows for better alignment to strategic intents as well as a nimbler organizational structure able to act on a need for change much more quickly and effectively than traditional functional ...

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ISBN: 9781628253733