Guessing is not a strategy: How to build decision velocity with AI and real-time data
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You’ve already got project portfolio management — whether you know it or not. Too often, however, the prioritization of projects is based on turf wars and crises, real or imagined. Author and consultant Michael Greer discusses these potentially dangerous underground dynamics and how to build the case for a more structured approach, even in tough times.
Michael Greer, project management consultant, author of "The Project Manager's Partner: A Step-by-Step Guide to Project Management," blogger and podcaster at Inspired Projects, recently talked with PPM Executive about building a project portfolio management approach that works and how economic uncertainty makes strategic decision-making more critical than ever.
To Greer, companies are already doing project portfolio management — whether they realize it or not. Everyday, someone is making a decision that affects the entire portfolio.But exactly who is making those decisions … are they the right decisions … and how would you even know?
“When you talk about project portfolio management, there’s a kind of an emperor’s new clothes thing here,” Greer says. “In an organization that has a lot of projects going on, you have project portfolio management. It’s going on. The questions are, for that pile of projects out there, is it being …
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