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New Problems, New Solutions: Making Portfolio Management More Effective

Abstract

Most companies' development portfolios suffer from: too many projects for the limited resources available; ineffective project prioritization; Go/Kill decisions made in the absence of solid information; and too many minor projects in the portfolio. The end result is poor performance: low-impact projects; too long to get to market; and higher-than-acceptable failure rates. Solutions are proposed based on the experiences of firms in the study. …

Authors

Cooper RG; Edgett SJ; Kleinschmidt EJ

Journal

Research-Technology Management, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 18–33

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

March 2000

DOI

10.1080/08956308.2000.11671338

ISSN

0895-6308