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6 practices for effective portfolio management

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Portfolio management across the enterprise continues to evolve as a function that balances investments, priorities, and resources. Organizations need integrated and strategic portfolio management more than ever to decide what to start, stop, continue, consolidate, or change. Through conversations with industry leaders and corporate strategists, Gartner has identified six best practices for effective portfolio management.

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    Top Priorities for IT 2021: Program and Portfolio Management

    Leading in 2021 will look different from leadership in 2020, but understanding and planning for unknowns and continued disruption across the IT organization is critical to moving forward. Get emerging trends, expected challenges and next steps for Program and Portfolio Management leaders in 2021.

    Program & Portfolio Management Leaders must reinvent their approach for portfolio management

    To support digital business, CIOs are decreasing their investment in on-premises infrastructure and increasing their investment in off-premises capabilities and new technologies. This requires portfolio management leaders to partner with business leaders and resource managers to balance investments across a diverse set of internal and external services in a much faster and more complex environment.
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    The digital future has arrived. To support digital business operating models, project management is shifting toward more adaptive approaches focused on continuous delivery, dynamic change, value-driven outcomes and increased risk tolerance.

    Pivot and become more adaptive with the PPM leadership vision for 2021

    The increased reliance on digital business, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, has forced virtually every PMO, EPMO, and SRO to pivot and become more adaptive, enabling change using techniques like agile and technologies like platforms as a service. This eBook highlights the trends and challenges PPM leaders will have to reconcile in the coming year and provides specific actions that they can take in response.

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