Business portfolios management

Business Portfolio management, derivative pricing, transaction analysis... 

Clamen envisioned an ideal environment for innovation. It should have an open, sharing culture and customers who are active in setting product targets. Innovation should be considered vital to the business strategy, and structured processes should be used for both innovation and portfolio management. 

David J. Soderberg, BP Chemicals You mentioned a very coherent and concise set of tools that are used portfolio management, fuzzy front end, and stage gate. Those work very well within a business unit context. They re very focused and allow you to allocate resources. 

Allen Clamen That s still a big challenge for us. As I mentioned, the portfolio management was all within the business context. There is a roll-up intended, which hasn t happened yet, among all businesses so that we can start to look across businesses. What does the whole profile look like What does the company portfolio look like ... 

Cap Gemini Ernst Young Center for Business Innovation, Measures That Matter study. Survey of 300 sell-side analysts, 275 buy-side analysts, as well as interviews with portfolio managers. Summaries of these studies are available at http //www.cbi.cgey.com/. 

Admati A.R and Pfleiderer P. 1997. Does it All Add Up Benchmarks and the Compensation of Active Portfolio Managers. Journal of Business (70) 323-350... 

Applying portfolio management techniques to customer segmentation so knowledge can be used to increase share of business with selected customers... 

Unlike the R D portfolio, which forms part of business policy, questions of this type are usually discussed and decided upon not by the company top management but within the specialist divisions. 

Launch and market development Managing a portfolio of costly and risky R D pro ects Building a solid business case ... 

Failures cannot be avoided. The trick - as in the world of venture capital - is to manage the uncertainty and to build a portfolio of good prospects. And, as with venture capital, the starting point is a solid business case for the opportunities. It is important to ensure that the addressable market size and uptake are correctly estimated (by defining them narrowly enough) and that a sufficient budget is allowed for investments, in particular for market development and application development. 

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