Several leading US companies are forming a new council to promote improved project and portfolio management across industries. Founding members of the Portfolio Management Advisory Council include AAA, Boeing, Safeway, Visa and Washington Mutual...
Atlantic Global's Blaine says: "Programme and portfolio management is all about introducing and enforcing business discipline into project management. If the project has gone off course, then the project manager needs to be able of making hard...
David Suthers, CIO for Masterlease, said: "Along with increased rigour on all investment decisions (i.e.can we defer non-essential hardware spend) the existing investment portfolio is, quite rightly, being refocused around strategic growth and...
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She added there may well be a profound change in the company's priorities with Steve Ballmer in charge, including the kinds of employees it promotes and hires. After 30 years as figurehead and leader of Microsoft, the company will have to look...
Maximise staff Labour is the largest controllable expense for most retailers, yet many fail to fully understand how long tasks allocated to their staff can actually take. Retailers should be looking to balance their supply portfolio to achieve the...