1st Edition

The Four Pillars of Portfolio Management Organizational Agility, Strategy, Risk, and Resources

By Olivier Lazar Copyright 2019
192 Pages
by Auerbach Publications

190 Pages
by Auerbach Publications

190 Pages
by Auerbach Publications

Portfolio management consists mainly of making decisions about which initiatives to undertake, which initiatives not to pursue, and which resources are to be allocated to which portfolio component. At least, that’s how it is most commonly presented in textbooks and courses. Indeed, it is all of that, but it is also so much more. Portfolio management is, of course, about making these... Read more

Dedication

Contents

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Context of Portfolio Management

Chapter 3 The First Pillar: Organizational Agility

Chapter 4 The Second Pillar: Your Organization’s Strategy

Chapter 5 The Third Pillar: Risk

Chapter 6 The Fourth Pillar: Resource Demand Planning

Chapter 7 Managing Your Portfolio

Chapter 8 Evolution and Future Developments in Portfolio Management

Chapter 9 Conclusion

Lexicon

References

Index

Biography

Olivier Lazar is an organizational architecture consultant, coach, and trainer, as well as a graduate with a master’s degree and an executive MBA in strategy, project, and program management from the Lille Graduate School of Management and a graduate from the PMI Leadership Institute Master Class in 2013. Committed to the advancement of the profession, he’s Managing Partner and COO at The Valense Palatine Group, acting Project Management Director at Altran Switzerland, a former president at the PMI Switzerland Chapter, and has hold various global volunteering leadership roles at PMI. With more than 20 years of Organizational Governance, Change, Project and Program Leadership experience, both on the operational and consulting perspective, Olivier has worked in a large scope of industries, from corporate finance to aerospace, and from E-business to pharmaceutical and energy where he has created organizationally agile environments fostering engagement, motivation and performance. Olivier accompanies organizations in their transition to higher levels of Maturity through in the rethinking of their structures and governance principles. Focusing on Value and Change Management, Olivier helps in delivering Organizational Transformation.