Tales From A Portfolio Manager

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Adam, from assembleyou, was kind enough to invite me onto their Power Skills Project podcast a couple of weeks ago. It would be very rare to find people who don't work in teams, across the departments...

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8. How To Enable Innovation

Imagine the scene. You're a technology director, and you're providing the monthly update to the executive board of your company. The usual finance, project updates, service updates and new initiatives...

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7. Trust Enables Strategic Partnerships

Imagine this scenario: It's 4 o'clock on a Friday, and you receive an urgent voicemail from one of your key account managers. They inform you that a customer can no longer receive order confirmations ...

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6. How do we know when we are successful?

The concept of "value" troubles quite a few of the people I have mentored. Questions such as "How do I know if I am delivering value" or "How do we measure value" seem to me to say there is only one m...

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5. Create a Portfolio of Work

*Where do you start when you have 200 requests, projects and ideas?* If you wanted to improve your planning process, where do you start? Our knee-jerk reaction to managing a long list of demands, is t...

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4. Empathy Helps Unlock Alternative Solutions

What happens when somebody has made up their mind? ** Quite often we get tunnel vision. We get fixated on the solution before we understand the problem to solve. Empathy is a great tactic to broaden o...

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3. Changing gears

If we were to plan better, what would it look like? ** Today, I'm introducing the Organisation Partner Maturity model (OPM), where we can have a "low maturity" approach in the way we do things and a "...

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Shared Outcomes

Caught between a rock and a hard place? ** So, on the one hand you have "Team A" who want something. On other you have "Team B" who might be able to deliver it. Whose side are you on? Here are some ve...

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Introduction and Podcast links

Hi, I'm Jon, and this is a series of short articles called "Tales from a Portfolio Manager". I help people in corporates plan technology across teams. You could have a portfolio - of clients, projects...

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A Surprise Request

A surprise request knocks your plans off balance? ** We've all had new requests drop on your plate that should have been ideally notified to you a few months ago How do you handle them? Here are some ...

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Strategicdigitalbusinesspartner.com is a service provided by Baxter Thompson Associates. You could be someone who has a portfolio - of clients, projects, services or a backlog of features and you have to manage them across a wide variety of teams to achieve any number of goals, and we are specialists in helping your team plan and deliver your future technology vision.

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