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Portfolio Management Best Practice 2 – The Project Registry.

Strategy Driven

This unavoidable phenomenon increases the risk of project duplication and diversion of funds from relatively high value projects to less impactful ones. To avoid this risk requires informing management decisions with comparable, value-based data related to the entire body of organizational initiatives.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 50 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

About the Author Marshall Fisher, co-author of The New Science of Retailing , is the UPS Professor of Operations and Information Management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and co-director of the Fishman-Davidson Center for Service and Operations Management.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. It turned out that the unit was driving profits by raising prices and cutting marketing and advertising expenditures.

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Companies Collect Competitive Intelligence, but Don’t Use It

Harvard Business Review

This “island mentality” is surprisingly prevalent among talented, seasoned managers. The paradox is that companies spend millions acquiring competitive or market “intelligence” from armies of vendors and deploy the latest technology disseminating the information internally.