Taming Change with Portfolio Management: Unify Your Organization, Sharpen Your Strategy & Create Measurable Value - Hardcover

A guide that shows how any organisation can harness the power of change by applying the cutting-edge discipline of portfolio management. Features: Enormous potential audience. The authors provide software and software services to over 500,000 individuals world-wide. In addition, the authors will use the book for presentations to senior members of the Project Management Institute, an organisation with over 500,000 members in more than 170 countries; A user-friendly introduction to a tremendously powerful management system. With clever graphics and case studies drawn from the authors' fifty years of combined experience, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking an effective and adaptable approach to managing organisations in a world of constant change; The first book to show companies how to unify the portfolio management process. While hundreds of books have been written about various portions of this system, this is the first book to synthesise all the information into one definitive treatment and expand the scope of project portfolio management to company--wide applications.

Taming Change with Portfolio Management is a powerful presentation of the cutting-edge discipline of portfolio management applied to organization-wide change events. The most effective leaders approach change as a powerful force to be anticipated and leveraged. They tame change by managing it in a comprehensive and systematic way. Portfolio management offers proven tools and techniques to unify how an organization harnesses the power of change to create measurable value.

Taming Change begins with an introduction to the relentless change that impacts our personal and professional lives. It then provides practical steps to effectively use your organization’s capacities to meet the dynamic demands that it faces. Finally, it provides the tools and advice you need to confidently implement portfolio management in your organization.

With more than 50 years of combined industry experience, Pat Durbin and Terry Doerscher have collaborated on this 352 page book of management expertise and practical guidance, brought to life with more than 60 illustrations. While hundreds of books have been written about various portions of the portfolio ecosystem, this is the first book to address organization-wide change management. Get your copy of this take-action guide to harnessing the power of change with the cutting-edge discipline of portfolio management.