Every manager has a good idea of what portfolio management means in an investment context. It's about stepping back and looking at the entirety of your investments to ensure that they make sense when viewed as a group. In doing this, we consider the characteristics of investments along a variety of dimensions. For example, we consider how risky they are; we don't want a portfolio that includes only risky or safe investments, instead, we want a good mix.
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IT Portfolio Management: A Framework In Progress
Posted October 1, 2002 | Leadership | Cutter Benchmark Review
About The Author
Robert D. Austin is a Cutter Consortium Fellow and a member of Arthur D. Little's AMP open consulting network. He is a regular speaker at the annual Cutter Summit and often delivers Cutter Bootcamps. Dr. Austin served as a professor on the faculty at Harvard Business School for more than a decade, and then as Professor of Management of Innovation & Digital Transformation at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark. He is currently Professor… Read More
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