TransparentChoice Blog
Insights, ideas, and inspiration for portfolio decision-makers.
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Stakeholder Alignment: The not-so-secret key to PMO success
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Strategy Execution and Sesame Street
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Crossing the Information Divide: How PMOs Can Communicate Strategic Value to Execs
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The best PMO in the world - an interview
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The Evolving Role of PMOs: Transforming into IMPACT Engines
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Agile Governance: Streamlining Projects for Maximum Value
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Pet Projects: Mythical Unicorns or Hungry Hippos?
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Value-Based Prioritization: A Better Way to Select Projects
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Goal-Oriented Management: How to Deliver Big Hairy Audacious Goals
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Organizational Accountability and Its Role in Strategy Execution
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Collaborative Strategy Building in a Digital World
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Resource Capacity Planning: Insights and Best Practices
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Strategic Goals – the Key to Strategic Execution
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Project Completion: The Value of Getting Projects Done, Not Just Started
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Discover the Secrets to Successful Business Transformation
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Portfolio Governance - Insights, Strategies & Tips
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6 PMO Tools to Keep Your Portfolios Aligned to Strategy
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10 PMO Best Practices to Maximize the Strategic Value of Portfolios
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Prioritization: Why people are so much more than resource
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Who moved my resource? Why prioritization needs change management
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Red Pill or Blue Pill: Fix Prioritization Now
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Urgent action for all PMOs: Weed your projects!
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Why AHP works for Prioritization
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Prioritization - The Efficient Frontier
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AHP: The foundation for a great portfolio in just 8 weeks
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What’s the point of doing projects?
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The Spreadsheet Paradox: Free to Use, But Costs Millions on Misaligned Projects
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Optimize Project Flow: Make projects go faster by slowing down!
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Einstein and the Strategic Advantage
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PMOs and the Saddest Excel Joke…
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Collaborative Decision Making - The Ultimate Guide
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Too Many Projects - The Ultimate Guide
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Noise in Decision-Making: Your decisions undermined daily!
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Prioritization Spreadsheet: 6 Reasons It's Destroying Value
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The Meg – Why Megaprojects Fail
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PMO Cluedo - Murder in the Boardroom?
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Strategy-Execution Gap: Is your CEO driving a Clown-car?
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How to Identify PMO Value Proposition?
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Another project failure? Time to align projects to strategy
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Project Prioritization Matrix: Avoid These 4 Common Mistakes
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PMOs Should Stop Prioritizing Demand!
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Unlocking Your PMO’s Potential: From Underperformer to Champion
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My Project Just Failed... or Did It?
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Benefits Realization is easier than you think
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Project Turnaround: Strategies to Rescue Failing Projects and Portfolios
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Project managers are a waste of space. So are PMOs
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Setting up a PMO: The Grand Design?
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Is your PMO guaranteed to fail?
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Agile Budgeting: Overcoming Budget Process Frustrations
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70% of Executives not engaged; a PMO wake-up call
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Only 50% of PMOs survive. Fight back!
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McKinsey Research: 40% More Value from a Portfolio?
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What has the PMO ever done for us?
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What is Picking Projects Worth to a PMO?
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Why is the budgeting process so difficult?
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4 Ways to Improve Executive Sponsorship
The Importance of Confidence to Project Outcomes