Four Frameworks for Portfolio Management

Leading During a Time of Disruption and Change

Every business managing a portfolio of products must regularly evaluate the strategic positioning of each product as well as its ability to drive future revenues and profits.

This task is made more difficult in a time of massive disruption and constant change. This paper provides leaders responsible for managing a portfolio of products with four frameworks to critically evaluate a company’s product portfolio and develop an informed strategy.

What's inside

  • Case for Change — This paper illustrates organizations can respond to crises and change by reviewing and adapting their portfolios of products.
  • Expert Authors — This paper is written by experienced leaders across industries who have led large transformations in enterprises across industries.
  • Practical Guidance — This paper provides four frameworks that make it easy for readers to clearly understand and apply the lessons in their own organizations.
  • All Levels — Change Agents can come from anywhere on the org chart. This paper directly provides guidance on how to lead change no matter your role or title.
Publication Date
2020
Pages
26
Topics
Leadership
Formats
epub · pdf
License
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

About the authors

4 authors
Chris HillSpeaker, author, leader, evangelist, engineer, researcher, and disruptor in developer relations and experience
Ken KennedyCEO and Founder, Kennedy Tower LLC
Mik KerstenFounder, Lymyt

Dr. Mik Kersten is an independent technology strategist and researcher best known as the creator of the Flow Framework and author of the bestselling book Project to Product and the new book Output to Outcome. Mik founded Tasktop and led the company as CEO until its acquisition by Planview in 2022. Mik started his career as a Research Scientist at Xerox PARC as part of the team that created the first aspect-oriented programming language. He then completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia, where he pioneered the integration of software development and collaboration tools. That work became the foundation for Tasktop and helped shape the emerging field of Value Stream Management. Before shifting his focus to flow, outcomes, and organizational modularity, Mik wrote more than one million lines of open-source code that are still in use today. His work now focuses on helping leaders transition from output- driven management to outcome-driven operating models, enabling organizations to harness the power of AI in a human-centric way. For more information, please visit the book‘s website at https://outputtooutcome.org/ .

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John WillisAuthor, Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 35 years. John is currently working as a Distinguished Researcher at Kosli. He is researching DevOps, DevSecOps, IT risk, modern governance, and audit compliance. Previously he was an Evangelist at Docker Inc., VP of Solutions for Socketplane (sold to Docker) and Enstratius (sold to Dell), and VP of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.

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