Portfolio Prioritisation and Optimisation

EPM Partners delivers best-practice portfolio selection techniques that provide integration between value optimisation.  That is, alignment with strategy and resource utilisation, to help organisations adopt a more rational rather than emotional approach to investment selection.  The new portfolio management and analytical capabilities help executives do more with less and objectively demonstrate the investment alignment with strategic priorities.

EPM Partners will help you achieve the following:

Effectively prioritise and communicate business strategy

EPM Partners helps executives break down their strategy into actionable, measurable, and discrete business drivers. The intuitive pair-wise assessment helps to ensure that organisations objectively prioritise business drivers, drive executive consensus, and derive a relative score that is used to measure the strategic contribution of competing requests.  Consolidating and prioritising business drivers within Project Server helps to communicate the strategy in actionable terms, and provide a blueprint that can be understood and implemented by departmental managers.

Run what-if analyses under varying constraints

EPM Partners helps organisations prioritise and assess projects from multiple dimensions - strategic value, financial value and risk - to provide objective comparisons.  Through an intuitive Cost Constraint Analysis view, EPM Partners helps analysts quickly model varying budget constraints and use Project Server's sophisticated optimisation algorithm to recommend the project portfolio that best aligns with the business strategy.  EPM Partners also introduces views like Efficient Frontier, Strategic Alignment, and Compare Scenario to provide powerful insights that help executives identify trade-offs, and evaluate and refine portfolio selection.

Proactively reschedule projects to maximise resource utilisation

Utilising the new capacity planning capability in Project Server 2010, EPM Partners helps analysts proactively assess the impact of the proposed portfolio on the resource pool, and models scenarios to enhance utilisation across the planning horizon.  Using the powerful Resource Constraint Analysis view, EPM Partners provides a holistic portal to help organisations visualise resource shortfalls and under-utilisation, adjust project start dates to better utilise available employees, and model headcount decisions to identify optimal hiring strategies.