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Topic: Product Portfolio Management

	Product management - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Product management is a function within a company dealing with the day-to-day management and welfare of a product or family of products at all stages of the product lifecycle.
		Product management may also represent an organization's approach to the process of managing and marketing its products and services as smaller businesses inside the larger enterprise, supported by multi-function product teams (led by product managers) and a standard product development process.
		Product management typically deals with all of the end-to-end aspects of a product or product line including product profitability, the role may be split with closely related functions Product marketing, program management, and project management.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Product_management (351 words)

	New product project portfolio management
		Where RandD portfolios include high risk projects, such as those aimed at providing breakthrough products, it is particularly important to adopt a strategy whereby the overall risk of the portfolio of projects is managed to acceptable levels.
		In a portfolio of multiple projects, the objective is to create new products at a rate and with a degree of reliability which reflects the business objective.
		For instance, in some industries a breakthrough product may not by itself be expected to give rise to stellar profit performance, yet it is necessary once in a while in order to establish a new product line for a subsequent series of new medium risk products which will provide the core of company profits.
	www.sensors-research.com /risk_ppr.htm (11785 words)

	Visions - PRODUCT PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT: Role of Alliances
		The use of Referrals is best employed with add on products that complement your Company's product offering, where there is little leverage from linking the two companies or their products more closely together and where the time or cost of creating a more formal alliance is not warranted.
		Product Alliances provide a greater breadth of product choice without having to develop and acquire the manufacturing competencies needed to produce the product.
		Product Alliances are best employed where a common brand is important, some customers prefer purchase from one source and greater pricing autonomy is needed.
	www.pdma.org /visions/oct00/role_of_alliances.html (2731 words)

	Portfolio Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		To draw up the portfolio strategies their customers require, portfolio managers need access to comprehensive coverage of the global equity, bond, money, funds and commodities markets, and to the news which affects them.
		Portfolio managers seek portfolio management systems that automate administrative and management functions so they can spend more time developing their customer relationships.
		Portfolio managers need to be able to trade quickly to respond to market conditions.
	www.portfolio-management-guide-resource.info (386 words)

	Pacific Edge Mariner : Portfolio Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Portfolio Management component of Pacific Edge Mariner draws lifecycle, resource, financial and project data into an integrated decision support framework where tradeoffs are examined, impacts are analyzed and performance is tracked and optimized.
		Manage by exception — More than a planning system, Mariner summarizes key metrics from the integrated project, resource and financial management capabilities to deliver advanced warning and drill-down access for immediate course correction.
		Portfolio Management is not just about selecting the investments that offer the highest return.
	www.pacificedge.com /product/portfolio_mgmt.asp (695 words)

	Product Portfolio Management
		Product portfolio management forms the basis for decisions about allocating resources and marketing spend across existing products, as well as prioritizing and phasing the investment in product development and new product introduction.
		Consequently, Product Portfolio Management decisions are frequently made on financial or operating assumptions that lack transparent and understandable strategic analysis.
		Effective product lifecycle management requires the collaboration of many individuals and teams who are often decentralized and have their own agendas.
	www.gensight.com /group/Solutions/Strategy_ProductLifecycle.htm (836 words)

	Pragmatic Portfolio Management for Product Development - Conference Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Portfolio management has been around for years but the subject has been especially hot recently as companies find themselves squeezed by competitive and economic pressures to make the absolute optimum use of scarce development resources.
		To optimize resource management PLUS revenues and profits, you need to take a HOLISTIC approach to portfolio management, one that starts in the new product planning stage and continues through the life cycles of your entire product line.
		You will also hear from product and portfolio management subject matter experts from top companies which have taken a new view of what it takes to be the best in managing their total portfolios from beginning to end of product life cycles.
	www.iirusa.com /portfoliomanagement/index.cfm/Link&1/NewSection&Yes (383 words)

	Product Portfolio Management - Clarity for IT-Governance and New Product Development (formerly NIKU)
		Clarity provides the visibility and analysis businesses need to determine not only what is the most innovative and profitable product portfolio, but also the most realistic and achievable based on their most critical and limited resources.
		The deep product portfolio management capabilities in Clarity – including multiple what-if scenarios and efficient frontier analysis – provide multiple ways to identify the most innovative and promising product portfolio.
		Portfolios can also be rolled up from multiple business units to a centrally managed product portfolio, so the business can ensure that the overall product portfolio is aligned to corporate strategy.
	www.niku.com /npd.asp?id=225 (388 words)

	Ask the Expert: Ed Miller - Innovate Forum
		Product Portfolio Management solutions assist planners by helping assess market trends, capture the voice of the customer early, evaluate changes to the company’s existing portfolio, predict costs, determine launch estimates and project realistic ROIs.
		The advantage for niche suppliers of these solutions is that they have developed their businesses solely focused on the issues of Product Portfolio Management and know the hot buttons and speak the same language as the executives that comprise their target audience.
		Likewise, manufacturers who can look beyond the current fuzziness, filter out the hype, recognize the tremendous potential of Product Portfolio Management, and investigate ways of tying these solutions into their overall PLM initiatives stand to be big winners in the years to come with successful product strategies.
	www.innovateforum.com /innovate/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=322770&ref=25 (845 words)

	Product Portfolio Management \| Product Development \|Product Lifecycle Management \|
		But managing across all the products and services of a company is a truly daunting task.
		This may be why the discipline of product portfolio management is one of the least understood and least practiced business activity in many companies today.
		Product managers, group product managers, product management directors, product strategists, marketing strategists, and others who need to understand the basics of product portfolio management.
	www.sequentlearning.com /course-detail.php?the_id=8 (219 words)

	Product Portfolio Management and Complexity Management
		Complexity Management and Product Portfolio Management techniques are strategic tools for corporations to maximize the margin generated from their operations.
		This is especially true in the case of legacy products derived from yesterday’s decisions.
		Proposal of agenda related to product discontinuance and product standardization, taking account of future business benefits, costs of implementation, business impact, likelihood of success, and responsibility for deployment.
	www.orbsenconsulting.com /orbsdp5.htm (193 words)

	Product & Portfolio Management - Development - Lifecycle - Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
		An important aspect of Product Innovation and Lifecycle Management (PILM) is determining that scarce capital, time and development resources are focused on doing the right things.
		Assigns strategies and allocates investments to individual products with the goal of optimizing the entire product portfolio.
		Product technology roadmaps can build "big-picture" awareness and promote collaboration among all product development stakeholders.
	www.deloitte.com /dtt/section_node/0,1042,sid=32118,00.html (359 words)

	Product Portfolio Management
		of revenue and therefore excellence in Product Portfolio Management is directly related to the value...
		With effective and efficient Product Portfolio Management in place, you will be...
		Agile Product Portfolio Management enables organizations to optimize their product development...
	www.offersonly.com /product_portfolio_management.html (149 words)

	Product Portfolio Mgnt Overview
		The third product management priority is assembling a strategically strong and financially viable portfolio of complementary products.
		Priorities #1 (developing new products) and #2 (managing through the PLC) are centered on the dynamics and principles for managing individual products.
		During the early stages of the new product development process, product ideas are generated for high potential target markets and then screened based on three criteria: strategic attractiveness, financial attractiveness, and ability to execute.
	www.msb.edu /faculty/homak/HomaHelpSite/WebHelp/Product_Portfolio_Mgnt_Overview.htm (201 words)

	Portfolio Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		There are varying definitions of Portfolio Planning and Portfolio Management depending on whether we are talking about products or product ranges, markets, New Product Development (NPD) Projects, IT projects or technologies.
		In general it relates to planning and managing 'bunches' of things such as products or projects.
		The pdq approach utilises an advanced set of tools to achieve a market, customer and competititor, product, portfolio and technology oriented approach for strategy generation and management.
	www.pdqttm.co.uk /apm04_product_portfolio_management.shtml (610 words)

	Consider Agile's New Product Portfolio Management Capabilities
		Since product portfolio management is a new class of software and a new market, Agile faces low barriers to entry.
		This event offers further evidence that product portfolio management is gaining attention and momentum in the market.
		"Product Life Cycle Management Predictions for 2003" — Vendors that serve the PLM market with applications for product portfolio management and PLM for process industries will see the highest percentage revenue growth during 2003.
	www.gartnerweb.com /DisplayDocument?doc_cd=114140 (549 words)

	Greene, Tweed Deploys Sopheon's Process and Product Portfolio Management Solution
		Greene, Tweed's products are also used in the medical, biotechnology, petroleum, fluid handling and semiconductor industries.
		"Product life cycle management is a dynamic process," said Andy Michuda, chief executive officer of Sopheon.
		Trying to support product life cycle management with a static software solution is an open invitation to process failure.
	www.sopheon.com /press_release.asp?rel=88 (549 words)

	Product Portfolio Management - The Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Cooper outlines the portfolio management methods that leading firms use to maximize the value of their portfolio of RandD projects, to balance their portfolio, and to seek strategic alignment.
		Robert Cooper is a leading expert in new product management, the developer of the Stage-Gate new product process, and noted author, lecturer and consultant in the field.
		With it, more products move quickly through an ‘unclogged’ development pipeline, cycle times are predictable, and product development projects contribute to the desired strategic portfolio mix, meeting overall business objectives for growth.
	www.trainingforum.com /MRT/PPM-Program.html (2202 words)

	Decision Making Product Management Portfolio Management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Strong Product or IT Portfolio Management assures a good balance of products or projects and optimal resource allocation to align development decisions with your overall business strategy.
		The goals with successful Portfolio Management include maximizing the value of the portfolio, ensuring a good balance between different types of products/projects, running the right number of projects, allocating and reallocating resources, and aligning development decisions with the overall strategy.
		Integrate portfolio management with market analysis, gap analysis, competitor analysis, requirements management and release planning.
	www.telelogic.com /corp/solutions/product-and-portfolio-management.cfm (307 words)

	Agile PLM Solutions \| Agile PLM 9
		Agile 9 supports the product lifecycle business process, technology platform, and integration requirements of companies in the aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer packaged goods, electronics, industrial products, and life sciences industries.
		Agile Product Governance and Compliance™ enables organizations to manage product and program compliance against standards and regulatory requirements, ensuring effective compliance throughout enterprise operations.
		Agile Product Cost Management enables companies to manage product costs across the product lifecycle and design their global supply network concurrently with the design of their products.
	www.agile.com /solutions/agile9/index.asp (1168 words)

	Expert: Stage-Gate® Product Development Process, Benchmarking Product Development, Portfolio Management Expert
		He is president of the Danish Association for Product Innovation Management (DAPIM) and is a board member and former president of ISPIM.
		He is also the partner of world-renowned new product management expert Dr. Robert G. Cooper, with whom he has collaborated for about 15 years.
		Expert has given training on project management for new products, product development strategy and portfolio management, and creativity in product development.
	www.intota.com /viewbio.asp?bioID=765505&perID=721995&strQuery=launch (547 words)

	Visions, PDMA's product development e-magazine
		Recognizing that PM is not managed well in many companies, Cooper's study focuses on how the most successful firms manage their portfolios.
		This approach keeps the portfolio balanced between areas, since a project that is opening a new LOB does not have to compete with projects in established LOBs.
		They also have much more developed methods for managing their portfolios and are more satisfied with the PM process.
	www.pdma.org /visions/jan98/cooper2.html (776 words)

	Portfolio management, portfolio risk management, product portfolio management (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Portfolio management data can drive budget decisions By Mary Mosquera, GCN Staff portfolio management...
		Managing your portfolio is crucial whether your environment is a small portfolio management.
		PPD products and services include global CRO services and global clinical trialmanagement for pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies, portfolio management.
	www.partpurchaser.com /portfolio+management.html (291 words)

	Portfolio Management Business Articles From AllBusiness.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Managing integrated marketing communication (IMC) through strategic decoupling: how luxury wine firms retain brand leadership while appearing to be wedded to the past.
		The first rule of effective denials management is to thoroughly understand your denials portfolio.
	www.allbusiness.com /periodicals/topic/2272108-1-2.html (1667 words)

	Agile PLM Solutions \| Product Portfolio Management \| Overview
		Agile Product Portfolio Management enables organizations to optimize their product development investments, providing tightly synchronized program and product information, maximized resource utilization, and cross-program, multi-enterprise visibility and decision support across the product lifecycle.
		Our first product launch exceeded its quality targets and was launched earlier than expected.
		Agile Product Portfolio Management provides us with a single environment in which to manage all key project data including timelines, deliverables, issues, and product change information.
	www.agile.com /solutions/ppm/index.asp (523 words)

	New Product Development, Program Management, IT Project Management, Portfolio Management
		Artemis NPD provides the most comprehensive solution for maintaining the complete portfolio under strategic and financial control throughout the entire product lifecycle.
		Developing and maintaining a balanced product portfolio that is aligned to the company strategy is key to the survival of product-based companies.
		Products are the source of revenue and therefore excellence in Product Portfolio Management is directly related to the value creation potential of the company.
	www.artemispm.com /Solution/NPD_process_ppm (284 words)

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