Author(s)

Cameron Fisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Managing multiple candidate initiatives and in-flight projects across business units is a big challenge for organizations. Tracking progress of projects while balancing demand against available resources to ensure successful completion is difficult. Increasingly, organizations deploy a Project Portfolio Management (PPM) system. These new PPM solutions simplify portfolio governance and strive to guide enterprise innovation. For maximum benefits, the frameworks that shepherd initiatives and bolster project efficiency must not obstruct ideation, bottom-up creativity and entrepreneurship.

Project Management, Portfolio Optimization, Innovation

Fisher, C. (2014) New Techniques in Project Management. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, 4, 739-750. doi: 10.4236/ajibm.2014.412080.