文档介绍：Connecting the Dots: Aligning Projects with Objectives
in Unpredictable Times
by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren ISBN:1578518776
McFarlan
Harvard Business School Publishing © 2003 (246 pages)
This guidebook helps you fuse anization's intentions
and its project activities, capturing hidden value today while
better preparing for tomorrow.
Table of Contents
Connecting the Dots—Aligning Projects with Objectives in Unpredictable Times
Preface
Chapter 1 - The Big Picture
Chapter 2 - Frontier Living
Chapter 3 - A Primer on Traits
Chapter 4 - The Alignment Workshop
Chapter 5 - Through the Looking Glass
Chapter 6 - Taming the Future
Chapter 7 - The Elephant in the Hallway
Notes
Lexicon
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Sidebars
Back Cover
Are you ever going to see the value promised from pany’s project portfolio?
The question is all too familiar. The concern is real and legitimate. Technology and other project
initiatives have grown faster than the ability of panies to manage them—affecting the
return on the investment of trillions of dollars while ill panies for today’s unpredictable
environment.
Indeed, in Connecting the Dots, Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan argue that the portfolio is
anization’s future currency—the single most important asset for delivering on strategic and
operational objectives. And the best way to leverage this currency is through greater alignment.
Connecting the Dots employs a practical “play the hand you are holding” approach, providing a
balance of concepts and roll-up-your-sleeves guidance on how to:
Determine how well-aligned—or misaligned—anization is today
Reveal opportunities for increasing portfolio economics
Apply tools to reduce portfolio risk while improving its efficiency, flexibility, and direction
Instill new mind-sets to better respond to whatever future presents itself
About the Authors
Cathleen Benko is Braxton’s Global e-Business Leader.
F. Warren Mc