文档介绍：518 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT, VOL. 48, NO. 4, NOVEMBER 2001
Technology Portfolio Management: Optimizing
Interdependent Projects Over Multiple Time Periods
Michael W. Dickinson, Anna C. Thornton, and Stephen Graves
Abstract—In order to petitiveness, companies eneral Kadish’s quote illustrates the importance of tech-
need to continually invest in technology projects. However, G nology portfolio management. An enterprise may have
resource limitations require anization to strategically the best technology, but if it does not apply it in the proper
allocate resources to a subset of possible projects. A variety
of tools and methods can be used to select the optimal set of way, at the proper time, and in support of the overall objec-
technology projects. However, these methods are only applicable tives of pany, it may have minimum impact. The con-
when projects are independent and are evaluated in mon cept of building business portfolios emerged in the late 1950s
funding cycle. When projects are interdependent, plexity and evolved through the 1970s to e an established plan-
of optimizing even a moderate number of projects over a small ning tool [10]. Early applications of portfolio management bal-
number of objectives and constraints can e overwhelming.
This paper presents a model developed for the pany, anced resource allocation between business u