Strengthen your Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) Plan

Strengthen your Program and Portfolio Management Strategy

Digital business transformation and product-centric delivery models are dramatically changing the role and mandate of program and portfolio management leaders

2024 Strategic Portfolio Management Frameworks, Processes and Tools Investments Roadmap

Budget restrictions and talent shortages bring difficulty in identifying the right Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) investments in 2024.

This roadmap harnesses collective wisdom of 130 program and portfolio management leaders to understand deployment plans, adoption timelines, value and risk posed by frameworks, processes and tools across SPM. This benchmark data will help organizations:

Assess progress on SPM.
Identify adoption challenges faced by your peers.
Improve portfolio investment decisions.

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The Role of PMO: Bridge Strategy and Execution

Organizations are pursuing more ambitious and transformational strategies. Meanwhile, execution is not getting easier. Join this free webinar to learn what leading organizations are doing to improve the alignment of managers’ execution decisions and accelerating strategy execution in an uncertain business climate.

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Program & Portfolio Management Leaders must reinvent their approach for portfolio management

As organizations accelerate digital business initiatives and prepare for “forever hybrid” work environments, most struggle to keep pace with change.¹ Traditional PMOs, EPMOs and associated practices, often lack the speed and flexibility most organizations require to compete in today’s digital business. PMOs and EPMOs that fail to modernize their practices and principles risk elimination. PPM leaders must embrace modern behaviours and new capabilities establish themselves as trusted partners in value delivery and strategy execution.

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How we address top challenges of PPM and PMO leaders

Digital business transformation and product-centric delivery are changing the role and mandate of program and portfolio management leaders. Gartner helps PPM leaders reinvent and manage a business-outcome-driven, strategic PMO or EPMO to support enterprise transformation.

How to Adapt PMO Strategy to Respond to High Inflation and a Recession

Changes, when left unaddressed, often create misalignment between enterprise and portfolio strategies. With rising inflation and a possible recession, PMO leaders can adapt their PMO strategy by focusing on these three areas.

Adapt Strategy

Strategic Architecture Roadmap to Composable Future of Applications

Get ready for the world after the pandemic and prepare for the next wave of change with the roadmap to composability. Rewatch one of the Gartner top sessions from our 2021 conferences for application leaders.

How to Enable Organizational Change Management in a Digital Business

Digital business acceleration and the pandemic have increased the volume and complexity of organizational change. To manage change successfully, PMO leaders must build change management capabilities among three key stakeholder segments — portfolio decision makers, BU leaders and impacted employees.

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Understanding Product Management and Its Impact on Strategic Portfolio Leaders

This infographic outlines the core attributes of product management and key action steps that strategic portfolio leaders must take to evolve their function’s mandate and competencies to support this model.

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Tracking the Career Paths of IT PMO and EPMO Leaders

As PMOs adapt to the shift to Agile and product management, PMO leaders have an opportunity to consider a wide array of career paths. The findings in this infographic are based on analyses of publicly available LinkedIn profiles for two groups of PMO leaders.

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