Strategic Portfolio Management through Effective Communications

The Chapter 8 defines the concepts involved and how portfolio management as well as communication, including collaboration aspects, have evolved during the last decades both from a process and an enabler standpoint including a review of some of the literature in the field. Next, it describes the importance of communication to strategic portfolio management.

It is followed by a discussion to present how communication should be implemented around strategic portfolio management in order to maximise its impact and relevance throughout the organization and the key considerations during the implementation process.

The conclusion explains that communication transcends its environment by allowing collaborators to address strategy, performance, governance, and risks topics aligning operations and portfolios of programs and projects to achieve overarching business objectives.