Portfolio Leadership
Value Management Is Not Cost Reduction
Filed under quality and run during delivery, a value study can only cut cost. Its real question — what is this element for? — has to be asked before commitment.
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Leadership and Decision-Making
Who Is Entitled to Say It Worked?
Most organisations judge an investment when success cannot yet be known, against a forecast, by the people who made it. All three are choices.
Leadership and Decision-Making
What Must Be True: The Assumptions Register as a Strategy Instrument
Every strategy rests on beliefs nobody has verified. Most organisations record them once in an appendix, then never look at them again until something fails.
Leadership and Decision-Making
What Is the Risk of Not Doing It?
Every business case appraises the options. None of them appraises doing nothing — which is the only forecast in the paper that nobody is required to defend.
Leadership and Decision-Making
The Estimate Was Made by the People Who Needed to Win
Optimistic forecasts are usually blamed on weak estimating. The more useful explanation is that the number was produced by the party who needed the answer to be yes.
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