Process Design for Digital Innovation Portfolio Management: Master thesis report

This thesis focuses on designing a process for balancing and prioritizing the digital innovation project portfolio of a rental equipment company. The company operates in a traditional industry in which themes like digital transformation and digitalization are new emerging themes that are yet to be accepted by the industry. Therefore, in order to...

Creating a Framework for Effective Innovation Project Portfolio Management

Most firms have more ideas for innovation projects than the R&D budget can support. On top of that, the industry of firm-X (at which the research took place) is characterized with long development cycles and expensive full scale testing. Therefore, it takes these firms a long time to actually see effects in form of the returns on their...

Influences on Project Portfolio Management Adoption

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) has the potential to bring considerable benefits to organisations. Although PPM should improve project success, not all project management based working organisations have fully adopted PPM as part of their way of working. The question that arises here is ‘why?’. The concept of PPM Adoption has not received...

Innovation Project Portfolio Management: A case study in the field of high-tech research

The field of Innovation Project Portfolio (IPPM) is a relatively new field of interest in literature and only few articles are written with respect to this subject. Two streams of literature can be found in this field: from New Product Development (NPD) towards R&D selection and from PPM towards innovation. The combination of both and the impact...

Project Portfolio Management: Business Strategy Realisation Through Projects

Project portfolio management is the act of maintaining control over a variety of projects, balancing conflicting requirements of projects, and coordinate the portfolio to ensure optimal organizational benefits. It is a manner for companies to analyse and manage a group of projects to harvest benefits that would not be available if projects are...

Exploring NVP in portfolio management: A case study in NXP

Project portfolio management (PPM) functions as a bridge between business strategy and project selection and evaluation. The role of Net Present Value (NPV) in portfolio management varies across companies, based on their business strategy in different levels. As a leading semiconductor company, NXP desires to investigate effective portfolio...

Improving the maturity of project portfolio management

This research has been performed with the organisation of NedTrain. NedTrain is an organisation which is responsible for the maintenance on the rolling stock of the Dutch railway system. In 2006 they have implemented project portfolio management in their organisation however they struggle to manage it properly. For that reason they want to...