The Four Pillars of Portfolio Management: Organizational Agility, Strategy, Risk, and Resources [Paperback]

The book explains how to manage a project portfolio by finding a balance between exposure to risk, alignment with strategy, and optimization of the resources. It presents models for defining organizational priorities, which are central to effect project portfolio management. It also presents a framework for developing corporate agility.

Olivier Lazar is an organizational architecture consultant, coach, and trainer, as well as a graduate with a masters degree and an executive MBA in strategy, project, and program management from the Lille Graduate School of Management and a graduate from the PMI Leadership Institute Master Class in 2013. Committed to the advancement of the profession, hes Managing Partner and COO at The Valense Palatine Group, acting Project Management Director at Altran Switzerland, a former president at the PMI Switzerland Chapter, and has hold various global volunteering leadership roles at PMI. With more than 20 years of Organizational Governance, Change, Project and Program Leadership experience, both on the operational and consulting perspective, Olivier has worked in a large scope of industries, from corporate finance to aerospace, and from E-business to pharmaceutical and energy where he has created organizationally agile environments fostering engagement, motivation and performance. Olivier accompanies organizations in their transition to higher levels of Maturity through in the rethinking of their structures and governance principles. Focusing on Value and Change Management, Olivier helps in delivering Organizational Transformation.

Portfolio management consists mainly of making decisions about which initiatives to undertake, which initiatives not to pursue, and which resources are to be allocated to which portfolio component. At least, thats how it is most commonly presented in textbooks and courses. Indeed, it is all of that, but it is also so much more.