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Assessing your initiative portfolio

Assessing your initiative portfolio

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Assessing your initiative portfolio

- Now once you have that understanding of here are the initiatives that are above the line, take a step back and assess the portfolio of what you're pursuing and what you're saying is high-priority. So what I like to do is take a look at the objective functions of the organization and what my goals are. Then, map those initiatives, all of them, not just the ones above the line but all of them against those goals and see how they perform. And then what I do, is I look at which ones are my high-priority ones, and which ones are my low-priority ones? And do I have a mix of that portfolio across high-priority things that are driving my agenda and not allocate resources to things that are low-priority. So let's look at an example. Let's imagine I have two goals in my organization. My first goal may be going global and my other goal may be launching new products and that's what I want to achieve in the organization. What I can then do is map all of my initiatives against how well they help…

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