Assume you are a functional manager in your medical device company in research and development. Your scientists have determined a new product that will be a breakthrough for the company, and you want to serve as the sponsor for this component and present it to your Portfolio Review Board. You will need resources from other parts of the company to commercialize it. As you prepare your proposal you are following the key descriptors set up by the portfolio staff and will include:

You have been assigned as the manager for a major transformation portfolio in your company.
You have a new direction in sight and you need to work with the team to attain the end goal and achieve the expected strategy. You are currently in the middle of developing the strategic plan and require the following inputs

A portfolio manager has several portfolio communications to distribute to the steering committee and stakeholders, but this information must be sent simultaneously in order to avoid confusion.
The tool that will be most effective in distributing this information is a/an:

It is critical in portfolio management to focus on 'doing the right work'. This means stakeholder expectations and effective management of these expectations are essential. The primary conduit between the component managers and the other portfolio stakeholders is the:

You have been recently assigned to a critical portfolio in your company and wanted to start right away and decided to begin with aligning the strategic management of the portfolio to the organizational strategy and objectives. For this you will use