Your sponsor has urged you to analyze Portfolio Risk before the end-of-week governance board meeting as the CEO will be present and is interested in Portfolio risk data in particular. Currently, you do not have adequate risk information in order to analyze data and give recommendations. Which tool is the most suitable for you to use in this case?
As the portfolio manager in the third largest automotive manufacturer in your country, you have a large number of components especially new vehicles each year but also support for dealers, advertising, maintaining the brand image, increasing market share plus continuous improvement initiatives. You have contingency reserve to use to prepare to handle any risks that may occur, which is based on:
You are managing a highly technical portfolio and are already mid-way through the implementation. You know that the communication is key to success as all the involved parties and stakeholders have a high technical exposure and you should maintain their buy-in along the lifecycle. Part of your activities is to collaborate with stakeholders to reach a common ground and to resolve conflicts. Which of the following is considered a collaboration technique?
Assume your telecom company is time constrained and needs to be first to market with new smart phones with features that are different from those of the competition and also have the traditional features desired by your existing customers. The Portfolio Review Board meets weekly to assess performance and to consider new components. Lack of technical resources is a recurring issue. To make the case for acquiring new resources, you decided to assess capability and capacity. This approach is:
You have been managing a complex portfolio for the banking industry and it is sought to be the shifting to the top-notch digital banking era for one of the major international banks. You know you will have changes along the lifecycle and you plan to manage them correctly in order to maintain alignment and correct execution. If you need to reflect changes based on cost, requirements, and schedule. To which of the following section in the portfolio management plan will you refer?
Portfolio managers tend to use the efficient frontier analysis as a modeling approach that gives decision makers the analytical tool to optimize portfolios given resource constraints such as risk. In which of the Portfolio management processes the efficient frontier is mostly used
A new portfolio manager in your organization is currently preparing his portfolio charter and has come to you asking advice about what should be present in charter
Due to market technological changes, your company got impacted and was urged to revise its portfolios. You are currently revising your portfolio to determine the required changes in the component mix. Which of the following options helps in comparing the current portfolio mix to the new strategic direction in order to determine the needed changes?
There was a change in your portfolio to speed up things resulting in the addition of new components. In order to update the new vision, dependencies and timeline for the components, you should update which of the following?
Although you are the Portfolio Manager in your company, you also are the Enterprise Program Office Director, and it consumes most of your time. Your executive team has lost interest in regular portfolio review meetings, the few that are held are routine, and any proposed component receives automatic approval. The Executive Vice President for Human Resources spoke to the CEO as she noticed some people seem to be completely overloaded, they are actively looking for new opportunities, and are then leaving the company. She also pointed out that others seem to have idle time. Her comments got the CEO's attention, and you have been asked in your role as the portfolio manager to create an up-to-date list of qualified components in the portfolio. You are doing so in order to:
