Hi, I'm Jon, and this is a series of short articles called "Tales from a Portfolio Manager". I help people in corporates plan technology across teams. so you could be someone with a portfolio - of clients, projects, services or a backlog of features and you have to manage them across a wide variety of teams to achieve any number of goals. I have been doing these roles for over 20 years for many corporates and I have a few tales to tell. The best thing I can do for you is to encapsulate that ...
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Article 9 - Achieving Alignment with Adam Lacey from Assembleyou.
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Adam, from assembleyou, was kind enough to invite me onto their Power Skills Project podcast a couple of weeks ago. It would be very rare to find people who don't work in teams, across the departments and quite often when we have a conversation with somebody, we have an objective in mind, from deciding where to go to lunch all the way to negotiatin…
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8. How To Enable Innovation | Stay Ahead Of Emerging Technologies
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Other links mentioned in the article: Create a Portfolio https://www.strategicdigitalbusinesspartner.com/blog/tales-from-a-portfolio-manager-2/post/5-create-a-portfolio-of-work-15 Shared Outcomes Blogpost: https://www.strategicdigitalbusinesspartner.com/blog/tales-from-a-portfolio-manager-2/post/shared-outcomes-8 Hackathons: https://www.hackerearth…
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Article 7: Trust Enables Strategic Partnerships
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------------ Links mentioned in the Podcast: Free Course Trial: https://bta.news/nmu Organisation Partner Maturity Model: https://www.strategicdigitalbusinesspartner.com/strategic-partnerships#OPM Shared Outcomes Blogpost: https://www.strategicdigitalbusinesspartner.com/blog/tales-from-a-portfolio-manager-2/post/shared-outcomes-8 Changing Gears Blo…
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Article 6: How Do You Know When You Are Successful?
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Links mentioned in the Podcast: Free Course Trial: https://bta.news/nmu If, like me, you've had a long list of potential projects to review, triage and investigate, you may have come across entries that need to be clarified. For example, it could simply just read "Hospitality Management System". There are no clues as to the purpose, how urgent it i…
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Links mentioned in the Podcast: Free Course Trial: https://bta.news/nmu Imagine the scene. Your boss organises an improvement workshop to brainstorm how members of the Customer Success Team can improve alignment between what we do as a central technology function for a portfolio of about 20 key customers and the overall company's goals. At the meet…
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Article 4: Empathy Helps Unlock Alternative Solutions
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Links mentioned in the Podcast: Free Course Trial: https://bta.news/nmu Transcript: Imagine the scene: you're having your monthly meeting with your business sponsor, going through the progress reports, project deliverables, service levels, and future ideas. They say, "Well, look, we have an idea where we want to improve the experience of our visito…
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Article 3: Changing Gears from a Reactive Partner to a Strategic Partner
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Links mentioned in the article: Organisation Partner Maturity: https://bta.news/aqb The five Competencies: https://bta.news/25n Free Course Trial: https://bta.news/nmu Transcript: Imagine the scene. Your boss has just come out of a meeting with the finance director of your company. It's September, and he looks at you and says, "time to sharpen your…
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Hi, I'm Jon, and this is a series of short articles called "Tales from a Portfolio Manager". I help people in corporates plan technology across teams. so you could be someone who has a portfolio - of clients, projects, services or a backlog of features and you have to manage them across a wide variety of teams to achieve any number of goals. I have…
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IT Business Partner - The inspiration, the sell and the implementation
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It's my pleasure this month to discuss with James how he has made IT Business Partnering a core theme of his IT department at the Dog's trust. I delve a little deeper into what makes James tick to elicit some key traits and behaviours that make IT Business Partnering a success. It helps other IT Business Partners understand "How do other people do …
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Applying Start-up Principles to Corporate Innovation
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Today we discuss with Chris Hodgson some of the innovation principles employed in Start-up companies and how they can be applied to the corporate environment. Chris outlines the three horizon view to innovation, the very different approaches required for each, their measures and the different teams of people that make them work. To understand more …
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Using influence to get business case approval
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Your host Jon Baxter is helped by Robina Chatham to understand the finer points of how to deal with executives in the boardroom and persuade them to agree on his business case. Great podcast for those people with a technical focus!
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