Information Technology Portfolio Management (ITPM) is a topic of intense interest in the strategic management of information technology (IT). In ITPM, IT synchronization with corporate business strategy is operationalized by the application of the principles of financial portfolio management to IT investments. This perspective is crucial to the continual alignment of business strategy and IT in...

The relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) wasexamined using nationally-representative data from 3 countries (USA, Thailand and Australia).Individual data were obtained for participants aged 35 years or above from the NHANES III,InterASIA and AusDiab I studies. We examined the association between CKD prevalence (GFR <60ml/min/1.73 m) an...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new two-stage method for fuzzy multi-objective linear program and apply to engineering project portfolio selection. In the fuzzy multi-objective linear program, all the objective coefficients, technological coefficients and resources are trapezoidal fuzzy numbers (TrFNs). An order relationship for TrFNs is introduced by using the interval expectation of...

In the present enterprise computing environment, it becomes more and more important to be able to demonstrate financial gains of IT (Information Technology) initiatives compared to their cost. A valuation methodology is a logical, repeatable fi-amework for making IT investment decisions and monitoring projects to ensure that they ultimately contribute to the financial health and growth of the e...

Multicriteria Portfolio Analysis spans several methods which typically employ build on MCDA to guide the selection of a subset (i.e., portfolio) of available objects, with the aim of maximising the performance of the resulting portfolio with regard to multiple criteria, subject to the requirement that the selected portfolio does not consume of resources consumed by the portfolio does not exceed...

Project portfolio management (PPM) is evolving swiftly and becoming the main tool of managing complex project environment. Many organisations are adopting this system in an effort to achieve a better strategic alignment, reduce organisational project complexity, increase the project success rate and improve utilisation of organisation’s resources. The paper aims to examine motivations for imple...

Increasing economy’s resistance against the menace of sanctions, various risks, shocks, and internal and external threats are one of the main national policies which can be implemented through bank investments. Investment project selection is a complex and multi-criteria decision-making process that is influenced by multiple and often some conflicting objectives. This paper studies portfolio inve...