By optimizing its outsourcing strategy, a company faces the opportunity to lower the overall costs of its IT project portfolio. Without considering risk and diversification effects appropriately, companies make wrong decisions about how much of a project is reasonable to outsource. In this paper, we elaborate a model to identify a project’s optimal degree of outsourcing at a fixed price, consid...

We present a portfolio selection methodology that responds to three major goals that most R&D organizations are concerned with – effectiveness, efficiency, and balance. The methodology uses a strategy-oriented, multi-criterion, evaluation model that integrates concepts from data envelopment analysis (DEA) and balanced scorecard (BSC). It is based on two subsequent phases. At the first phase ind...

Purpose: Despite an obvious connection, business process improvement and BPM capability development have been studied intensely, but in isolation. We thus aim to make the case for research located at the intersection of both streams. We thereby focus on the integrated planning of business process improvement and BPM capability development as this is where, in our opinion, both streams have the ...

In traditional information technology project portfolio management (ITPPM), managers often pay more attention to the optimization of portfolio selection in the initial stage. In fact, during the portfolio implementation process, there are still issues to be optimized. Organizing cooperation will enhance the efficiency, although it brings more immediate risk due to the complex variety of links b...

Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is an essential component of an organisation’s strategic procedures, which requires attention of several factors to envisage a range of long-term outcomes to support strategic project portfolio decisions. To evaluate overall efficiency at the portfolio level, it is essential to identify the functionality of specific projects as well as to aggregate those findi...

this paper investigates the problem of selecting and scheduling a set of projects among available projects. each project consists of several tasks and to perform each one some resource is required. the objective is to maximize total benefit. the paper constructs a mathematical formulation in form of mixed integer linear programming model. three effective metaheuristics in form of the imperialis...