Portfolio Management

Service Overview

Portfolio management is a fundamental capability used to plan, align, and optimize innovation investments. It serves as the primary link between innovation strategy and product development execution, allowing leaders to fund the right mix of projects across all growth horizons.


As companies improve their portfolio management practices, they progress from static, manually driven approaches to dynamic decision-making using up-to-date data they can trust.

Accel helps companies lay the groundwork for dynamic portfolio management for those looking to accelerate growth from innovation. They provide leadership with the organizational design, processes, data, and tools to:

Improve decision making for selecting the most profitable projects

Improve decision making for selecting the most profitable projects

Optimize resource and pipeline loading

Optimize resource and pipeline loading

Run “what if” scenarios to optimize investment within and across product lines

Run “what if” scenarios to optimize investment within and across product lines

Establish clear project priorities

Establish clear project priorities

Ensure alignment between strategy and funded projects

Ensure alignment between strategy and funded projects

Our clients have realized the benefits of improved portfolio management discipline:

Resources working on the highest value projects

Resources working on the highest value projects

Balanced project mix aligned to growth ambition and risk profile

Balanced project mix aligned to growth ambition and risk profile

Improved development throughput

Improved development throughput

Improved development productivity with less wasted spending

Improved development productivity with less wasted spending

Clear project priorities

Clear project priorities

Informed data-driven decisions

Informed data-driven decisions

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