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The role Monitoring and reporting on the various accounts under the portfolio. The primary focus is on the financial management (P & L Owner and Financial Forecasting) of these accounts and the delivery is done aligned successfully (projects, services and customer satisfaction). Enable Growth of Applications business, cross & up sell offerings in existing and … Read more
I have been reading a report from IDC related to the manufacturing industry, and one of the things, I liked was the categorization done based on what it is that drives the cadence of the business and the associated supply chain. These sub-groups are: Asset – oriented value chains are characterized by large investments in … Read more
Supply chain organizations can benefit from greater visibility into the cadence of demand. The problem is that the cadence of the demand is sometimes not clear or you cannot build a demand pattern to take advantage. By this reason, you can find businesses that defend the idea of using demand signals to run production strategies, … Read more
In this small series of posts related to application portfolio management, I wrote about the issues I found in a “problematic” portfolio and about tools & methodology. The next component I wanted to write is about the strategy to put in place the improvement plan I have prepared. I had an idea about how to … Read more
I use the inbox as a to-do list for all e-mails I have to do something. I have another to-do lists, but this takes so much of the weekly activities. I fight against it as so much people do, and I organize my agenda based on objectives, being the e-mail as something that happens and … Read more
A collection of news to follow-up merge and acquisitions of GE. 2014 November, 5th: GE acquires Alstom energy, in reality the Business Unit that really makes sense for GE ($13.5 billion). November, 6th: GE Money Bank AB (Nordics) sold to Santander Consumer Finance S.A for ±700m€. 2015 January: GE sells equity business, to focus on industrial activities. … Read more
I was writing about some generic reasons that could cause a portfolio to go in the wrong direction. So how could we improve this situation? Fix some of the pillars of the delivery of an account is not an easy business, you need to continue delivering, and all that today is in a rush will … Read more
This year I was able to go to the Pyrenees mountain and ride for five days on the never-ending trails of Ainsa. Nice place to ride and rest, a year where we picked the routes in a very good way. The only problem we had was the temperature, so so warm days. (Bajo de Peña … Read more
The management of a portfolio of applications is in some ways similar to the management of an account, in the way that you have in one hand the customer satisfaction and on the other hand you have the profit you do. I would like to go in deep for a situation like the one showed … Read more
Now this blog is hosted in a different server, and the result is just better in terms of time response. I came from an average load time of 3,5s to an average load time of 2,15s. The first 2 requests took 1,3s; mainly the web browser waiting for response from server (yellow line). Now this … Read more