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Challenges for the enterprise

The way we do business has changed fundamentally. The globalization has eliminated local markets, while Indian or Chinese products are now only a mouse click away. In addition, technological innovations are happening more quickly than before, requiring additional investments in knowledge, resources and raw materials. The impact on strategic project portfolios of international companies is huge.

Priorities and business case

Doing things right stays just as important, doing the right things has become even more important. This means that companies constantly have to review their plans and projects. Changes in market conditions, legislation, technology and ongoing projects require a regular review of priorities. Furthermore, the business case takes an increasingly important role. Without reviewing costs, benefits, risks and countermeasures, hardly any project will be started.

Business agility

The response time to changes in the market determines the chances of survival of a company. Insight in project progress, availability of resources and possible bottlenecks is required to optimize processes and projects. This gives you the opportunity to intervene and make adjustments in time. Moreover, it gives you the opportunity to make balanced choices and enable you to quickly adjust the priorities in the portfolio.

By mapping important milestone and associated performance indicators from the beginning and constantly report on this, you are able to keep control over your projects and make timely adjustments whenever necessary.

Efficiency en uniformiteit

Competition from low-wage countries, rising commodity prices and technological innovations force companies to constantly adjust their processes to make sure they don’t out-price themselves. This has a direct influence on the way projects are being organized and executed.

Best practices that lead to a more efficient project execution, such as a description of the project approach and risks, possible countermeasures, regular reviews and inspections of products, but also a proper planning where dependencies between deliverables are being captured, will contribute to this.

Companies constantly have to balance between opportunities and risks. The global economic crisis has further intensified this process; forcing organizations to analyze any investment decision in even greater detail. In addition, issues such as customer orientation, corporate governance, innovation strength, operational excellence and retaining the right employees have become more important than ever before.

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• Supports best practices such as PRINCE2, MSP, Stage Gate, Six Sigma,P3O,MoP, MoV and other;

• Can easily be customized, making it seamlessly fit with your organization, business unit or team;

• Fully web-based solution that can be implemented within a few weeks in any organization.

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Also a unified project approach is a big help, especially if you want to compare projects from various business units and regions based on their strategic contribution, costs and progress. A shared approach also enables the creation of consolidated reporting for management as well as provides tools to centrally manage local initiatives and local PMOs.

Governance

Accountability towards shareholders, customers and government is becoming increasingly important. Transparency is demanded by regulators and the media. This means organizations must be able to explain their choices.

Which choices have been made, why, by whom and when is therefore increasingly captured for projects and programs. This information is not only required for audits and other checks; it also helps to be accountable and to learn from this as an organization.

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Professional project management

The dynamic environments where large companies are in require extensive professionalization of the way they operate. Project management based on proven methodologies is an important tool to monitor complex project portfolios and programs.

Software support to improve uniformity where necessary, and simultaneously view and monitor the portfolios, programs and projects is essential. The Principal Toolbox of Fortes Solutions has been supporting this for over 15 years. Leading companies like ING, Vopak, Pon, Delta Lloyd, Friesland Campina and TomTom have been using the Principal Toolbox for many years already to manage their projects and portfolios efficiently.

Support of best practices

The Principal Toolbox is a scalable, web-based solution which fosters effective collaboration in projects, programs and portfolios. With the built-in support for PRINCE2, Stage Gate, Six Sigma, AgilePM, MSP, P3O, MoV, MoP and other best practices the software contributes to setting-up and managing projects,

programs and portfolios. Every methodology can be easily customized, making it seamlessly fit with the size and approach of your organization, business unit or team.

Financial insight and scenario analysis

With the Principal Toolbox you have a detailed overview of all (project) budgets, CAPEX/OPEX, reservations already made, and resources already spent. This allows you to simply create financial projections based on what the project managers reported about their projects. Using the ‘estimate at completion’ you know at any time which costs and end date to expect, on project, program as well as portfolio level.

The Principal Toolbox is able to analyze various portfolios including ROI and NPV calculations, and make associated risks transparent. This shortens your time to periodically review your portfolio with an average of 80%!

Clear overviews and reports

By using advanced graphical reports, you quickly see project progress, possible risks, spent cost and hours, consistency between projects and the status of your project portfolio. You are able to create these reports in just a few mouse clicks, and can export the data to Excel or Word for further analysis. In addition, dozens of commonly used reports and graphs are already available in the Principal Toolbox.

Easy implementation & excellent support

The Principal Toolbox can be implemented within six weeks in any organization, including all custom reports, project models and documentation. By default, the software and support is delivered in Dutch, English, German and French. The Principal Toolbox is being developed at our headquarters in the Netherlands. International sales and support is done by offices in Europe, North-America and Australia. This means you can always count on a quick response to your questions!

Our software is being used by:

Case: AllianderWith the professionalization of project management, Alliander did not only wanted to do projects right, but they also wanted to do the right projects. Alliander required insight and uniformity and in addition, they wanted more grip on portfolio choices. After an extensive selection, Alliander selected the Principal Toolbox.

Realizaed benefits: - Greatly simplified portfolio management; - Standaardization and en assurance of all processes; - Insight resources, dependencies and risks.