This report on IT portfolio management addresses the unique needs of CIOs who want to improve the track record of IT investment in their company. As this report points out, their job is not to pick the right investments. The business leaders who are accountable for business results should make those decisions. Instead, this report identifies the important roles that CIOs can play in the IT portfolio management process.

This report suggests how to recruit the appropriate business managers into the process, and provides a useful approach to getting those conversations moving. It goes on to discuss the CIO’s role as the operational manager who has to deliver the value of the IT portfolio. And throughout, the CIO is positioned as a much needed trusted advisor on what’s possible. The CIO alone has the expertise to choose the technical approach that will achieve long- and short-term objectives, and provide the agility to survive on what I have called ‘the information frontier’.

Recommended both to CIOs who are building an IT portfolio for the first time and to those who want to improve their existing programmes.