30 Minutes

It’s easy to tell when your business is overcommitted, over budget and overwhelmed.

It’s not so easy to prevent it from happening.

Step one is to gain insight into your business activities and ask the hard question, are they translating into business results?

With multiple operational and strategic activities under evaluation or underway at any given moment, you need the ability to step back to see which ones are truly aligned with business objectives.

The question is, how? How will you get a better view of what’s going on, put better controls in place, prioritize investments and implement consistent quality practices—without breaking the budget or further burdening the staff?

We interview Ken Cheney to gain HP's perspective on Project and Portfolio Management .