EPK-Suite

Portfolio Management

for All efforts, not just projects

Affordable and Comprehensive Functionality

Based on our average of 30 years in the project management industry, the EPK Group founders recognize that real portfolio management must consider more than just major projects. The resources in today's organizations are involved in support, operations, sustaining engineering in addition to their major project assignments. For many organizations, the majority of the total effort is the "non project" work. This means the real problem is "resource management", continually adjusting resource staffing to meet the ever changing priorities. To meet this Capacity vs. Demand problem:

EPK-Suite helps by:

• Providing a complete inventory of all efforts in the organization

• Including functions to prioritize your corporate portfolio of project and operational initiatives

• Analyzing multiple scenarios for delaying projects and other work, cancelling efforts that no longer meet business goal, changing spend rates, etc.

• Providing "stage-gate" process control of the complete life cycle of all work

• Enabling comprehensive budgeting and cost management

• Giving managers tools to analyze resource "capacity vs. demand" and assure that resources are working on the efforts that align with corporate goals

• Tracking how staff time is being expended to enable better estimating in the future and compare budget vs. actual manpower and cost comparisons

Does the chart to the left reflect your firm's situation?

Most organizations have more work than can be handled effectively by the resources they have. The most pressing problems facing the organization are prioritizing the various efforts, controlling how new initiatives are evaluated against current efforts, assigning resources  efficiently, and  accurately tracking progress and performance.

Many systems just help you develop your strategy, or help you with "project management", or "resource management", or provide a timesheet. We at EPK Group believe that without an integrated approach to planning, tracking and managing ALL effort, including support, projects, new initiatives, etc., the best strategy won't produce results. Nor will just good project management when resources are involved in day to day operational and support efforts.

EPK-Suite™, Enterprise Portfolio Knowledge in action.