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A Methodology for R&D Portfolio Management Decision Making Under Uncertainty - Applied Towards Timely Reallocation of Investments with Stalling Projects
A Methodology for R&D Portfolio Management Decision Making Under Uncertainty - Applied Towards Timely Reallocation of Investments with Stalling Projects
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202105518
- ISBN
- 9798263341114
- DDC
- 658.4063
- 저자명
- Hong, Alicia.
- 서명/저자
- A Methodology for R&D Portfolio Management Decision Making Under Uncertainty - Applied Towards Timely Reallocation of Investments with Stalling Projects
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 285 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-05, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Mavris, Dimitri N.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Portfolio Management is a critical process in Research and Development (R&D) organizations that has been widely credited for determining which strategic investments to make. Throughout the last forty years, well established best practices in financial portfolio management have been adapted to improve R&D investment decisions. With the critical role that R&D plays in revenue sustainment, improvements in R&D portfolio management have been a continued area of focus. Strategic project selection, in particular, has been the focus of many studies aimed at creating high-value and robust portfolios. However, in order to maintain a high-value portfolio, portfolio managers must adopt an exit strategy to pivot from stalling projects to ideas with higher potential value. Current decision-making practices may utilize traditional metrics such as value, budget, and schedule which provide some insights into R&D projects. However, these metrics may not provide adequate awareness of the productivity in R&D spending, which can lead to prolonged funding of projects that are not progressing. Metrics such as value or increasing value trends can also motivate continued funding for projects when there is high potential to disrupt the industry. Furthermore, uncertainty, a typical characteristic of R&D projects, contributes to the challenges in understanding project outcomes, resulting in decision paralysis. This dissertation will explore the effectiveness of a new visibility tool to provide insights into the productivity of R&D spending for the purpose of motivating portfolio managers to terminate stalling projects.This study is broken into two phases. The first phase involved collecting responses through a portfolio management computer simulation which established a baseline for the experiment. Participants played the role of a portfolio manager, dispositioning each project through a twelve-month period. Two variations of the simulations were created; one specifically for the aerospace community and the other with more general project titles. A comparison between the two sets of results showed small differences in responses to perpetuate stalled projects. The data collected was combined to use as an aggregate baseline data set used to generate the supplemental visibility tool. The productivity threshold was created from the boundary of successful projects in Phase 1. This analysis involved assessing project's remaining risk in relation to sunk cost. This visualization tool was implemented in Phase 2 to determine the effectiveness of the additional productivity insights.The next phase of the study included the Productivity Threshold view into the same simulation dashboard from Phase 1. As participants progressed through the simulation, historical risk and sunk cost project data was provided in addition to the current project status. This allowed participants to understand the productivity trajectory by utilizing budgets to reduce risks, as well as insights provided by traditional metrics. The threshold further provided awareness of the boundary of historically successful projects. The combination of the threshold and historical project path was intended to trigger a closer look at stalling projects and provide a basis for pivoting to new ideas. The effectiveness of the productivity threshold view is discussed in this dissertation along with more detailed analyses based on key simulation factors and demographics. Analyses also included interactions with simulation factors to identify key combinations of factors that were most effective. A post simulation survey captured insights from participants to supplement the analyses in proving the effectiveness of the threshold. The survey also captured comments that identified simulation bias and learning curve effects. This dissertation contributes to best practices in R&D portfolio management by proving that additional insights in R&D productivity directly contribute to strategic decisions to reduce investments in stalling projects.
- 일반주제명
- Innovations
- 일반주제명
- Motivation
- 일반주제명
- Investments
- 일반주제명
- Success
- 일반주제명
- Funding
- 일반주제명
- Decision making
- 일반주제명
- Computer simulation
- 일반주제명
- Technology
- 일반주제명
- Aerospace engineering
- 일반주제명
- Pharmaceutical sciences
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-05A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■650 4▼aMotivation
■650 4▼aInvestments
■650 4▼aSuccess
■650 4▼aFunding
■650 4▼aDecision making
■650 4▼aComputer simulation
■650 4▼aResearch & development--R&D
■650 4▼aTechnology
■650 4▼aAerospace engineering
■650 4▼aPharmaceutical sciences
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■71020▼aGeorgia Institute of Technology.
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■791 ▼aPh.D.
■792 ▼a2024
■793 ▼aEnglish
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