An organization has been able to achieve consensus on its strategic goals, but has not agreed internally on how these goals should be met or whether the current activities are aligned with these…

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Options

• Afocus on portfolio management planning for the next business cycle.
• Bsuspend activities not aligned to the organization's portfolio roadmap and strategic goals.
• Cperform a comprehensive risk analysis on the portfolio components currently underway.
• Dperform a gap analysis to recommend an optimized portfolio.

• A
  12% (3)
• B
  76% (19)
• C
  8% (2)
• D
  4% (1)

Explanation

The portfolio manager has already completed the survey of the current portfolio, its management plan, and component reports - that survey effectively constitutes the initial analysis. Since the organization has reached consensus on strategic goals, the portfolio manager now has a clear baseline to judge alignment. The most urgent first action is to stop expending resources on activities that are demonstrably not aligned with agreed strategic goals, preventing further waste. Planning for the next business cycle (A) is premature while misaligned work is ongoing. A comprehensive risk analysis (C) is not the priority when alignment is the core issue. A formal gap analysis (D) identifies what is missing from the portfolio, but the immediate problem is misaligned active work, which must be addressed first.

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