How to Double Your Project Portfolio ROI

Most portfolios deliver only half their potential. Start with a short executive overview, see a real-world transformation, then follow a six-part series on the five disciplines that double portfolio ROI.

Executive overview – Learn how to double your project portfolio ROI

Executive overview (5:45)

Why most portfolios deliver only half their potential, where value leaks occur, and the five disciplines that close the gap. See how treating ROI as a managed lifecycle—rather than a one-off business-case number—drives better choices, faster flow, and higher realised returns.

Case study – How APA doubled project portfolio ROI with TransparentChoice, 15-minute video

Case Study: American Planning Association (14:20)

How reframing the PMO as a Strategy Realization Office accelerated delivery of strategic outcomes—through shifts in governance, prioritisation, and benefits tracking. This video is a 14-minute highlight; to dive deeper, watch the full 1-hour webinar.

The 5 Steps to Doubling ROI

Six short videos to put the five disciplines into practice and double portfolio ROI.

5 steps to double project portfolio ROI, Part 1 of 6 – Introduction: Why ROI often falls short

Introduction — Why ROI falls short (2:15)

ROI promises often fail to materialise. This introduction highlights the common leaks — pet projects, overload, weak benefits tracking — and sets up a disciplined approach to close the gap.

5 steps to double project portfolio ROI, Part 2 – Project Prioritization

Step 1 — Project prioritization (3:56)

Prioritization is the biggest lever. Moving from opinion-driven choices to structured, strategy-led decisions eliminates pet projects and surfaces the true winners.

5 steps to double project portfolio ROI, Part 3 – Portfolio Rebalancing

Step 2 — Portfolio rebalancing (6:59)

Balance investments across categories like KTLO, risk reduction, growth, and innovation. Rebalancing shifts resources from low-value to high-leverage work and ensures the portfolio matches strategy.

5 steps to double project portfolio ROI, Part 4 – Top of a Higher Hill, improving project flow and throughput

Step 3 — Increase project flow (8:59)

Too much work-in-progress slows delivery and hides problems. Limiting WIP reduces overload and multitasking, improves throughput, and accelerates realised benefits.

5 steps to double project portfolio ROI, Part 5 – Simply Staggering, sequencing projects for higher returns

Step 4 — Project Staggering (6:13)

AI-powered optimization reveals the best portfolio mix under real constraints. It surfaces trade-offs, shows the “efficient frontier,” and helps leaders choose the highest-value set of projects.

5 steps to double project portfolio ROI, Part 6 – The Benefit of Benefits, focusing on benefits realization

Step 5 — Benefits realization (6:27)

ROI is only real when benefits are delivered. This step emphasizes tracking, adapting, and actively managing benefits as a flow — turning projected ROI into realised ROI.

Turn insights into impact

What PMOs achieve when they apply the five disciplines

  • Real ROI: Move beyond business cases to value actually delivered.
  • Faster flow: Less overload, less multitasking, quicker results.
  • Smarter choices: Strategy-led prioritization and balanced portfolios.
  • Credibility: Transparent governance and stronger executive confidence.
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