Most portfolios contain more worthwhile initiatives than they can support.
TransparentChoice makes priorities and trade-offs explicit, applies funding and capacity constraints, and compares feasible portfolio choices. Leaders then decide what to fund, defer, stop or review, with the business consequences visible.
Your portfolio needs to keep pace as evidence, priorities, funding and capacity change.
The hard question is what stays, what gives way and why.
One recurring portfolio decision
Illustrative example
The current portfolio is already at delivery capacity. A mandatory cyber resilience initiative now needs room.
New constraint
Cyber resilience uplift must enter.
There is not enough spare capacity to add it without moving existing work.
Make room for cyber resilience while preserving the initiatives most directly tied to growth and customers.
Gives way
Fits the available delivery capacity
Make room for cyber resilience while preserving automation and platform work.
Gives way
Fits the available delivery capacity
Cyber resilience enters either way. The real choice is what gives way to make room.
If funding, capacity or priorities change again, TransparentChoice keeps the decision logic explicit so leadership can revisit the choice without starting the analysis again.
What the portfolio choice changes
What leadership commits to determines what the same funding and capacity are put to work delivering.
That can mean backing new priorities, reshaping, deferring or ending commitments that now have a weaker claim on resources, or deciding what further commitment to make to work already underway.
They come round throughout the year, at enterprise level and within business units, portfolios and major programmes.
Where should new funding or capacity go?
What existing commitments should change or give way?
For work already underway, what further commitment should we make now?
TransparentChoice is software for comparing portfolio choices and making their trade-offs and business consequences visible whenever these decisions come round.
TransparentChoice makes priorities explicit, compares choices that fit the available funding and capacity, and shows the business consequences of each.
Capture how leaders value competing objectives, test those judgements for consistency and keep important differences visible.
Apply funding, capacity and mandatory constraints to see what stays, what gives way and the business consequences of each choice.
Update priorities, assumptions or constraints and see what the portfolio choice becomes.
Leadership defines what matters and makes the final decision.
Works with what you already use. TransparentChoice sits alongside your existing PPM/SPM, analysis and governance rather than replacing them.
2× portfolio ROI
American Planning Association
Focused resources on initiatives that advanced strategy and cut low-value work, including retiring an international outreach programme that was not delivering.
View case study →€6m+ saved
Energinet
Around 60 of 80 IT projects were effectively top priority. Obsolete work was de-prioritized, freeing resources and saving more than €6 million.
View case study →Weeks → days portfolio planning cycles
Global Life Sciences Company
Leaders could adjust criteria, explore portfolio scenarios and see the impact immediately, reducing planning cycles from weeks to days.
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