Focal Point™
Align Your Product and Portfolio Management Investments with Business Objectives
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OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW
OVERVIEW
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FEATURES
FEATURES
FEATURES
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CASE STUDIES
CASE STUDIES
CASE STUDIES
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OVERVIEW
Focal Point provides product and portfolio management driven by market needs and your business objectives. This comprehensive solution helps you prioritize and select the right investments, balance change with business demands and align resources to deliver the right products at the right time. Now your executives and teams can make decisions that deliver greater value to your customers and your business.
FEATURES
- Improves decision making by enabling you to automatically incorporate stakeholder feedback, share centralized information and use objective information to support decisions.
- Takes advantage of multiple value-based selection techniques to remove the subjectivity that can cloud organizational decision making and lead to poor decisions.
- Centralizes information key to decision making, status reporting and portfolio reviews. This collaborative platform helps reduce the chaos of managing portfolio information using emails, documents and spreadsheets.
- Helps you determine the interaction and effect of a project sequence on revenue, costs and resources. Now you can quickly align and adjust road maps as business and marketplace needs change.
- Uses visualization, prioritization, road maps and plans to help you assess the effects of decisions. Now you can create plans that are achievable, value-based, and balanced against internal constraints and resources.
- Prioritizes and visualizes stakeholder needs. This minimizes the risk of reducing or eliminating valuable scope elements during project delivery.
- Enables you to visualize value and trade-offs from various stakeholders. You can view where stakeholders agree and disagree.
- Helps you identify alternative scenarios and the associated tradeoffs based on objective criteria. This helps you differentiate between similar, competing investments.
- Uses predefined configurations based on best practices to define a portfolio of investments driven by customer and business value, marketplace analysis and stakeholder collaboration.
- Allows you to craft a portfolio that balances the needs of the marketplace with your organization’s strategic goals and the profitability of your investments.
- Provides continual validation throughout the development and delivery lifecycle. This enables you to reprioritize as business conditions change, using real-time cost and benefit information.
- Helps ensure an optimal balance of required strategic capabilities with supporting products, projects and applications.
- Supports more effective resource allocation, so you can align development decisions with your overall business strategy.
- Integrates enterprise architecture and project execution into portfolio management. This helps ensure enterprise and project decisions are aligned with your company’s financial and market needs.
- Integrates with enterprise architecture (EA) solutions, helping to make your enterprise IT transformation plans more actionable and value-driven.
- Enables execution of your investment decisions through integration with project management applications. This allows you to scope and prioritize work items in alignment with key stakeholder requirements to ensure a value-driven execution.
CASE STUDIES
Chubb Insurance
Following a relocation of its European holding company from Brussels to London, Chubb Insurance came under the oversight of the UK Financial Services Authority – creating new, more complex requirements for risk management across the whole European organization.
Chubb’s Risk Management Office developed a web-based solution built on UNICOM Focal Point software. Users across Europe can collaborate in monitoring, assessing and managing risks and controls, while senior managers can gain a real-time overview of risk status.
Laminar Medica
In an increasingly competitive marketplace, Laminar Medica wantedto improve its insight into the competition to support future business growth.
The company used UNICOM Focal Point software to create a companywide resource for competitive intelligence that supports market-driven product development and more-informed portfolio decisions.
