PORTFOLIO

PartnerLink Portfolio – Strategic Overview

The Portfolio is a strategic management tool for identifying the patterns of good and poor practice across a group of key business relationships such as marketing channels and preferred suppliers, viewed through a series of Barometers or Partnership appraisals. The report summarises the strategic relationship performance drivers. It allows Boards to focus on the performance of the portfolio organisations and the corporate headquarters. It can also aid decision-making on portfolio composition.

What is the PartnerLink Portfolio Report?

• A strategic summary of the findings of a number of PartnerLink Barometer, Partnership or Alliance assessments

• Relationships within the portfolio are ranked in order of joint partnership performance

• A synthesis of the key issues within a grouping of relationships such as HR, culture, performance and best practice

• Analysis that uses the latest scientific thinking on collaborative business relationships and is able to make sense of complex situations

What does the PartnerLink Portfolio Report achieve?

• Allows the key relationship performance trends to be identified so they can either be modified or developed

• Allows a strategic review and improvement programme to be established and managed

When is the PartnerLink Portfolio used?

• When a number of strategic relationships need to be managed efficiently and strategically

• To allow the identification and targeted spreading of best practice

• To to monitor and set performance targets