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Assume you are the corporate portfolio manager for your global organization. There is one portfolio at the corporate level, but other portfolios supporting business units and core areas of the company. One of these portfolios involves manufacturing, and its number one program in terms of priorities is to implement an enterprise resource planning system. Since it is the number one ranked program in this portfolio, it is of interest at the corporate level, and you and your team provide reports on its progress monthly. You can see that:

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Extensive training will be needed after the program is complete, and an infrastructure does not exist to support the ERP system

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Since earned value is being used, at this point you report the ERP system will not meet its cost and schedule goals

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Use of the ERP vendor has been underestimated, and a business case will be needed for increased funding

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Inadequate, up-front financial planning was done when the business case was approved

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