The Need for Change – Getting Started with Strategic Portfolio Management

When organizations face sudden change — whether from market shift, workforce disruption, or mounting pressure to deliver faster — recognizing the need to do something different is only the first step. The real challenge is turning that realization into action. Strategic Portfolio Management helps organizations align strategy with execution, establish the right governance, and make funding and prioritization decisions that support real outcomes.

In this episode of Amplify Agile, our host Bret Piontek, Partner Solutions Consultant at Apptio, an IBM Company, sits down with Ed Spriggs, Managing Partner at Logapps, to explore how organizations can move from recognizing the need for change to actually taking the steps to make that change real.

Together they discuss:

• The strategy-execution gap — why strategy at the top doesn’t always translate across departments, and how leaders can address silos and visibility challenges
• Moving toward positive change — establishing an SPM office, earning executive and frontline buy-in, and prioritizing technology that enables doing more with less
• Governance that creates flow — building guardrails instead of gates, decentralizing decisions for speed, and balancing quality with momentum
• Funding and prioritization — using horizon planning to set investment direction while maintaining flexibility to respond to immediate needs