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Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012 pp 815–822Cite as

Risk and Uncertainty in Project Portfolio Management

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In the new era, project portfolio management (PPM) has become popular in the world, and is being applied in many different kinds of enterprises. More and more executives gradually find that it is not enough to do the projects right. How to select and to do the right projects attracts more attention. It is very important to identify and manage the risks and uncertainties of a portfolio. In this paper, we review the history of PPM, and risk management in PPM, and then we propose a portfolio risk and uncertainty management process.

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  1. College of Economic and Management Nanjing Institute of Industry Technology, Nanjing, China

    Na Guo

  2. Fong Yun-wah, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong

    Shiwang Yu

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Guo, N., Yu, S. (2013). Risk and Uncertainty in Project Portfolio Management. In: Zhong, Z. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Engineering and Applications (IEA) 2012. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 218. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4847-0_100

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