Corporate Portfolio Management Association
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In This Issue
Overwhelming Member Demand
Member Portal Beta Launches
Online Benchmarking Is Here (Almost)
Best Practices Briefings Wanted
Soliciting Articles from Experts
Some Current CPMA Members

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Overwhelming Member Demand
When a group of practitioners created the CPMA, we had no idea the response the CPMA would get.  To say we've been overwhelmed would be an understatement.  We have 125+ basic members now and continue to get 4 to 6 new members a week.  Most amazingly, this has been achieved with zero marketing.  And this means that most of this growth is attributable to you - our members - who have told others about the organization.  We've been helped as well by several mentions in the media and the fact that the CPMA's site is #1 in Google (as of today) under the term "Corporate Portfolio Management" out of over tens of millions of sites that are listed.  

This issue of the CPMA Newsletter highlights some of the interesting capabilities and offerings the CPMA has been working on to continue to add value for you.  We thank you for your patience, your ideas and your continued engagement and contributions.  We also wanted to wish you and your families the happiest of holidays and warmest wishes for a great 2008.
  

Member Portal Beta Launches
The Basic Member portal is now live in its 'beta' form.  (Beta means it is not final yet.  During the beta, we will be collecting feedback from our users.)

How do you get access to the Basic Member portal?
It is quite simple.  We are using a "karma policy".  This means that people who contribute to the portal get rewarded with access first.  So if you have templates, articles, frameworks, etc, let us know.  After a review and acceptance, you'll be given access.  These contributions are vital in making the CPMA community and the member portal more valuable to everyone.  At some point, all members will be granted access to the portal (after the beta).  We already have some interesting contributions to the portal including case studies, portfolio optimization techniques and useful vendor evaluation frameworks which we are evaluating for inclusion.  

If you have something you would like to contribute to the Basic Member Portal, please email us at portal@corporateportfoliomanagement.org.  

Online Benchmarking Is Here (Almost)
Given the time and cost of conducting our traditional in-person portfolio management benchmarking, we're now developing an online benchmarking tool.  With the current desire for all things portfolio management related, we found many organizations jump directly into trying to make portfolio management happen without even knowing where they are starting from and understanding their strengths, weaknesses and ultimate readiness.  Successfully enabling portfolio management requires this understanding.  The benchmarking survey aims to inventory your current practices and then compare and benchmark them against best-in-class portfolio management practices.  Ultimately, you're equipped with an understanding of the areas you should focus on as you aim to enable portfolio management.

If you are interested in having your organization benchmarked using the online portfolio management tool, email us at benchmark@corporateportfoliomanagement.org.   


Best Practices Briefings Wanted
We know you've developed interesting, thought provoking and useful ideas, frameworks, case studies and tools, and we want to hear from you so we can document these as part of a Best Practices Briefing.  If you are a practitioner or other thought leader on the topic of portfolio management and have something which you feel could be the subject of a Best Practices Briefing, email us at info@corporateportfoliomanagement.org and tell us about what you'd like to share.  For you, these Best Practices Briefings will be a great way to document your accomplishments and create further momentum for portfolio management within your organization.  For other CPMA members, these are very useful as educational tools.

Soliciting Articles from Experts
While we continue to be firm in our desire to ensure the CPMA remains practitioner-driven, we've met many outside thought-leaders over the last several months and have seen some very compelling content from them.  If you are a consultant, software vendor or academic with subject matter expertise related to Corporate Portfolio Management or any of its "children" (IT portfolio management, project portfolio management, etc), we welcome your article submissions.  If you have an article you'd like to submit, please email us at content@corporateportfoliomanagement.org.  We look forward to hearing from you and bringing your ideas to the CPMA's many members.

Some Current CPMA Members
Here is a partial list of some of the CPMA's members.  We are privileged to have such a large, diverse group of world-class organizations as part of our membership.  

• Unilever
• Novartis
• Credit Suisse
• Dell
• Florida Department of Health 
• American Express
• Microsoft
• Deutsche Telekom
• Wells Fargo
• Johnson & Johnson
• US Navy
• IBM
• Qualcomm
• Department of Defense
• United Airlines
• Applied Materials
• Danone
• Bridgestone
• EMC Corporation
• Marsh & McLennan
• Countrywide Financial
• Consumers Energy 
• FedEx
• Siemens
• BP (British Petroleum)
• Cargill
• Rio Tinto
• Lego
• Standard Insurance
• Transport Infrastructure Dev Corp of Australia
• Goldman Sachs JBWere
• Vodafone Egypt
• Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN) of Africa 
• La Societe de Transport de Montreal
• Oregon Department of Human Services
• Dakota County, Minnesota
• Northwestel Inc
• PJM Interconnection LLC
• ANZ
• Raffinerie Tirlemontoise
• GMX
• RHI AG
• CBC/Radio-Canada
• Sanlam Group, South Africa