Portfolio management consulting HamburgFewer projects at once, more projects delivered.
Our portfolio management consulting in Hamburg turns many parallel initiatives into a clear project portfolio. Together with your leadership team we decide which projects take priority, which wait and which you consciously stop. Plus a simple rhythm to realign the portfolio every quarter – linked to your strategy and your OKRs.
Our portfolio management services
From a first overview to a portfolio that steers itself.
Inventory
All initiatives at a glance.
- List of all running and planned projects
- Effort, value and committed capacity
- Dependencies and bottlenecks
- Check against the strategy
Result: An honest picture of where your people and budget are today.
Prioritisation workshop
Leadership decides.
- Derive criteria from your strategy
- Rate and rank projects together
- Clear decisions: continue, postpone, stop
- Focus capacity where it has the most impact
Result: A prioritised portfolio the whole leadership team stands behind.
Portfolio board
Decide instead of administer.
- A body with a clear mandate and decision rights
- Simple rules for new project ideas
- Consistent status with few metrics
- Facilitation of the first meetings
Result: New initiatives are checked before they tie up capacity.
Quarterly rhythm with OKRs
The portfolio stays current.
- Portfolio review every quarter
- Link to company OKRs
- Closing and learning from finished projects
- Coaching your portfolio owners
Result: A portfolio that evolves with your strategy.
How we work
Portfolio management is above all a leadership task. That is why we work directly with your leadership team.
Strategy first
The criteria for prioritisation come from your strategy, not from a textbook.
Stopping is a success
Every stopped project frees room for the important ones. We make these decisions easy and fair.
Simple beats perfect
A clear list and a fixed rhythm do more than a complicated tool.
Linked to OKRs
Your priorities become goals teams work on every quarter.
When portfolio management consulting pays off
- Far more projects are running than your organisation can handle.
- Key initiatives stall because capacity is missing.
- The strategy is new, but the project list is still the old one.
- Functions compete for the same people and budget.
- You are introducing OKRs and want to link projects and goals.
Experience from more than 1.000 workshops
Strategy, priorities and OKRs for leadership teams in mid-sized companies and corporations.
Selected clients
If individual projects need support: see our project management consulting.
Your portfolio management consultants in Hamburg
Oliver Pasdzior brings experience from project management, strategy and change, Joern Steinz from around 60 OKR engagements and more than 1.000 facilitated workshops. Together we help leadership teams focus on what matters.
Joern Steinz (MBA)
Founder, strategy, innovation and OKRs
Has facilitated more than 1.000 workshops since 2014 and has supported companies with OKRs since 2019. Formerly a consultant at Accenture and in corporate development at XING and freenet Group, MBA from EADA Business School Barcelona. He helps leadership teams turn many options into a few clear priorities.
Oliver Pasdzior
Strategy, leadership and transformation
An experienced project manager who knows change above all from its human side: ownership, collaboration and trust decide whether decisions hold. He guides leadership teams through difficult discussions to a shared view, clear decisions and real accountability.
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Management consulting Hamburg →Questions about portfolio management
What is portfolio management?
Project portfolio management means looking at all of a company’s projects and initiatives together and deciding which take priority. That way capacity and budget flow into the projects that contribute most to the strategy.
Do we need special software?
No. To start, a well-maintained list and a fixed rhythm are enough. Whether a tool is worth it later, you decide once the approach works.
How long does it take?
A first prioritisation is possible within a few weeks: inventory, a workshop with the leadership team and the first decisions. On request we support the quarterly rhythm for one or two quarters.
What does portfolio management have to do with OKRs?
OKRs describe what you want to achieve, the portfolio with which projects. Together they make sure goals and work fit.
Do you only work in Hamburg?
We are based at Georgplatz in Hamburg and work across Europe, on site or online, in English or German.
Let’s bring focus to your project portfolio
Tell us where you stand and what you want to achieve. In a first call we clarify the best way in – no obligation, on equal terms.
Consultants Hamburg
Georgplatz 1, 20099 Hamburg, two minutes from Hamburg Central Station
Working across Europe, including Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Hanover, Munich, Stuttgart and Vienna