Your company cannot without growth. And to make this growth possible you need various types of resources of which the human resources are the most important. They determine the way in which the other types of resources like systems and infrastructure are managed. Together they constitute this unique building that is your own company and not the one of the competition.

When preparing for this growth, you are offered a myriad number of solutions, methods, intermediary products, advices, etc, to support the process. In the mean time the current operation needs to continue, clients are (if you are lucky) waiting.

All those resources, you can dedicate as means, have their own characteristics. Through a growing number of different solutions, the number of decision you could take increase at the same time. Different managers in different areas in your company will have their own preferences for these kinds of solutions.

The innovation manager wants new products and preferably tomorrow if not now. The sales manager wants flexibility because the client will change its preference overnight. The operations manager is concerned with stability, the technological department wants to experience a new solution with leading edge technology, Administration is concerned about future maintenance and fulfilment requires a fluent process. The service management wants the least possible problems.

How do you manage? How do you make sure you can manage all these choices efficiently?

If you hire a consultant for this problem, the first step they will take is an analysis of precedents. Did others deal with this problem before? The answer is: yes. Investment managers did.