# Plan

Conductor ensures you're doing the right work, at the right time, with the right people. Establish your roadmap of portfolios, programs, projects, and strategic objectives in one connected view.

## Low-impact projects get funded while high-value ones starve

**3.5%** — of your EBITDA target is lost before work begins

Source: Project Management Institute

- **Ideas are scattered** — Teams submit ideas in emails, forms, spreadsheets. No standard criteria for evaluation. Flashy ideas get prioritized over others because they came with a pretty presentaton rather than more value.
- **Portfolio prioritization takes months** — Rebalancing the portfolio means rebuilding spreadsheets. Changing one assumption means fixing a dozen broken calculations. Decisions that should take days take months.
- **Business cases don't add up** — Finance builds one model. Ops builds another. Executives sees a third version. When the board asks how you'll prove the ROI, you stuggle to answer.
- **PMO teams are stuck in spreadsheets** — Forms pull into one system. Financial models live in another. Approvals happen over email. PMO teams spend 40% of their time moving data between tools instead of driving the program.

## Plan the *right work*, at the *right time*, with the *right people*

### 01 Strategic Portfolio Planning

- All programs in a single space mapped to strategic objectives
- Cascade goals from strategy through to programs and projects
- Live portfolio visibility and status rolling up in real time

### 02 Idea Management

- Idea forms with consistent scoring tied to strategic priorities
- Harmony AI flags duplicates and auto-maps ideas to portfolios
- Low-impact ideas rejected early; high-impact ideas move forward

### 03 Business Case Management

- Harmony AI helps you draft the business case using best practices
- Stage-gate workflows with role-based approvers and audit trail
- Business cases connected through execution and realization phases

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