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#410: Managing What Matters: Turning Project Decisions into Portfolio Impact in R&D and Medical
Monday June 15, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
202AB
Component Type: Workshop
Level: Intermediate
CE: ACPE 1.25 Application UAN: 0286-0000-26-517-L04-P; CME 1.25; PDU 1.25 PMI 216647VJP8; RN 1.25

What if every investment were assessed for impact - before committing resources? As portfolio decisions in R&D and Medical Affairs are becoming increasingly complex, leadership teams often struggle to link individual projects to overall portfolio performance. This makes it difficult to clearly articulate portfolio potential, compare alternative portfolio configurations, or understand the portfolio-level impact of adding, re-prioritizing, or stopping initiatives. This interactive workshop explores whether and how an impact-driven portfolio approach, using the efficient frontier as a practical example, can help bridge this gap and support more effective management decision-making. Through hands-on exercises and facilitated discussion, participants will work with realistic portfolio scenarios to visualize portfolio performance and examine how individual initiatives contribute to overall portfolio value. Participants will test different portfolio scenarios, discuss trade-offs, and explore how project-level decisions shift portfolio-level performance. Rather than optimizing projects in isolation, the workshop focuses on using the efficient frontier to enable management-ready conversations that explicitly connect project choices to portfolio impact, risk, and strategic alignment. The workshop also examines the evolving role of project and portfolio managers as strategic impact managers, supporting leadership teams by creating portfolio transparency, enabling informed trade-offs, and driving value realization across R&D and Medical portfolios. The session is designed for Medical and R&D leaders seeking to strengthen strategic decision-making, improve transparency, and elevate portfolio management to impact stewardship.

Learning Objectives

Explain how the efficient frontier clarifies portfolio performance and supports leadership discussions portfolio-level impact and value; Analyze how individual initiatives change portfolio performance by using the efficient frontier to simulate adding, re-prioritizing, or stopping projects and assessing each decision by its portfolio-level effect; Discuss ways portfolio managers are evolving into strategic impact leaders.

Chair

Robin Boss, MS

Speaker

Panelist
Jill Orosz


Speakers
avatar for Robin Boss

Robin Boss

VP, Business Transformation, Campana & Schott, United States
Robin Boss is Vice President of Business Transformation Consulting at Campana & Schott, where he leads a U.S. team working with Life Sciences organizations on large-scale pharma transformation programs. His focus is on portfolio and project management as a core lever to implement... Read More →
avatar for Jill Orosz

Jill Orosz

Vice President, TKI Franchise Head, Bayer, United States
Monday June 15, 2026 11:00am - 12:15pm EDT
202AB The Pennsylvania Convention Center 1101 Arch Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 USA
  06: ProfDevelop-Program-PortfolioMgmt, Workshop
  • Audience Intermediate
  • Level Intermediate
  • format csv
  • Credit Type ACPE, CME, PMI, RN
  • Interest Area Project Management & Strategic Planning
  • Tags Workshop

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