As businesses continue to finely hone capabilities for competing in the Best Practices Era, the portfolio-based project management concept will take hold. The emergence of the independent workforce, as mentioned at the beginning of the chapter, will certainly serve to fuel interest and refinement in the notion of managing work within a portfolio context.

Indeed, the inevitability of transitory workers, coupled with the other competitive realities outlined in the book, will persist in making portfolio-based project management a way of life within the business world.

Results-focused communications is the subject of the next chapter. It is there that we will examine the importance of conveying the right information in the right ways to enable success.

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