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In a rapidly evolving economic world, projects become tools to support organization goals. Project portfolio is set of all projects that are implemented in the organisation at a time. Possible projects are characterized by sets of inputs and outputs, where inputs are resources for project realisation and outputs measure multiple goals of the organisation. The data envelopment analysis (DEA) is an appropriate approach to select efficient projects. The organisation has its total resources in limited quantities. Designing a portfolio of efficient projects not exceeding the limited resources does not always lead to the most efficient portfolio. De Novo optimisation is an approach for designing optimal systems by reshaping the feasible set. The paper proposes a new approach for project portfolio designing based on a systemic combination of DEA model and De Novo optimisation approach. A total available budget is a restriction on project portfolio. The proposed concept provides designing of optimal project portfolio with the minimal budget. Performance measures of the designed project portfolio are the efficiency of the portfolio and the effectiveness of outputs. Possible extensions of the concept are formulated and discussed.
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The project is supported by the Grant No. P402/12/G097 of the Czech Science Foundation and by Grant No. IGA F4/57/2017, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, University of Economics, Prague.
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Fiala, P. Project portfolio designing using data envelopment analysis and De Novo optimisation. Cent Eur J Oper Res 26, 847–859 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10100-018-0571-6
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