Recalculating: Closing the Portfolio Adaptability Gap
65% of leaders believe they adapt fast, yet 21% take over a month to reallocate resources. Discover why slow execution leaves up to $260M on the table.
65% of portfolio leaders believe they adapt quickly when priorities shift.
Yet 21% of them take more than a month to actually reallocate resources once that shift happens.
Tempo's 2026 State of SPM report surveyed 667 portfolio and planning leaders across 43 countries. Organizations living in that gap between "we're agile" and "it took us five weeks" are leaving up to $260M in annual value on the table.
The Illusion of Agility
Have you sat in the room when a budget cut forces a portfolio to reprioritize overnight? The slide always moves fast. The people behind it rarely do.
A GPS that took a month to recalculate after you missed the exit wouldn't feel adaptive, no matter how calm the voice sounded saying "recalculating." Confidence in the interface isn't the same thing as speed underneath it.
Most PMOs are running the calm voice without the actual recalculation.
The Reallocation Question: How long would it really take your organization to reallocate people against a real priority shift—not the plan, the people?