Thanks for your feedback and comment, Brem. Assuming that modules 1, 2, and 3 in your example are products, they would form a product portfolio and benefit from having an overarching portfolio strategy as well as individual product strategies in my mind. Hope this helps!

Question: If a SaaS company has different “modules” for sale, but they are heavily reliant on other modules to function, I assume this doesn’t meet the definition of a portfolio, right? Or does the definition not matter as much, so long as it (portfolio approach) is achieving coherence across the modules?

* E.g. Module 1 is required for Module 2 or 3 to work. Could buy Module 1 and it functions standalone, but Modules 2 and 3 don’t work standalone. (Very different from the MS Office example given)

* However if the Modules are quite different personas and value propositions, it feels like they need their own strategy. But could benefit from a “portfolio” strategy to maintain coherence.

Thanks!