Perfecting the recipe for innovation

At the recent Growth, Innovation and Leadership conference, I led a workshop in which approximately 40 executives built on HP’s best practice guidebook for breakthrough innovation to apply, extend, and perfect it. The

Probability Elicitation and Calibration in a Research & Development Portfolio: A 13-year case study

Dr. Jay Anderson of Eli Lilly shares results from a 13-year case study of using probabilities to quantify uncertainty in R&D projects, in a webinar moderated by SmartOrg CEO David Matheson and hosted by the Society of Decision Professionals. In particular, Dr. Anderson

How do mature organizations use PPM?

I was pleased to be invited to join Ian Strain’s panel discussion at the SAP PPM conference in Chicago last week. Ian posed a provocative question about the maturity of organizations as pertains to utilization of PPM. Based on a decade or more with clients in a variety of industries,

What is the impact of innovation spending on creating shareholder value?

You hear a lot about innovation these days. But how often do you hear about the impact of innovation spending on creating shareholder value?  SmartOrg client Evjatar Cohen, VP of Global Portfolio Management at Catalent Pharma Solutions contrasted the Current and Future State of systems and processes that drive value

David Leonhardi of Boeing on soft skills

SmartOrg’s long time customer, David Leonhardi of Boeing, wrote this interesting article on integrating soft (people) skills with hard (analytical) skills. We’ve worked diligently to make Portfolio Navigator a tool to enhance both the rigor of analysis with framework to help people have real discussion about where

Tech-Clarity Introduces “Advanced PPM”

Tech-Clarity, Inc., an independent research and consulting firm recently published a great white paper introducing “Advanced PPM” (the next level of portfolio decision making).  Advanced PPM adds economic value optimization to project/portfolio management.
The white paper can be accessed by clicking here.
SmartOrg’s PPM Optimization

What the Devil is a Portfolio, Anyway? – November 2011 ValuePoint

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By Don Creswell, SmartOrg
Portfolio. The term means different things to different people. Mention portfolio management and some think of resource management. Others think of collections of projects to be compared on various value dimensions; or managed

Assessing the state of innovation published in PDMA visions magazine

My article, Assessing the State of Innovation, developed from the Frost & Sullivan conference on New Product Development, was selected by PDMA visions magazine and published! You can also see it on our website, here.

Include Business Design in Innovation

In 2010, one of the best innovations in messaging and collaboration, Google Wave, was shuttered by Google. Google concluded that the product did not have the adoption rates they were looking for, and decided to give the code away to the open source community. It was a bad outcome for