Smart Organizations Perform Better

Identifying linkages between the use of best practices and overall measures of corporate performance is difficult. Studies of several hundred companies, however, show that underlying cultural and organizational patterns lead to effective implementation of many best practices, which the authors call the “principles” of a smart organization. These patterns, which

Assessing the State of Innovation: How Does Your Company Rate? (Webcast Replay)

Missed the original presentation?  Here’s the replay for your convenience.

During engagements with Fortune 100 companies and at several executive conferences, Dr. Matheson has identified concerns among innovation leaders over the current state of innovation, including disappointment with popular approaches to ideation and management of the innovation process. He will explore

Highlights from “Reinventing Portfolio Management” Lab at PDMA 2011

Some 30 executives participated in “Reinventing Portfolio Management”, a portfolio lab led by SmartOrg at September’s PDMA 2011 Global Conference.  Highlights of the lab include “insights and pains” in managing innovation plus insights to help companies optimize the economic value created by innovative products and processes.

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

The Smart Organization: Creating Value Through Strategic R&D (Book)

To order “The Smart Organization” go to Amazon.com.
The Smart Organization: Creating Value Through Strategic R&D by David Matheson and James E. Matheson, Harvard Business School Press
Why do

Perfecting the Recipe for Breakthrough Innovation

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Perfecting the Recipe for Breakthrough Innovation
David Matheson
President and CEO
In partnership with Frost & Sullivan

At Frost & Sullivan’s 2011 Growth, Innovation and Leadership conference, 40 executives from a variety of

Effective Input Metrics

Learn what Catalent has put in place to better manage their portfolio.  They have developed an effective way of using metrics that will help assess the innovation process.  It will also address the relationship between innovation spending and shareholder value.  Click here for

Value-Based Decision Analysis (Webinar Replay)

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How to drive innovation — a best practice guidebook on HP

HP needed and continues to need a rigorous process for developing, evaluating, and launching new businesses based on strategic and economic value.
Download the PDF to learn how they evaluated more than 30 new businesses using a strategic and economic value analysis

Decision Analysis Society names paper co-written by Jim Matheson as best in 2009

James Matheson has received notification that a paper he co-authored was selected as the best Decision Analysis publication in 2009 by the Decision Analysis Society!
JOURNAL OF MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS
Normative Decision Making with Multiattribute Performance Targets
ALI ABBAS (University of Illinois) and JAMES MATHESON (Stanford University)

Glimpses of the Future – August 2011 ValuePoint

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Glimpses of the Future of the Medical Devices Industry
by David Matheson, President and CEO, SmartOrg
Imagine picking up the Wall Street Journal and reading one of these headlines:
Medtronic moves its headquarters Minneapolis to Beijing
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Success

Glimpses of the future of the medical device industry

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Imagine picking up the Wall Street Journal and reading one of these headlines:

Medtronic moves its headquarters Minneapolis to Beijing, or
Success of in-home treatment causes 20% of hospitals to shut down due to lack of patients
Each of these headlines captures, in a dramatic way, one possible resolution of

Assessing the State of Innovation (White Paper)

This white paper was also featured in the October 2011 issue of Visions magazine published by the PDMA.  Click here for the PDF of the Visions article or go to PDMA.org for membership information.
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Advanced PPM (white paper)

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Issue in Focus:  Optimizing Product Portfolios with Advanced PPM
Applying Value Optimization to Portfolio Decision Making
Table of Contents
Introducing the Issue 3
The Basics of Product Portfolio Management 4
The Next Level of Portfolio Decision Making 5
Realizing Optimal Portfolio Value 7
Conclusion 9
Recommendations 10
About the Author 10
Introducing the Issue
Companies are gaining significant business

SmartOrg Tools Create High Portfolio Value for Inspire Pharmaceuticals (Case Study)

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Overview
Inspire is a biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering, developing and commercializing new treatments for diseases in the ophthalmic and respiratory/allergy areas. Two of the company’s commercial products, Restasis® and Elestat®, are co-promoted under agreements with Allergan,

Forecasting under Uncertainty Using Portfolio Navigator® (White Paper)

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Let’s start with an emphatic statement: there are no facts about the future, therefore you cannot forecast with accuracy. The longer the planning horizon the less precise your forecast will be. Hit your numbers and you are lucky.

Restructuring Resources to Improve Returns (Case Study)

Restructuring Resources to Improve Returns – Case Study
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Situation
Hewlett-Packard’s Product Processes Organization (PPO) is a diverse central service group that includes strategic consulting, engineering and testing services, and environmental and compliance programs. The organization needed to make decisions about how to manage

Creating Profitable Opportunities in a Commodity Business (Case Study)

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Challenges
Executives of this Fortune 100 company faced a challenge: drive growth and increase margins in a fiercely competitive commodity business. Should their main emphasis be on reducing costs or growing through innovation?
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) strongly supported growth

Focus on Value Improves Returns by 100% (Case Study)

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A major technology-based packaging company led its industry for years. The company pioneered “wine in a box,” replaced heavy steel containers used to ship soda fountain syrups with light-weight “bag in box” technology, and introduced many other innovations. But,

HP Turbo-Charges New Business Creation (Case Study)

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Overview
HP is a world leader in innovation. The success of their merger with Compaq created an opportunity to develop entirely new areas of the business. Executives recognized that this would require exploring radically new ideas and managing the tremendous uncertainty surrounding

Creating a High Portfolio Value: A Six-Step Program (Brochure)

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Value-Based Portfolio Management concentrates attention on the critical factors that drive value and on how risk and uncertainty affect these values. Portfolio Navigator™, a web-based software system, makes this information readily available to help decision-makers determine:
• The best projects

Navigating the Perilous Waters of Product Innovation (Webinar Replay)

Improving your succss rate by even a few percentage points can mean millions of dollars to you bottom line.  Don Creswell shows how via a case study around selecting an innovation product idea.
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Creating High Portfolio Value for Inspire Pharmaceuticals (Case Study)

As Inspire Pharmaceuticals grew and matured, management struggled to make good portfolio and pipeline decisions given the high degree of uncertainty about markets, licensing, and other business opportunities. Dr. Ward Peterson describes how Inspire used SmartOrg processes and tools to improve the quality and speed of decision-making and to also

The Limits of Scoring Rules (White Paper)

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Limitations of Scoring Rules
I. Uses of this article
     A. Whitepaper
     B. Publish in PDMA Visions magazine
     C. Publish in RTM
II. Introduction
     A. Scoring rules are a very powerful tool and many companies use them in to support

Maximizing Product Development Value — Realizing Value from New Products and Portfolios (White Paper)

White Paper by Jim Brown, President of Tech-Clarity Inc.
If you are arriving here through the May 2011 ValuePoint, please accept our apologies.  Jim Brown’s NEW white paper will be available shortly.  To be sure to get a copy, send a request to info@smartorg.com and it will be sent to

Decision Analysis for the Professional (Book)

by John Celona and Peter McNamee NEW FOURTH EDITION.
Decision Analysis has, for decades, been the  most powerful method available for making decisions under conditions of  uncertainty, e.g., new business strategies and new product launches. For

Frost & Sullivan MindXchange: Global Innovations in New Product Development (Conference)

SmartOrg® interactive sessions and panel discussions involved senior product development, innovation and marketing executives in spirited discussions around subjects crucial to optimizing NPD value. Participants exchanged views on dealing effectively with resource constraints, uncertainty and risk, and coping with the ever-changing landscape as the economy and disruptive technologies. 
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