Aligning Innovation
and Finance

To Drive Profitable Growth

Software and services for innovation
and portfolio management

Innovation and Portfolio Solutions

Make uncertainty your friend. SmartOrg’s methods for evaluating opportunities allows you to align on where and how much to invest and how to drive the upside. Our collaborative analytical software platform improves your business processes in innovation and portfolio management. Our consulting services support your efforts to deploy, educate and manage change. Whether your growth challenge is to explore an exciting new area and develop credible investment grade proposals, or to balance investments across competing areas and interest, we can help you build your capability.

Up your growth game

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Formulate

Create hypotheses and experiments that accelerate the evidence of value. 

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Evaluate

Find the most significant factors that drive opportunity value and find the hidden upside. 

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Focus

Put attention on the efforts that matter most. Eliminate innovation waste and portfolio clutter.

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Balance

Resolve conflicts between short and long term investments or among different areas. 

What Is Your Growth Challenge?

Innovation Navigator® helps you grow your true innovation garden: our mash-up of lean startup and real options help you Invest based on financial impact, guide your stakeholders through innovation uncertainties, and Focus on the tests that propel your efforts forward.

Innovation

Are you working to create or demonstrate new opportunity?  Innovation Navigator combines Real Options analysis and Lean Startup methods to help you:

  • Win over stakeholders
  • Demonstrate financial credibility
  • Document diverse perspectives
  • Accelerate investment approval
Strategic Portfolio Management

Portfolio

Are you working to get more for less or to increase your ability to meet growth goals?  Portfolio Navigator® reveals hidden opportunities to drive breakthrough growth.

  • Cut through the clutter
  • Tame uncertainty
  • Drive the upside
  • Overcome conflict

Increase your return on growth investments by 30% or more

2024 Events

Innovation Product Demo

Wed., Oct. 30th, 9AM PT / 12PM ET

Struggling to de-risk early-stage innovation projects? Stakeholder alignment slowing you down? Missing data to secure more investment? Innovation Navigator® (iNav) software addresses challenges like:

-Identifying critical issues influencing project success
-Building business cases that embrace uncertainty and drive decisions
-Prioritizing experiments that de-risk projects and unlock future funding

Secure your spot! Register today:

Impact 2024

We’re excited to be a Sponsor of InnoLead‘s Impact conference this October. It’s the biggest gathering of the year for corporate innovators, R&D leaders, and change-makers.

Turning ideas into success stories isn’t easy—especially when skeptical stakeholders are involved. David Matheson and Doug Williams of SmartOrg are looking forward to facilitating SmartOrg’s “No Derisk, No Reward” workshop during InnoLead’s Impact conference this month.

 Join us on Wednesday, October 23rd at 4PM Eastern for a chocolate-fueled session where you’ll dive deep into Focusing on issues related to your innovations projects to win over skeptical stakeholders; adopting methods to drive upside potential and resolve downside risk; and prioritizing across projects within the innovation portfolio to put the best proposals and experiments forward.

Latest Growth Insights

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Frost & Sullivan Innovation Workshop and Tour in Chicago

What You Missed at Our Innovation Workshop – and How You Can Get the Same Benefits  At the recent Frost & Sullivan Innovation Workshop and Tour in Chicago, SmartOrg hosted a powerful, interactive workshop that tackled one of the biggest challenges facing...