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

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Join us at These Upcoming Events!

Master Class: How to Fail Fastest within the ‘Messy Middle’ of the Innovation Process

Presenters
June 25, 2025
9:00-10:00AM PT

In collaboration with InnoLead, SmartOrg’s David Matheson and Doug Williams will lead a Master Class on navigating the messy middle of innovation — where uncertainty, blind spots, and misalignment among key stakeholders lead to poor and costly decisions.

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IMPACT 2025

Premium Sponsor
October 20 – 22, 2025
Boston, MA

We are proud to be sponsoring IMPACT for the 5th consecutive year! Details to follow.

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Doug Williams at SmartOrg's "Fail Fastest" workshop at the IRI 2025 Summit in Chicago.

IRI 2025 Fail Fastest Workshops

Real-World Innovation Challenges Explored at IRI's 2025 Summit At the 2025 Innovators Summit hosted by the Innovation Research Interchange (IRI), SmartOrg’s “Fail Fastest” workshop brought together a standing-room-only crowd to tackle one of the most persistent...
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