by David Matheson | Dec 11, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
The cost of an opportunity is, of course, the sum of the resources required to pursue a selected opportunity. Usually it is straightforward to add up this cost, although for innovation opportunities, uncertainties may make some part of the cost unforeseeable. However,...
by David Matheson | Nov 12, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management
The Question of Efficiency This article addresses the last of the four critical questions for strategic portfolio decisions (see below), efficiency. The prior three questions — sufficiency, significance and renewal — are fundamentally questions of effectiveness, which...
by David Matheson | Oct 17, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
August’s ValuePoint introduced the Four Critical Questions for Decision-making in Strategic Portfolio Management (see below), and September’s edition examined the Sufficiency and Significance questions. In this edition, we’ll look at Renewal. All businesses die. Every...
by David Matheson | Sep 12, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Sufficiency An earlier ValuePoint introduced the Four Critical Questions for Decision-making in Strategic Portfolio Management (see sidebar). In this edition, we’ll look at two questions about Sufficiency and Significance. The Sufficiency question asks, “Do we have...
by David Matheson | Aug 17, 2018 | Innovation Management
How Difficult? How Big? Provides a model structure to project evaluation. David...