by David Matheson | Jan 15, 2025 | ValuePoint™
How do you make a great decision every time—one that not only stands up to analysis but also drives real organizational change? This question was at the heart of an experience I had early in my career while working with Sony Pictures during a time of profound shifts...
by David Matheson | Apr 9, 2024 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
[Updated 04-09-24] Breakthrough innovation takes an organization out of its familiar comfort zone into a realm of uncertainty. Unlike incremental innovations into existing product domains and markets where the behavior of technology and customers is well understood,...
by David Matheson | Jul 14, 2022 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
“They’ve been sandbagging me,” the president of a multi-billion-dollar company exclaimed when I showed her a summary of the upsides in the growth portfolio. After years of declining growth and spending more and more “fighting the fade” of revenue in the core...
by David Matheson | Nov 11, 2021 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
The meeting with the executive committee isn’t going to be easy—for yet another year, the company’s innovation efforts have yielded only lackluster growth. The head of the core business, which has been in a long, slow decline, will undoubtedly challenge you again: I...
by David Matheson | Jun 14, 2021 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
The panic sets in. Who can we blame? What excuses can we offer? How do we manage the surprise? It seems we aren’t going to hit our numbers. Next year we resolve to do better. We put more work into predicting the right number. We get more data. We get firmer...
