Download PDF By David Matheson, SmartOrg SmartOrg recently hosted a webinar with Temperince Morgan, Executive Director of the Florida Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, on making rigorous portfolio decisions in a mission-driven organization. The Nature Conservancy implemented a new discipline for managing its portfolios of conservation projects with SmartOrg’s help. As a result, The Conservancy’s

Download PDF By David Matheson, SmartOrg Innovation is an adventure, a journey into the uncertain future. For some of us, that’s an exciting prospect that energizes us to take on each new challenge. For others of us, it’s a terrifying ride with blind corners and sudden plunges in the spaces between solid milestones. But whichever

Download PDF By David Matheson, SmartOrg In evaluating projects within an innovation or new product development portfolio, we frequently look at a two-dimensional view of project value. For the first dimension, we look at the net present value (NPV) of the project based on achieving the median or "expected" in each of the project’s component

Download PDF By David Matheson, SmartOrg I’d like to share with you some insights from a recent webinar I moderated, “Failing Forward”, part of the Front End of Innovation webinar series produced by KNect365. My fellow panelists were Karen Tilstra, Ph.D., Innovation Architect at Florida Hospital Innovation Lab, and Soon Yu, formerly Global Innovation Officer

Download PDF Decision Quality for Everyday Significant Decisions: Lessons from a SDP Webinar By David Matheson, SmartOrg Recently, I moderated a webinar presented by the Society of Decision Professionals. The presenter, Carl Spetzler of SDG, titled his presentation, “Decision Quality for Everyday Significant Decisions–when Decision Professionals will not be Present.” The audience for this webinars

Download PDF Thinking Big A Lesson from SmartOrg’s Community of Practice By David Matheson, SmartOrg At this year’s SmartOrg Community of Practice (see note), the participants explored one of the most important questions in innovation and product development: what stops us from thinking big? Too many companies manage opportunities with home-run potential as safe base