27
June
2020
Your Long-Range Plan is Invalid. Now What?
By David Matheson, SmartOrg The game has changed. Among the many things disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic is your organization’s long-range plan. Those carefully negotiated assumptions that informed your projections of growth and guided your innovation and R&D budgets have been exposed as the comforting fictions we always knew they were. Fundamentally, the future is
20
May
2020
The Impact of Covid-19 on Innovation
Following up on SmartOrg’s survey on the impact of Covid-19 on Innovation, I facilitated a series of small group discussions on how Covid-19 is disrupting innovation and what can be done about it. While it is an admittedly small and somewhat haphazard sample, it represents the perspective of innovation leaders from industries ranging from food to
08
April
2020
The COVID-19 innovation challenge: Keeping the golden goose alive
Author:
David Matheson
by David Matheson and Ralph Morales III We all know COVID-19 is disrupting everything, including innovation-driven growth. What should we as members of the innovation community be prepared for? What can we do to keep innovation alive or maybe even help it thrive in these surreal times? SmartOrg’s survey on the impact of COVID-19 on
31
December
2019
SmartOrg’s 2019 in Review
Author:
David Matheson
Goodbye 2019 and the phenomenal 2010sHello there!! Another amazing year has been recorded to the history books. We want to end this amazing year by thanking you for all the incredible conversations and interactions that inspire us to keep bringing you valuable project and portfolio insights. Because you’re made this year so fun for us, we
11
December
2019
Sharing Strategic Portfolio Management Experiences | ValuePoint Dec 2019
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by David Matheson and Ralph Morales III, SmartOrg At this invitation-only Community of Practice (CoP) for strategic portfolio management held in Boston this past October, executives from a broad spectrum of industries came together in an intimate, confidential setting to share experiences and knowledge in their portfolio management
13
November
2019
When You Can’t Recruit for Innovation, Redeploy | ValuePoint Nov 2019
Do you have more innovation projects than innovators to work on them? 5G, the Internet of Things, CRISPR: new technologies and business models are coming to disrupt your business and force you to innovate. If you’re scrambling to create R&D projects to deal with these disruptors, you need funding and innovation talent. Raising money to
09
October
2019
Mapping the Route to Awesome Innovation: the Role of Scouts | ValuePoint Oct 2019
By David Matheson, SmartOrg Congratulations, you got the job! Your company has realized it lacks breakthrough growth opportunities. After some idea generation and strategic analysis, they have selected several new territories that seem to be target rich. Maybe the territory is built around a market segment, like aging. Or perhaps around a technology, like augmented/virtual
11
September
2019
The Biggest Driver of Upside | ValuePoint Sept 2019
By David Matheson, SmartOrg We recently helped a major chemical company conduct its portfolio review for 128 growth projects. Using SmartOrg’s Portfolio Navigator web-based evaluation platform, they systematically looked at the uncertainties in their business cases. Many project leaders saw tremendous upside and developed ways to pursue it. But when I systematically looked across the
14
August
2019
Promising Growth | ValuePoint August 2019
By David Matheson, SmartOrg I was presenting the results of an in-depth portfolio review to the president of a major chemical company. “Will I meet my growth goals?” she asked. Every planning process in the company involved her setting a goal and the business units (BUs) responding with how they were going to meet them.
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