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...
by David Matheson | Feb 10, 2021 | Innovation Management
DuPont Safety & Construction Case Study: How DuPont S&C Revitalized Growth SmartOrg helped DuPont Safety & Construction cut through the clutter in its innovation portfolio to uncover hidden value and unlock rapid growth. Watch this 90-second overview, and...
by David Matheson | Feb 3, 2021 | Innovation Management, Strategic Portfolio Management
Dialogue to Drive New Growth If resources were unlimited, Innovation (R&D and New Product Development) and Finance would never be in conflict: every idea would be fully funded and staffed. In a resource-constrained world, Innovation and Finance often work at...
