by David Matheson | May 8, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Big Growth Goals In the February 2018 edition of ValuePoint, I discussed opportunity cost in your innovation portfolio. Because of scarcity of resources, it’s rare that an organization can vigorously pursue all of the innovation opportunities it comes up with. But...
by David Matheson | Apr 20, 2018 | Practitioners Guide to Project Evaluation, Professional Development
Need help navigating trick discussions about market share? All you need is a good understanding of how market competition works and where market share may be up. The Rule of 3 and 4 is an empirical rule-of-thumb that helps people through the process of determining...
by David Matheson | Apr 20, 2018 | Practitioners Guide to Project Evaluation, Professional Development
How Big? Market Share, Price, and Margin Market share, price and margin can create a kind of swirl, a kind of circular thinking. So, you want to think about your strategy and define yourself and get clear about your value proposition. Think about the strategy...
by David Matheson | Feb 8, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
One of the biggest factors in valuation of an innovation portfolio is opportunity cost. Unless you have sufficient management bandwidth, technical capability, time, and money to execute every idea in your innovation portfolio, you will only be able to fully pursue...
by David Matheson | Dec 23, 2017 | Miscellaneous
It is with both sadness and joy that we announce that Somik Raha will be leaving SmartOrg at the end of 2017. Joy, because he is joining our colleagues at Ulu Ventures, a sister company that applies our shared Decision Analysis technologies to innovation through...