by David Matheson | Dec 22, 2014 | Strategic Portfolio Management
Once upon a September, I had the opportunity to lead the Strategic Decision and Risk Management (SDRM) Strategic Portfolio Management Course at Stanford University. It was a great opportunity to connect with business leaders in a wide range of industries to discuss...
by David Matheson | Mar 6, 2014 | Innovation Management
Thanks to the advent of Big Data, companies are collecting more facts than ever before — about their industry, clients, future clients, the economy, real estate, the state of their organizations — physically and fiscally. Business decision makers can no longer plead...
by David Matheson | Dec 9, 2013 | Strategy
The strategic choice canvas is yet again another great post from Ricardo dos Santos. Ricardo was a thought leader in my session on ‘Failing Forward’ at the IIR’s Back End of Innovation 2013 conference. We at SmartOrg have used for decades similar canvas format in...
by David Matheson | Nov 20, 2013 | Innovation Management
Dennis Hong Dr. Dennis Hong of RoMeLa presented a very entertaining keynote at BEI13. I had an opportunity to chat with him following his talk and asked a few questions about his inspirations and how he designs and builds his robots. Here is a short summary of our...
by David Matheson | Sep 10, 2013 | Principles of Strategic Portfolio Management, Strategic Portfolio Management
The term “portfolio management” is a really confusing term. There are all kinds of portfolios: financial portfolios, R&D portfolios, NPD portfolios, innovation portfolios, insurance portfolios, and on and on. And then there are “strategic portfolios” —...
