by David Matheson | Jun 11, 2019 | ValuePoint™
At the Front End of Innovation event in Boston last month, Alexa Dembek of DuPont and Neal Gutterson of Corteva Agriscience shared their perspectives on navigating the Merger of the Century between DuPont and Dow Chemical. The merged DowDuPont has split into three...
by David Matheson | Jun 10, 2019 | Innovation Management
“I had never felt so badly about creating a success,” Michael, the CTO told me. He was in charge of a large R&D organization and he had a very cool, slightly quirky technology. He asked for many proposals for how to exploit it. Every time the financials came in,...
by David Matheson | May 8, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
At a recent workshop, a group of 35 R&D and innovation executives in industries ranging from automotive to healthcare came together to benchmark improvement potential. Each selected a real example project from their portfolio and applied an estimation model based...
by David Matheson | Apr 16, 2019 | Resources
At a recent innovation conference, Henry Bryndza of DuPont reported on how they had improved the returns of their innovation across the portfolio by 2-3 times. But was this a fluke, a one-off result due to their particular circumstances? Or would applying the methods...
by David Matheson | Apr 4, 2019 | Event
SmartOrg presented on several topics at the Society of Decision Professionals’ DAAG 2019 conference in Denver. Representing SmartOrg at the conference were President & CEO David Matheson, Head of Solutions and Product Suhui Chen, and Mathematician-in-Residence...
