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 SmartOrg | Mar 16, 2021 | Event, Innovation Management
Disruptor Studio: Duolingo for Innovators Duolingo for Innovators with Ralph Morales III Finance is the lingua franca of business. Often disruptors talk about the impact, the change, the awesome future state. Yet financial stakeholders hear: “Blah, blah….blah, blah,...
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 SmartOrg | Feb 10, 2021 | Innovation Management
Opportunity Cost Cost of opportunity = the resources required to pursue a selected opportunity. Opportunity cost = the foregone value of the opportunities you did not select. When innovation projects are funded, they are still often neglected in favor of other...
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...
by David Matheson | Dec 9, 2020 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Big Growth Goals By the third day of SmartOrg’s annual Community of Practice for executives in Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), one of the participants had an epiphany: “I used to think that SPM was just project roll-ups for reporting and make some incremental...
by David Matheson | Nov 12, 2020 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
The Paradox Innovation is important. The problem is it isn’t very effective. At a recent event, my colleague, Ralph Morales III, polled the audience on the importance and effectiveness of innovation, and a paradox emerged: innovation is important but ineffective. ...
by David Matheson | Oct 6, 2020 | Practitioners Guide to Project Evaluation, Professional Development
How Big? Share and Penetration Market share and penetration represent two different aspects of how innovation changes the world. Penetration represents how a new technology enters the world and its acceptance into the world. Market share represents how well you...
by David Matheson | Oct 4, 2020 | Practitioners Guide to Project Evaluation, Professional Development
How Big – Accuracy vs....
