by David Matheson | Jun 24, 2019 | Event
The “Merger of the Century” saw Dow Chemical and DuPont combine into a behemoth called DowDuPont, and then quickly divide itself back into three publicly-traded spinoffs: DuPont (specialty materials), Corteva Agriscience (seeds and crop protection), and Dow (materials...
by David Matheson | Jun 18, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio 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 | 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 Stuart Creque | May 28, 2019 | Innovation Management
What if there is a way to govern innovation by combining these methods using a design-led approach? In the end, each method enables faster, cheaper and replicable-at-scale processes. How can Design help us be better and more efficient? How can Design and Lean Startup...
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...
by David Matheson | Mar 5, 2019 | Strategy, ValuePoint™
At first blush, you’d think that Decision Analysts have a lot to contribute to innovation. Innovators face tremendous uncertainty; Decision Analysts are experts at making decisions under uncertain circumstances. However, Decision Analysts and Innovators look at the...
by Stuart Creque | Feb 12, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio Management
Over our 20-year history, SmartOrg has helped numerous organizations increase the value of their innovation and new product portfolios, sometimes several-fold. Here are ten tips we can share for increasing your portfolio value. Understand the value of good portfolio...
