by David Matheson | Feb 5, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
In the beloved classic children’s book Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag, an old man and an old woman decide to get a cat to be their companion. The Old Man sets out to find a pretty cat, and he comes across a valley full of… “…hundreds of cats,...
by Stuart Creque | Jan 16, 2019 | Event
webinar replay (January 29, 2019) Henry Bryndza joined SmartOrg for a web seminar about his experience at DuPont Safety & Construction. Henry is a Global Technology Director at DuPont Science & Innovation. The Merger of The Century Last year, DuPont merged...
by David Matheson | Jan 8, 2019 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
In or Out? Most portfolio evaluations I get involved in take a close look at innovation. Often there is a special innovation group responsible for the new, the wild, and the odd. The group names vary: common ones are “Ventures” or “Innovation” or “Central R&D.”...
by David Matheson | Dec 11, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
The cost of an opportunity is, of course, the sum of the resources required to pursue a selected opportunity. Usually it is straightforward to add up this cost, although for innovation opportunities, uncertainties may make some part of the cost unforeseeable. However,...
by David Matheson | Nov 12, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management
The Question of Efficiency This article addresses the last of the four critical questions for strategic portfolio decisions (see below), efficiency. The prior three questions — sufficiency, significance and renewal — are fundamentally questions of effectiveness, which...
by David Matheson | Oct 17, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
August’s ValuePoint introduced the Four Critical Questions for Decision-making in Strategic Portfolio Management (see below), and September’s edition examined the Sufficiency and Significance questions. In this edition, we’ll look at Renewal. All businesses die. Every...
by David Matheson | Sep 12, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Sufficiency An earlier ValuePoint introduced the Four Critical Questions for Decision-making in Strategic Portfolio Management (see sidebar). In this edition, we’ll look at two questions about Sufficiency and Significance. The Sufficiency question asks, “Do we have...
by David Matheson | Aug 17, 2018 | Innovation Management
How Difficult? How Big? Provides a model structure to project...
by David Matheson | Aug 8, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Strategic portfolio management can give your company leverage to meet its growth goals and renew its products and services to avoid obsolescence and commoditization. The process doesn’t have to be complex and bogged down in details. There are simple,...
by David Matheson | Jun 12, 2018 | Event, Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
During our May 15 webinar, “Opportunity Costs and The Cost of Opportunities”, the audience asked Shawn Williams, VP of R&D at Rogers Corporation, Udi Chatow, Business Management at Applied Materials, and I questions on how to leverage opportunity costs to drive...
