by SmartOrg | Feb 29, 2020 | Event, Innovation Management
How to Overcome Challenges in Building a Successful Innovation Incubator Speaker, Cory A. Christensen Recap of February 20, 2020 PDMA Webinar What Cory Christensen of Corteva Agriscience learned from his innovation trek is how to build a disruptive innovation...
by Ralph Morales III | Feb 12, 2020 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
Chapter Two: Prioritizing the Value of Evidence After my stint as the finance director for HP’s effort to enter the on-demand photo printing market, I transitioned into the role of Innovation Scout for HP’s foray into consumer wearables. Back in the 1970s, HP tried to...
by Ralph Morales III | Jan 8, 2020 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
Managing Innovation Innovation is a source of fascination and fear for executives and managers of enterprise companies. Various surveys of business leaders by Harvard Business School, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Innovation Leader put the problem for enterprise...
by SmartOrg | Oct 22, 2019 | Event, Innovation Management
Missing keys to delivering innovation: the value of evidence and the evidence of value FEI DIGITAL WEEK WEBINAR REPLAY October 22, 2019 In this webinar, Ralph Morales III, Head of Innovation Practice at SmartOrg, shares lessons he learned in Finance and Innovation...
by David Matheson | Sep 29, 2019 | Innovation Management
We recently helped a major chemical company conduct its portfolio review for 128 growth projects. Using SmartOrg’s Portfolio Navigator web-based evaluation platform, they systematically looked at the uncertainties in their business cases. Many project leaders saw...
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,...