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™
An earlier ValuePoint introduced the Four Critical Questions for Decision-making in Strategic Portfolio Management (see below), followed by an edition that examined the Sufficiency and Significance questions. In this edition, we’ll look at Renewal. All businesses die....
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,...