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...
by David Matheson | May 8, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Big Growth Goals In a February edition of ValuePoint, I discussed opportunity cost in your innovation portfolio. Because of scarcity of resources, it’s rare that an organization can vigorously pursue all of the innovation opportunities it comes up with. But...
by David Matheson | Apr 20, 2018 | Practitioners Guide to Project Evaluation, Professional Development
Need help navigating trick discussions about market share? All you need is a good understanding of how market competition works and where market share may be up. The Rule of 3 and 4 is an empirical rule-of-thumb that helps people through the process of determining...
by David Matheson | Apr 20, 2018 | Practitioners Guide to Project Evaluation, Professional Development
How Big? Market Share, Price, and Margin Market share, price and margin can create a kind of swirl, a kind of circular thinking. So, you want to think about your strategy and define yourself and get clear about your value proposition. Think about the strategy...
by SmartOrg | Apr 10, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Strategic portfolio management (SPM) is a powerful technique for making systematic decisions that increase the value of one’s innovation and product development efforts. As Head of Solutions and Product at SmartOrg, I would like to introduce various tools we offer to...
by David Matheson | Feb 8, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
One of the biggest factors in valuation of an innovation portfolio is opportunity cost. Unless you have sufficient management bandwidth, technical capability, time, and money to execute every idea in your innovation portfolio, you will only be able to fully pursue...
