by Don Creswell | Jun 4, 2014 | Principles of Strategic Portfolio Management, Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
During the past 20 years companies have greatly improved processes and systems for managing the “operational” aspects of project/portfolio management (PPM)–budgeting, project management, resource planning, and phase gate processes. Strategic portfolio management,...
by Don Creswell | May 20, 2014 | Resources
The job title, “Business Analyst” wasn’t on the radar a decade ago. Of course, there have always been analysts in the corporate world, but the evolution of this as a specific role is really a product of the growth of the pace, complexity, and globalization of business...
by Somik Raha | Mar 12, 2014 | Professional Development
Watch David Matheson’s lecture at Stanford University John D. clenched his fist. What seemed like promotion was now feeling more like a curse. John’s work on building a culture of community and improving collaboration in his team had been rewarded. He was now expected...
by David Matheson | Mar 6, 2014 | Innovation Management
Thanks to the advent of Big Data, companies are collecting more facts than ever before — about their industry, clients, future clients, the economy, real estate, the state of their organizations — physically and fiscally. Business decision makers can no longer plead...
by David Matheson | Dec 9, 2013 | Strategy
The strategic choice canvas is yet again another great post from Ricardo dos Santos. Ricardo was a thought leader in my session on ‘Failing Forward’ at the IIR’s Back End of Innovation 2013 conference. We at SmartOrg have used for decades similar canvas format in...
by David Matheson | Nov 20, 2013 | Innovation Management
Dennis Hong Dr. Dennis Hong of RoMeLa presented a very entertaining keynote at BEI13. I had an opportunity to chat with him following his talk and asked a few questions about his inspirations and how he designs and builds his robots. Here is a short summary of our...
