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...
by David Matheson | Sep 10, 2013 | Principles of Strategic Portfolio Management, Strategic Portfolio Management
The term “portfolio management” is a really confusing term. There are all kinds of portfolios: financial portfolios, R&D portfolios, NPD portfolios, innovation portfolios, insurance portfolios, and on and on. And then there are “strategic portfolios” —...
by David Matheson | Aug 26, 2013 | Strategy
Accelerating profitable growth with portfolio management A recent study shows that strategic portfolio management is a great way to accelerate profitable growth in your company. The PMI Pulse of the Profession In-Depth Report on Portfolio Management based on an annual...
by Somik Raha | Jun 3, 2013 | Professional Development, Strategy
Framing decisions is arguably the hardest aspect of decision analysis. This is because when framing, you have to simplify down to the things that really matter the most. If you do this incorrectly, you can end up with a complicated mess or you constrain the problem...
