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,...
by Stuart Creque | May 28, 2019 | Innovation Management
What if there is a way to govern innovation by combining these methods using a design-led approach? In the end, each method enables faster, cheaper and replicable-at-scale processes. How can Design help us be better and more efficient? How can Design and Lean Startup...
by David Matheson | May 8, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
At a recent workshop, a group of 35 R&D and innovation executives in industries ranging from automotive to healthcare came together to benchmark improvement potential. Each selected a real example project from their portfolio and applied an estimation model based...
by David Matheson | Apr 16, 2019 | Resources
At a recent innovation conference, Henry Bryndza of DuPont reported on how they had improved the returns of their innovation across the portfolio by 2-3 times. But was this a fluke, a one-off result due to their particular circumstances? Or would applying the methods...
by David Matheson | Mar 5, 2019 | Strategy, ValuePoint™
At first blush, you’d think that Decision Analysts have a lot to contribute to innovation. Innovators face tremendous uncertainty; Decision Analysts are experts at making decisions under uncertain circumstances. However, Decision Analysts and Innovators look at the...
by Stuart Creque | Feb 12, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio Management
Over our 20-year history, SmartOrg has helped numerous organizations increase the value of their innovation and new product portfolios, sometimes several-fold. Here are ten tips we can share for increasing your portfolio value. Understand the value of good portfolio...
