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...
by David Matheson | Jul 5, 2012 | Professional Development
Where do you stand? Are you really focusing your portfolio on creating new wealth, or are you making the political compromises necessary to get by? Do you have a great dashboard but don’t have credible data? We’ve seen many ways strategic portfolio management (SPM)...
by David Matheson | Jan 16, 2012 | Principles of Strategic Portfolio Management, Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
In past ValuePoint articles, Don Creswell has discussed the “R&D Grid” which was introduced in detail in “The Smart Organization” book by David and Jim Matheson. The grid has been renamed the “innovation screen” in Portfolio Navigator® but the function remains the...
by Somik Raha | Oct 14, 2011 | Professional Development
A short Tornado diagram tutorial SmartOrg presents a short tutorial on how to create a tornado diagram using a simple product development example of measuring profit. An important use of the tornado diagram is to help debug our model and also question our...
by Peter McNamee | Nov 19, 2010 | Professional Development
By John Celona and Peter McNamee NEW FOURTH EDITION. Decision Analysis has, for decades, been the most powerful method available for making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, e.g., new business strategies and new product launches. For orders of 10 or fewer...
