by David Matheson | Jul 14, 2022 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
“They’ve been sandbagging me,” the president of a multi-billion-dollar company exclaimed when I showed her a summary of the upsides in the growth portfolio. After years of declining growth and spending more and more “fighting the fade” of revenue in the core...
by David Matheson | Nov 11, 2021 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
The meeting with the executive committee isn’t going to be easy—for yet another year, the company’s innovation efforts have yielded only lackluster growth. The head of the core business, which has been in a long, slow decline, will undoubtedly challenge you again: I...
by David Matheson | Jun 14, 2021 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
The panic sets in. Who can we blame? What excuses can we offer? How do we manage the surprise? It seems we aren’t going to hit our numbers. Next year we resolve to do better. We put more work into predicting the right number. We get more data. We get firmer...
by David Matheson | Feb 3, 2021 | Innovation Management, Strategic Portfolio Management
Dialogue to Drive New Growth If resources were unlimited, Innovation (R&D and New Product Development) and Finance would never be in conflict: every idea would be fully funded and staffed. In a resource-constrained world, Innovation and Finance often work at...
by David Matheson | Dec 9, 2020 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Big Growth Goals By the third day of SmartOrg’s annual Community of Practice for executives in Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), one of the participants had an epiphany: “I used to think that SPM was just project roll-ups for reporting and make some incremental...
by David Matheson | Sep 30, 2020 | Strategic Portfolio Management
Strategic Portfolio Management at DuPont Struggling with too many weak projects? What are the critical few things to think about? Not know which projects are bad and which are good? Hear what SmartOrg customers say about the solutions provided and the influence on the...
