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5th Annual Community of Practice 2020: Creating Breakthroughs

5th Annual Community of Practice 2020: Creating Breakthroughs

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...
Guidebook: Innovation Portfolio Management – Balancing Value and Risk (Frost & Sullivan/SmartOrg/Beta Inc.)

Guidebook: Innovation Portfolio Management – Balancing Value and Risk (Frost & Sullivan/SmartOrg/Beta Inc.)

by David Matheson | Oct 29, 2020 | Strategic Portfolio Management

Best Practice Frost & Sullivan awarded Beta Corporation* with a Best Practice designation for its portfolio management process. Beta implemented a six-step portfolio management process to focus on its most valuable opportunities. This process helped them achieve...
Strategic Portfolio Management at DuPont

Strategic Portfolio Management at DuPont

by David Matheson | Sep 30, 2020 | Strategic Portfolio Management

Plug MatterAuthors Bio, Contact info Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the...
Benchmarking Improvements in Portfolio Returns

Benchmarking Improvements in Portfolio Returns

by David Matheson | May 8, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio Management

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...
What Is Your Opportunity Cost Costing You?

What Is Your Opportunity Cost Costing You?

by David Matheson | Dec 11, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management

The cost of an opportunity is, of course, the sum of the resources required to pursue a selected opportunity. Usually it is straightforward to add up this cost, although for innovation opportunities, uncertainties may make some part of the cost unforeseeable. However,...
The Four Critical Questions in Portfolio Decisions

The Four Critical Questions in Portfolio Decisions

by David Matheson | Aug 8, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint

Strategic portfolio management can give your company leverage to meet its growth goals and renew its products and services to avoid obsolescence and commoditization. The process doesn’t have to be complex and bogged down in details. There are simple,...
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