by Suhui Chen | Feb 22, 2020 | Strategic Portfolio Management
Suhui Chen Head of Product Overview: February 2020 Product Updates In this release, our goal is to take communication to the next level for both project teams and portfolio managers. We evolve our updates based on our customers’ needs, ensuring that Portfolio...
by David Matheson | Jun 18, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio 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 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 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...
by David Matheson | Feb 5, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
In the beloved classic children’s book Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag, an old man and an old woman decide to get a cat to be their companion. The Old Man sets out to find a pretty cat, and he comes across a valley full of… “…hundreds of cats,...
by David Matheson | Dec 11, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
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,...
