by David Matheson | Nov 12, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management
The Question of Efficiency This article addresses the last of the four critical questions for strategic portfolio decisions (see below), efficiency. The prior three questions — sufficiency, significance and renewal — are fundamentally questions of effectiveness, which...
by David Matheson | Oct 17, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
August’s ValuePoint introduced the Four Critical Questions for Decision-making in Strategic Portfolio Management (see below), and September’s edition examined the Sufficiency and Significance questions. In this edition, we’ll look at Renewal. All businesses die. Every...
by David Matheson | Sep 12, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Sufficiency An earlier ValuePoint introduced the Four Critical Questions for Decision-making in Strategic Portfolio Management (see sidebar). In this edition, we’ll look at two questions about Sufficiency and Significance. The Sufficiency question asks, “Do we have...
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,...
by David Matheson | Jun 12, 2018 | Event, Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
During our May 15 webinar, “Opportunity Costs and The Cost of Opportunities”, the audience asked Shawn Williams, VP of R&D at Rogers Corporation, Udi Chatow, Business Management at Applied Materials, and I questions on how to leverage opportunity costs to drive...
by David Matheson | May 8, 2018 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
Big Growth Goals In the February 2018 edition of ValuePoint, I discussed opportunity cost in your innovation portfolio. Because of scarcity of resources, it’s rare that an organization can vigorously pursue all of the innovation opportunities it comes up with. But...