by Doug Williams | Apr 10, 2024 | Event, ValuePoint™
You’ve been incubating your innovation for a year now and are heading into the final approval meeting to put serious money into the opportunity. As you enter the room, on your left sits the skeptical CFO, with her ever-present scowl firmly in place. You hope you’ve...
by David Matheson | Apr 9, 2024 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
[Updated 04-09-24] Breakthrough innovation takes an organization out of its familiar comfort zone into a realm of uncertainty. Unlike incremental innovations into existing product domains and markets where the behavior of technology and customers is well understood,...
by SmartOrg | Apr 17, 2023 | ValuePoint™
Learn how this graphical method helps clarify ideas Conflict, confusion, and analysis paralysis can be overwhelming when making decisions about innovation. Sometimes, we can even get into shouting matches over what’s important. Such issues can obscure opportunity...
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 Amy Day | Feb 16, 2022 | ValuePoint™
Do you remember your life when Covid started? How was it possible that everyone was obsessed with toilet paper? Shelves were emptied, people were frantic, and stores put limits on purchase quantities. Of course, panic was at play, but why toilet paper? Underneath the...
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...
