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...
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 | 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...
