by David Matheson | Oct 9, 2019 | ValuePoint™
Congratulations, you got the job! Your company has realized it lacks breakthrough growth opportunities. After some idea generation and strategic analysis, they have selected several new territories that seem to be target rich. Maybe the territory is built around a...
by David Matheson | Jun 11, 2019 | ValuePoint™
At the Front End of Innovation event in Boston last month, Alexa Dembek of DuPont and Neal Gutterson of Corteva Agriscience shared their perspectives on navigating the Merger of the Century between DuPont and Dow Chemical. The merged DowDuPont has split into three...
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 David Matheson | Apr 9, 2019 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
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, breakthrough...
by David Matheson | Mar 5, 2019 | Strategy, ValuePoint™
At first blush, you’d think that Decision Analysts have a lot to contribute to innovation. Innovators face tremendous uncertainty; Decision Analysts are experts at making decisions under uncertain circumstances. However, Decision Analysts and Innovators look at the...
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,...