ValuePoint Newsletters - Keep up-to-date on Value Based Management

• May 2010
  Forecasting under Uncertainty - PartIII
• Apr 2010
  Forecasting under Uncertainty - Part II
•  Mar 2010
  Forecasting under Uncertainty - Part I
  

Upcoming Events -Workshops, Conferences, Seminars, and Webinars

• SAP Customer Value Network

  The SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM) customer value network is hosting a customer-centric networking event on June 15-16, 2010 at the SAP Americas headquarters in Newtown Square, PA. This meeting is the ideal way to connect with other SAP customers who are running and evaluating SAP solutions for managing product innovation, portfolio, development, regulatory compliance, and life cycle processes. Join this gathering of product-lifecycle management (PLM) initiative leaders, business-process owners, and IT business analysts interested in leveraging the SAP PLM application in their organizations. The emphasis is on sharing effective deployment strategies and best practices to maximize business value from PLM investments.
  Starts: Tuesday June 15, 2010, 06:00PM
  
  

• Part 2: Portfolio Simulation – in collaboration with PDMA 

  Starts: Thursday 17 June 2010 @ 1:00pm CDT/2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT

  Learn More and Register
  
  

• Part 3: Putting It All Together: Creating Exceptional Value Case Study – in collaboration with PDMA

  Starts: Thursday 17 June 2010 @ 1:00pm CDT/2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT
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Past Events

• Part 1: Principles of Strategic Portfolio Management – in collaboration with PDMA
  

  Thursday 20 May 2010 @ 1:00pm CDT/2:00pm EDT/11:00am PDT
  David Matheson spoke about:
  • Eight key principles of strategic portfolio management and how you can employ them in your organization.
  • How your organization compares with others on applying the eight principles
  • Case studies that illustrate the principles
  
  

• SmartOrg + HP Webinar
  

  SmartOrg President and CEO, David Matheson joins HP executives to describe how value-based decision making helps HP create valuable new products.
  Feb. 24, 10:00 am P
  TFeb. 25, 1:00 pm PT
   

• Product Portfolio Management: Controlling Risk Exposure while Maximizing Profit Potential
  

  A two-day intensive Management Roundtable course focused on how to optimize project and portfolio value by managing uncertainty, identifying and prioritizing high-value projects, and allocating scarce resources.
  September 23-24, 2009, Chicago
  
  
  
• Growth, Innovation & Leadership Conference
  

  David Matheson will facilitate an interactive session titled: The Great Debate: Short vs.Long -Term; Operational vs. Strategic
  Portfolio Value Investment on Monday, September 14, 2009.
  September 13-16, 2009, Scottsdale
  
  
  

• Resource Planning Summit

  
  Don Creswell will present Portfolio Value Optimization and host various activities as a key sponsor of this event produced by PDW.
  June 29, 2009, Chicago
  
  

  
  

SmartOrg in the Media

• CFO Magazine
  What’s the Big Idea? A new breed of product portfolio management software promises to help companies pick a winner.
   
• Intelligent Enterprise
  In Focus: HP Improves the Odds of New Business Success To choose and prioritize a number of possible adjacent market plays for projection technology, HP relied on Decision Advisor software from SmartOrg. The result was the launch of a line of jumbo-sized rear-projection TVs in 2004