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ValuePoint Newsletters - Keep
up-to-date on Value Based Management
- July
2010
What is Value? Processes
and tools that help companies optimize
the value of projects and project portfolios
- June
2010
Forecasting under Uncertainty - Part IV
- May 2010
Forecasting under Uncertainty - PartIII - Apr 2010
Forecasting under Uncertainty - Part II
Upcoming
Events
-Workshops, Conferences, Seminars, and Webinars
Past
Events
- “Meet
the Boss” web TV features David Matheson, SmartOrg President and CEO
Capping a
weeklong series on Innovation, David responds to challenging
questions about the value of innovation in this stimulating 15
-minute segment.
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Navigating
the Perilous Waters of Product Innovation
Enhance your
company's profitability. Improving your success rate by even a few
percentage points can mean millions of dollars to your bottom
line....
View Webinar Replay
- Part
3: Putting It All Together: Creating Exceptional Value Case Study –
in collaboration with PDMA
In this final session of 3
web casts, SmartOrg discussed optimizing value from selection to
commercialization by changing the portfolio process. Executives at
Inspire accelerated time to market, reduced overhead, and delivered
higher profits. This case study tracks the development of a project
and how it proceeds through the portfolio over time, responding to
changing business challenges throughout the development process.
Participants learned how to successfully address complexity and
uncertainty in a product portfolio, learned successful ways of
prioritizing projects, dealing with risk, resolving conflicts and
generating breakthrough insights. The conversational and analytical
framework showed how to overcome seemingly intractable R&D and
business development issues in R&D, product development and other
areas. Thursday 15 July 2010.D, product development and other
areas. Thursday 15 July 2010.
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Part 2:
Portfolio Simulation – in collaboration with PDMA
This interactive session was
led by David Matheson focusing on optimizing business value by
managing project and portfolio risk and uncertainty. Participants
joined in a dynamic simulation of portfolio decision-making, a
facilitated discussion and share best practices. They learned about
optimizing portfolio returns, achieving portfolio balance, aligning
the portfolio to strategy and managing pipeline risk over time on
Thursday, June 17, 2010.
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SAP
Customer Value Network
The SAP Product Lifecycle
Management (SAP PLM) customer value network hosted a customer-centric
networking event on June 15-16, 2010 at the SAP Americas headquarters
in Newtown Square, PA. This meeting was the ideal way to connect with
other SAP customers who are run and evaluate SAP solutions for
managing product innovation, portfolio, development, regulatory
compliance, and life cycle processes. This gathering included
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 was on sharing effective deployment strategies and best
practices to maximize business value from PLM investments.
- Frost
and Sullivan Global Innovations in New Product Development
Sunday 6 June 2010 to Tuesday
8 June 2010, Anaheim, California
Resources remain constrained, and risk aversion remains prevalent.
You have to stay alive and keep your eyes on the basics. And be ready
when big investment catches up with big ideas. Now more than ever
resourcefulness, vision, and entrepreneurial spirit are the lifeblood
of organizations. Innovation is everywhere: in new products and
services, in business models, in breakthrough ideas, in disruptive
technologies, in social media, and in customer experiences. Economic
shifts have and will continue to re-shape existing business
landscapes and create new ones. Opportunity abounds. Now is the time
to envision the future - your own, your organization's, and your
industry's.
Eleven Interactive
Sessions enabled you to join a community of fellow participants,
actively engage in incredibly candid discussion with your peers, and
tailor the content to your specific needs.
- 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 joined HP executives and
described how value-based decision making helped HP create valuable
new products.
Feb. 24, 10:00 am PT
Feb. 25, 1:00 pm PT
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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 facilitated 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
- SAP
Customer Value Network
The SAP Product Lifecycle
Management (SAP PLM) customer value network hosted a customer-centric
networking event on June 15-16, 2010 at the SAP Americas headquarters
in Newtown Square, PA. This meeting was the ideal way to connect with
other SAP customers who are run and evaluate SAP solutions for
managing product innovation, portfolio, development, regulatory
compliance, and life cycle processes. This gathering included
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 was on sharing effective deployment strategies and best
practices to maximize business value from PLM investments. Use this
copy for Portfolio Simulation:
This interactive session was led by David Matheson focusing on
optimizing business value by managing project and portfolio risk and
uncertainty. Participants joined in a dynamic simulation of portfolio
decision-making, a facilitated discussion and share best practices.
They learned about optimizing portfolio returns, achieving portfolio
balance, aligning the portfolio to strategy and managing pipeline
risk over time on Thursday, July 17, 2010.
CVN Event SAP Headquarters Newtown Square, PA US
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Resource
Planning Summit
Don Creswell presented Portfolio Value Optimization and hosted
various activities as a key sponsor of this event produced by PDW.
June 29, 2009, Chicago
PLM
Conference with Platinum DB and SAP
Don Creswell and Tony DeRosa presented Portfolio Value and Resource
Optimization with Portfolio Navigator™ and SAP RPM at this World
Trade Group PLM event.
June 23-24, 2009, Miami
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Strategic
Portfolio Decisions Course
SmartOrg founders Jim Matheson and David Matheson were instructors.
June 15-17, 2009, Stanford University
This course continues to be available online. Click here
for more information
-
Innovations
in New Product & Marketing
David Matheson will
facilitated an interactive session titled: Cutting Cost Without
Cutting the Future: Fail Fast Exercises in Uncertainty on Monday,
June 8, 2009.
June 7-10, 2009, San Francisco
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Portfolio
Value Optimization: A Winning Approach in Uncertain Times
PlatinumDB Consulting,
SmartOrg and SAP hosted a one-hour program featuring Jim Brown,
president of Tech-Clarity, Inc., an independent research and
consulting firm that specializes in exposing the true business value
of software technology and services. Jim is a recognized thought
leader in best practices for maximizing business-performance
improvement from enterprise software initiatives, with special
expertise in product lifecycle and portfolio management.
One-hour webcast June 3 - 2:00 PM Eastern Time; 1:00 PM Central;
11:00 AM Pacific
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Optimizing Project and Portfolio Value in Uncertain Times. When to
Hold em and When to Fold em
In this free eBroadcast,
experts from Frost & Sullivan, Dow AgroSciences, and SmartOrg
showed how to win in today's tough economy.
May 21, 2009 11-12 PM PST
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Front
End of Innovation
SmartOrg CEO David Matheson
led a half day workshop titled: "Forecasting and Managing the
Economic Value of Innovation".
Rich Duncombe also gave the featured presentation "From Barrier
to Breakthrough: The keys to being a successful innovation catalyst.
May 18-20, 2009, Boston
International SAP Portfolio
and Project Management Conference 2009
March 31 - April 2, 2009
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Better. Cheaper. Faster. How
Value-Based Management Delivers Vastly Improved Portfolio Results
April 1, 2009
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14th
Annual Medical Device Conference
March 15 - 18, 2009
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Portfolio
Management for New Products & Services
February 23 - 25, 2009
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SAP
Portfolio and Project Management Conference 2008
November 10 - 12, 2008
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World
Trade Group - PLM Summit
October 11 - 14, 2008
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4th Annual
Growth Innovation and Leadership 2008: A Frost & Sullivan Global
Congress on Corporate Growth
September 14 - 17, 2008
SmartOrg in the Media
- “Meet
the Boss” web TV features David Matheson, SmartOrg President and CEO.
Capping a
weeklong series on Innovation, David responds to challenging
questions about the value of innovation in this stimulating 15-minute
segment.
- 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
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