February 2006
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Product Development and Management Association 2005 International Conference

22-26 October 2005, Paradise Point Resort and Spa, San Diego



Innovations in New Product Development, Management, and Marketing: A Frost & Sullivan Executive Summit

6-10 November 2005, Hyatt Miami



Project World

15-18 November 2005, Walt Disney World Contemporary Resort, Orlando

Introducing Decision Advisor® II

Desktop application for designing, creating and analyzing business models.

Today, SmartOrg announced the release of Decision Advisor II, a desktop application that brings transparency to decisions about the future: forecasts, new products, processes, and other business opportunities. The system produces a clear picture of the most important technical and commercial factors that drive value and where to best allocate resources to minimize downside risk and drive toward upside value. This new version of Decision Advisor includes an enhanced user interface and process flows to make it even easier to use.

Boeing, Hewlett Packard and others use Decision Advisor to facilitate rapid business modeling and to improve decision-making productivity. Says an HP Marketing Director, ‘‘We used Decision Advisor in a workshop setting to evaluate a new business opportunity. This was one of the most productive days I have ever spent. It saved us months of effort.”

To learn more, read the product sheet.

Features

In Focus: HP Improves the Odds of New Business Success
By Doug Henschen, Intelligent Enterprise

"If only we knew what we know." These words from Lew Platt, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, were often invoked in the late 1990s as a sort of rallying cry for knowledge management.

You can't know the unknown, but technology can organize what is known and point to the most likely path to 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.

Click here to read the complete article from Intelligent Enterprise.

Upcoming Events

11th Annual Strategic and Operational Portfolio Management Conference (PDMA/IIR)

27 Feb-1 March 2006
Hyatt Regency Pier 66, Ft. Lauderdale

David Matheson, SmartOrg President and CEO, chairs and addresses a full-day pre-conference symposium, Project Evaluation & Selection, featuring guest speakers from Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett-Packard, and the PDMA.

Product Portfolio and Pipeline Management Conference

24-25 April 2006
Wyndham O'Hare Hotel, Chicago

SmartOrg sponsors and exhibits at the conference, which is hosted by The Management Roundtable. David Matheson, SmartOrg President and CEO, teaches a half-day pre-conference workshop, Optimizing the Business Value of Projects & Portfolios.

Delivering Project Excellence

5 – 7 June 2006
Scottsdale Resort and Spa, Scottsdale

This show brings transformational learning in the leadership, communications and professional skills for Project Managers. Jim Matheson, Chairman and CFO of SmartOrg, will present at a session titled Secrets of Strategic Project Portfolio Management.
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