Enhancing Portfolio Value

One of the great paradoxes in the business world is that forward-thinking companies can actually find themselves at a disadvantage because they don’t have an effective way to prioritize their activities. As a result, organizations with diverse portfolios often find themselves overwhelmed by their own innovations and have difficulty focusing their strategic and financial resources on the projects that are most likely to create value.

In 2006 Inspire Pharmaceuticals, a North Carolina-based company that discovers, develops and commercializes treatments for ophthalmic and respiratory/ allergy diseases, turned to SmartOrg’s Portfolio Navigator™ to create a formal process to analyze inputs that are critical in decision-making, such as probability of success, costs and timing of R&D, and commercial contributions. Read more.