Webcast Recording: Principles of Strategic Portfolio Management

 Part 1 of the special three part SmartOrg webcast series: From Projects to Portfolios: Optimizing Value from Selection to Commercialization

It is challenging to make strategic decisions about your portfolio such as prioritizing projects, culling out those unlikely to pay off, focusing resources, and determining investment levels.  Organizations face with significant uncertainty, conflicting objectives and difficult-to-compare proposals. The principles of strategic portfolio management, developed for Stanford’s Strategic Decision and Risk Management program, summarize what it takes to create a portfolio that wins. 

You will learn:
• 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

Meet Your Presenter:
David Matheson, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, President and CEO
SmartOrg Inc.

Dr. David Matheson has helped senior management of firms in the United States and Europe improve the value of R&D, product development, innovation,capital investment and strategy.

His practical experience covers a wide variety of industries, including software development, biotechnology, telecommunications, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, electric power and entertainment. He is co-author of the bestselling book, The Smart Organization: Creating Value through Strategic R&D (Harvard Business School Press).

Dr. Matheson co-founded SmartOrg in 2000, after a decade of consulting as a principal at SDG, to bring value-based management processes to customers through advanced software systems. His Ph.D. is from Stanford University, where he currently teaches at the Stanford Center for Professional Development.

Duration: 1 hour

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