Reinventing the Product Portfolio: Creating a Sustainable Innovation Pipeline

Program Info

Bring your team together to learn how you can create the highest value from your company's investments in new products, innovation and R&D in the convenience of your own office. Advanced technology will bring you together with industry experts and your peers via highly participative case studies and exercises that draw on the best practices of leading companies.

Why Is An Online Course Format Ideal for Portfolio Management?

During this month long course, you and your colleagues have the opportunity to create a draft of your organization's revitalized portfolio. Through a series of online workshops, interactive simulations, teleconferenced coaching sessions and networking opportunities, you and your team will have the opportunity to learn and apply principles of good portfolio management to your own portfolio process. You will learn what it takes to deal with key difficulties in evaluation, fully understand how to reach prioritization and portfolio strategy decisions by trying out the principles of good portfolio management.

By actively participating in this program, you will learn how to:

Identify and focus scarce resources on high value projects
Weed out the losers early in your process
Retain value if you have to cut resources
Make uncertainty work for you
Develop defensible forecast of economic value
Make faster, better decisions with limited information
Achieve high margins with limited resources

This collaborative on-line learning program will dispel common misconceptions about portfolio management and reinforce the importance of good project evaluation as a foundation for success. The course will focus on systems and processes that enable you to identify and deal explicitly with key economic-value drivers and the uncertainties that impact value. You will learn how to develop and present evaluations, forecasts and recommendations that enable decision-makers to confidently select high-value projects, kill losers early, allocate scarce resources, and create a balanced risk/reward portfolio.

As a participant, you will come away with:

An understanding of the principles for creating great portfolios and an assessment of where your company stands relative to benchmarks
A practical process model that provides step-by-step guidance on how to apply value-based principles to your portfolio decision making
Approaches to improve critical thinking about economic and strategic issues that affect your company's projects and portfolios
Proven tools and methods to create objectivity throughout the evaluation process - even when solid data is unavailable
A draft of your new product portfolio

Limited space available
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This innovative and collaborative course features:

Three (3) live,
online workshops - April 8, 22 and May 6:

The "What and Why" of Strategic Portfolio Management -
Thursday, April 8 - Noon-4:00pm ET
The "How" of Portfolio Management: Project Evaluation -
Thursday, April 22 - Noon-4:00pm ET
The "How" of Portfolio Management: Portfolio Decisions -
Thursday, May 6 - Noon-4:00pm ET

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One-to-One phone coaching sessions
with the course instructor
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David Matheson