Product Portfolio Management

Innovation is all about focusing and optimizing the product portfolio so you can get products to market at the right time and cost. Topics we’ll explore in the Product Innovation blog category range from ideation management to product launch and product end-of-life. Experts will provide recommendations to take your innovation strategy and delivery process to the next level. You’ll get tips for picking the right projects, prioritizing good projects, and aligning them with strategy. Take your innovation strategy to the next level with information on improving time to market to maximize resources, funding, and time. Get tips from other customers on how they improved transparency to pick the right projects and kill the bad projects early. You will also be able to access ground-breaking research and fresh insights on how capacity planning can accelerate business innovation while lowering risk.

Using Data Analytics to Navigate Tariff Impacts on Your Product Portfolio

Some uncertainty is inevitable for product-driven organizations. To mitigate risk and maximize value, most organizations perform a comprehensive impact analysis before making any investment decisions. However, some impacts are easier to estimate than others. Microeconomic industry changes, such as demand fluctuations or predictable innovations, are relatively straightforward – for example, automotive organizations can anticipate electric...

Emergent Challenges in Biopharma Portfolio Management

In 2023, Planview was pleased to sponsor several WHY Summit Events: Basil, Switzerland, and Philadelphia. A year later, we returned to Philadelphia and then headed cross-country to San Francisco for the WHY Summit’s 21st and 22nd American Pharma and Biotech Project, Program, and Portfolio Management Conference. In this blog, we will illuminate a few common...

Elevate Your PMO: How Looking to the Future Drives Value Today

Succeeding in today’s fast-paced world requires thinking about success beyond today and tomorrow. It requires envisioning and forging a path of sustainable success over multiple business cycles. At the heart of this endeavor lies the project management office (PMO). A well-run PMO is one of your organization’s greatest value drivers. It delivers business results quickly...

A Tale of Two Forecasts: Using Sales Forecasting Software to Bridge the Gap

A common problem in both portfolio management and sales and operational planning (S&OP) is reconciling product revenue forecasts between a company’s regional sales analysts and its corporate decision-makers. Typically, regional sales analysts focus on short-term objectives, and their forecasts must align with targets or commitments set by regional heads. By contrast, corporate staff tend to...

Using End-to-End Visibility to Scale and Streamline Automotive Production

The traditional paradigms of automotive manufacturing are evolving, driven by the imperative to integrate cutting-edge software solutions seamlessly with hardware production. As automotive companies navigate this transformative landscape, the need for end-to-end visibility in production processes becomes increasingly evident. This blog discusses the critical role of end-to-end visibility in scaling and streamlining automotive production. By...

Eliminate the Disconnects that Undermine Your PMO’s Value

We talked about how the PMO can be one of your organization’s greatest strategic value drivers. But how do you ensure your PMO is actually equipped and capable of achieving your desired business outcomes? In this post, we will discuss how you can get the most value from your PMO. And it starts with understanding...

The Missing Puzzle Piece: How to Connect Planning to Delivery

This blog post examines how to efficiently turn strategies into actions, highlighting Value Stream Management (VSM) as a critical method to streamline work from conception to delivery, ensuring strategies get executed effectively.

Top 10 Product Development and Innovation Management Predictions for 2024

As we welcome the new year, we asked our team of product innovation experts and thought leaders to identify trends they’re seeing across the industry and within our customer implementations. Ten key trends surfaced from that request with great potential for driving innovation, reshaping R&D practices, and redefining product portfolio management. The trends outlined in...

Digital Transformations Are Crucial to Optimizing Innovation Value

Speed in delivering high-value innovations is a critical differentiator that can make or break companies. According to a Boston Consulting Group report, companies prioritizing innovation—arriving first to market with new and relevant ideas—outperform the MSCI World Index on shareholder return by 3.3 percentage points per year.  As technologies evolve and disruptions become an ever-growing presence...