Community Forum – How do you measure your strategic portfolio?

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Resource Type
Survey (Community Forum)
Publish Date
04/05/2024
Author
Innovation Research Interchange
Topics
Improving the innovation pipeline, Enhancing sustainability, Leadership Assessment, Improve the Innovation Pipeline
Associated Event
Publication
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A: How do you measure your strategic portfolio?

An IRI member was looking to improve their organization’s decision-making processes. Members were asked to share their insights on risk assessment and KPIs like project success/failure rate and innovation portfolio health. 

The results of the survey are below.

Community Responses

What KPIs do you use to measure the sufficiency/health of your innovation portfolio that we missed? 

  1. Progression of projects passing through stage gates. 
  1. Forecasted OTD 
  1. Alignment to strategic documents 
  1. Alignment to core capabilities 
  1. Workforce predictions 
  1. Strategic impact 
  1. ROI estimates 
  1. Decisions per quarter  
  1. Number of gates delayed or rescheduled  
  1. Projects cancelled at a late moment in the development e.g. after prototyping and/or scale up  
  1. Actual vs. anticipated annual revenues