Dear MG-ED-DV professors and practioners,
A client wants to put some organization into their project selection
process - for manufacturing development level projects. They are quite
sophisticated in terms of technical aspects of execution for each project,
but true to form, there is a gap between that and the selection of a few
projects from the raft of potential. I'd like to help them with something
that will assure they have considered the major issues in a
tabular/organized way, but at the same time, will not result in 'analysis
paralysis' at this early point.
Once upon a time I watched a Research Director build a matrix of issues,
estimated probability of technical success, anticipated market payoff,
etc. Something like this _might_ work, but I'm sure that better/newer
organizational approaches are available today.
Can you (plural) point me toward some references to such methods? Perhaps
something in Research Management has done it already.
Jay
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Jay Warner
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Warner Consulting, Inc.
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