3 Presentations

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  10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

  The Essence of Comparing Apples and Pears within R&D Portfolio Management

  • Nico Vandaele, presenter, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Catherine Decouttere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  Contemporary R&D portfolio management goes far beyond the technical and financial evaluation... More and more it has to take sustainability and other societal values into account. We develop an approach where sustainability is explored in a broad sense for evaluating R&D activities contained in a R&D portfolio. This assessment is the basis for a constrained ranking taking resources into account like budgets, people, time, etc. Some examples from industry will be shown.

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  11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

  Measuring the Qualia of an R&D Portfolio Management: Experiences from Industrial Practice

  • Nico Vandaele, presenter, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Catherine Decouttere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  In order to be able to make the R&D portfolio assessment a success, there is a need to measure user and societal aspects in a reliable way. Based on the conclusions from an industrial review, we formulate the decision problem at hand and give a first hand of solution. It boils down to the necessity to incorporate qualia and values into the decision problem which reflects inherent conflicts between managers, engineers and creative intuitive minds. We illustrate with multiple examples from our industrial practice.

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  11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  Open Debate and Reflections

  • Nico Vandaele, presenter, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  • Catherine Decouttere, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven