Global MedTech · Innovation & portfolio strategy

Bringing discipline to R&D portfolio and investment decisions

Clarifying how business units and central technology leadership make investment and product-development decisions.

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ExhibitDecision rights at each stage gate

The challenge

The group needed to prioritise innovation resources across products and business units. Accountability for technical decisions, investment trade-offs and stage-gate progression had to stay clear.

Our approach

  • Developed governance options for innovation and technology investment.
  • Mapped decision rights between central R&D and business-unit leadership.
  • Clarified the portfolio and stage-gate forums.
  • Shaped specialist capability options and the innovation narrative for executive stakeholders.

What we delivered

  • Investment prioritisation frameworks
  • Product governance options and accountability matrices
  • Decision-forum charters
  • Strategy materials for senior leadership

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