Strategic-Finance

Harness the Power of Financially Informed Decisions

in Innovation & SAFe®: Real Options

Lean-Startup and SAFe® (Agility) are well-suited approaches to innovation; they minimize risks and increase speed. Nevertheless, decision makers still require a financial rational. The suitable rational exists: Real Options.

Our Leading-Edge software puts sound & intelligible

Real Options valuation at your fingertips,

for AGILE Business Cases and

Lean Portfolio Management

Why use Real Options ?

Accelerated Decision-Making, avoiding costs of non-decisions (= burn-rate x delay) and lost opportunities.
Risk Management and Reduction, leading to a reduction in the likelihood of pursuing non-viable innovation projects.
Enhanced Project Evaluation, thus capturing and optimizing the true value of agile innovation initiatives.

When to use Real Options:

Innovation Business Cases to conclude swiftly on innovation initiatives: Accept with confidence or reject without regret. “Focus!” – Steve Jobs. More details
Financial Portfolio Prioritization to allocate resources judiciously to the most promising projects. Thereby maximize financial value creation. More details

Our Leading-Edge software puts sound & intelligible Real Options valuation at your fingertips: The Real Options Calculator

Intelligible and natural expression of business assumption

Financially sound evaluation of Agile Business Cases using Real Options

Analyses to bolster the acceptance or rejection of agile innovation initiatives

Lean Portfolio Management using a truly financial WSJF prioritization metrics

Our Leading-Edge software encapsulates decades of Real Options expertise and recent research progress, it is 100% compatible with Lean-Startup and SAFe® methodologies and offers 100% backward-compatibility with the Cox-Ross-Rubinstein model.

To learn more about Real Options: Co-authored articles:

With Scaled Agile Inc (SAFe®): Improving Portfolio Outcomes with Real Options. – Joe Vallone, SAFe Fellow

With Rita McGraph, best selling author and professor at the Columbia Business School, New York: NPV doesn’t work for risky, high-potential projects. Here’s a better approach.

Our real Options users:

Testimonies:

Director of Corporate Finance and Financial Analysis at Eutelsat

“At Eutelsat, we need to plan long term businesses facing uncertainties and in such a context, flexibility has significant value. This is the reason why we have been using since 2018 Real Options as a financial framework and more importantly as a state of mind allowing us to define valuable alternatives.

This approach has helped us assessing projects involving large investments to address technical and commercial uncertainties.”
Laurent Zenou, Eng., MBA

President of Association for Management and Valuation of Intangibles,
Co-President of the Intellectual Property Valuation Committee in the Licensing Executives Society France.

“At AMAVI and StradiValue, our areas of focus are the valuation of intangible assets and innovative projects. In these areas, Real Options finance is instrumental to us: this method provides a transparent and convincing framework that supports co-operation, negotiation, and fast convergence of all parties having to deal with a complex, strategical and/ or intangible project.

We also find the method easily applicable, as it works with any topology of business projects, and software exists for an easy implementation.”
Prof. Dr. Véronique Blum, Ph.D.