1. Aptage
AI for Managing Innovation
with Confidence (not Hope)
John Heintz, CEO (john@aptage.com)
Murray Cantor, CTO (murray@aptage.com)
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Why Aptage
Disruption will happen
Innovation is necessary
Uncertainty is natural
Risk must go down
Aptage helps you navigate these
with Confidence… not just hope
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Challenges to Innovation, Management, and Success
Project Status
Green-Green-
Green-RED!
Lack of Focus
Whack-a-Mole
Fighting Fires
Decline
Disruption
Poor Economics
Struggle
To Invest
With Success
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Strategy
Decision Support
Execution
Delivery Support
• Make sound economic investment decisions
• Digital Transformation, Product Launches, Innovation
• Complex Systems, Construction, Hardware/Software
• Manage innovation, risk, and uncertainty to success
How likely to finish on time? When will work items finish?
Innovation/Risk Portfolio Probable J-S Curves
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Strategy
Decision Support
Evaluate Option:
• Buy/Build
• Different Strategies
• Different Vendors
Compare
• economic forecasts, timelines, and risk
CHOOSE, and execute with focus
Option 1 Option 2 Option 3
Aptage Portfolio View
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Aptage Decision Support for balancing risk and reward of innovation
Learns from new trend data to support both:
• Initial investment
• Ongoing go/no-go decisions
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Aptage Delivery Support for project execution and delivery
Identifies risk of delivery through the project lifecycle
• Early and timely detection avoid further sunk costs
Uses clients’ project Data
Risk must go down to deliver
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Aptage Risk Burndown for MS Project
• Multiple teams
• Dependencies
• Probabilistic critical path
• Likelihood of task start and
finish dates.
• Availability of resources
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Proprietary AI that integrates
the best thinking about
managing uncertainty and risk.
Elicit ranges,
not averages
Utilize team beliefs
as probabilities
Delphi
Game theory
Leverage intuition
& mathematics
Aptage Differentiators
Our team has a unique combination
• Data science (the mathematics of uncertainty)
• Deep domain knowledge (econ of development)
Our IP is a small data, in-place, learning AI
• Continuously learns, predict, advices
• Proprietary Algorithm (Trade Secret)
• Although data available is small, Aptage can still
provide actionable advice for strategy/execution
AI Platform for
Projects
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In summary
Disruption will happen
Innovation is necessary
Uncertainty is natural
Risk must go down
Aptage provides the AI to
enhance your ability succeed at
innovation
11. Thank You
Aptage, AI for Innovation Management
Contact us today at hello@aptage.com or via http://aptage.com
to learn how Aptage can bring confident data-driven strategy and execution
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Key Staff
John Heintz, CEO
•John has the unique ability to blend technical leadership
and intuitive organizational management to solve critical
business problems. o
•A decade ago, John founded Gist Labs, an internationally
successful consulting company.
•He is a product innovation expert, Agile/Lean
development expert, published author in several journals,
and speaker.
Dr. Murray Cantor, CTO
•PhD in Math. Long-standing industry expert in Development
organization dynamics and economics.
•IBM Distinguished Engineer. Former Rational Brand CTO team
member leading development market strategy and team
analytics.
•He’s written dozens of articles and two books. For over 30
years he has been passionate about addressing uncertainty in
development.
Walter Bodwell, VP, Engineering
•Experienced professional developer in many languages
including Java, Ruby, Python, and others.
•VP of Engineering for multiple startups.
•Experience managing 150 engineers.
John Gonzalez, Head of Sales
John Gonzalez has over 28 years of Strategic & Global
account sales, management and executive leadership
experience.
He was successful in delivering top line revenue and
positively impacting the bottom line for both his employers
and their customers respectively.
Ricky Solomon, Advisor
Through the years, Ricky has structured many financings,
both public and private, in multiple industries, with a
concentration in tech.
He is also a very active angel investor and serves on
multiple corporate boards.
Kurt Sand, Advisor
VP/GM with NetApp. Kurt is a seasoned executive with a
proven track record in product management, product
marketing and pre-sales. Wide-ranging experience in small
and large companies, leading global teams that deliver
strategic growth.
