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Product portfolio analysis: What to do when it`s made

Product portfolio analysis is a crucial tool for any business with a stack of products or services on the market. The approach can differ but at the end of the day, the desired result is a valuable assessment of business units. Boston Matrix, also known as growth-share matrix is one of the proven methods and at A4E we`ve built a tool to simplify the task by evaluating a product contribution to the overall profit and its popularity among the customer base.

Here comes the question – what to do when our report is done? Are there recipes for successful business decision when the data is sorted and properly displayed? What are the insights we can extract out of the products categorized as Stars, Dogs, Cows, and Puzzles? How to turn a Puzzle into Star or a Dog into a Cash Cow?

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How Boston Matrix Can Boost (Almost) Any Business

Boston Matrix is a simple analytics diagram displaying business data in a convenient manner to deliver insights to managers on the performance of a product in terms of profitability and sales volumes. This data visualization approach, also known as growth-share matrix or portfolio diagram can be applied not just in terms of product performance but also in terms of ranking almost everything, including customers, revenue sources, marketing activities, etc. It is suitable even for NGOs willing to be more efficient in fundraising.