Executive summary
The closing asset of the product portfolio rationalization pathway: a complete synthetic engagement with reconciled numbers, and the case lab for practicing every grow, change or retire gate before a live portfolio is at stake.
What is inside
What the case and lab cover
The asset tells the whole engagement story of one synthetic consumer goods manufacturer through all nine pathway stages, packages the same story as a staged exercise dataset, and sets out a facilitated lab in which teams sign gate decisions before any debrief, have them scored against the reference engagement, and record the adaptations their own portfolio would need. It closes with certification rules, facilitator preparation standards, and the register that feeds lab findings back into the method.
- The complete portfolio rationalization pathway told on one labeled synthetic manufacturer, from the margin baseline to the month-12 benefits review
- How every number in the case reconciles across the nine working assets that precede it
- How the case data is packaged and released in stages so teams decide with only what the engagement knew at that point
- A facilitated case lab in which competing teams commit written gate decisions, are scored, and debate divergences
- How the retirement-wave decision is rehearsed under the same transfer-rate gate a live program would face
- Certification rules for teams and readiness rules for facilitators
- How adaptations proposed in the lab are reviewed, dispositioned and fed back to the community of practice
- A failure case showing what a passive walkthrough of the same material fails to build