Portfolio Management, key for your fortunes!
That was the debate at Philips in a joint symposium with INSEAD Directors Network Netherlands on September 1st, 2026. A Lab on ‘Portfolio management and governance as key success factors for innovation and venturing’
Fred Langerak professor and vice-dean at Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences department at TU/e. Presented the difference between risk and uncertainty.
Manage your portfolio according the uncertainty:
- Known-unknowns: manage project execution
- Unknown-unknowns: manage uncertainty reduction
Sjoerd Kamerbeek, lawyer and managing partner at Van Doorne on what good governance of a portfolio implies.
Key takeaway: Everyone is potentially liable for bad governance: management, board, observers and share holders. So do it right.
Jeroen de Kempenaer, thank you for organising this event and Philips for hosting this event.