July 31, 2017
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June 05, 2017
"If businesses are not focused on millennials, they are at a competitive disadvantage," says Anne Donovan , human capital transformation leader at PwC. "Organizations that understand how much...
July 05, 2017
A new strategic project is brewing at IRI. These longer-term, large-scale, strategic research initiatives are a chance to dive into something truly unique. Our first such project was the IRI2038...
May 01, 2004
The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers by C. K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy Ihis book challenges the traditional (and fundamental) notion of value and its creation, namely...
May 01, 2004
“Tom Evers,” vice president of research for the XYZ Corporation, was in a heated discussion with “Jim Taylor,” group leader of Project MZ, about Jim ’s inability to keep the project on schedule. Jim...
May 01, 2004
Translation of strategy into new product initiatives is the focus of this second of three articles reporting the results of the most recent American Productivity and Quality Center study on...
May 01, 2004
Most knowledge-intensive organizations recognize that their source of competitive advantage comes from human capital. Yet few reliable metrics exist for measuring its value. A new metric draws on...
May 01, 2004
As a result of recent accounting rule changes and the enforcement implications of the Sarbanes Oxley legislation, fair market value of intellectual property (IP) is now reported in greater detail on...
May 01, 2004
Managers choosing which R&D projects to fund typically rely on rank-ordering heuristics when other valuation methods are not applicable. These heuristics are powerful, but they have a number of...
May 01, 2004
Success in technology development depends increasingly on speed to profitable commercialization. This calls for a new type of technology development management. As projects move from opportunity...
May 01, 2004
Surveys are commonplace in organizations, with more than 70 percent of U.S. organizations using them regularly (1). R&D managers can use surveys to understand the perceptions, thoughts, feelings...
May 01, 2004
Recently, I carefully reviewed the work that I had done during the last decade in carrying out two global benchmarking activities in 1992 (1) and 1999 (2) of the world’s largest R&D spenders...
May 01, 2004
Industry, Government Leaders Confront World's Innovation Needs Science policy—the ordered management of research—remains as hard to define as “industrial policy.” But research ministers and industry...
July 10, 2017
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) From the Editor Fun and Challenge James Eucher Feature Article The Role of Leadership in Innovation...
July 10, 2017
FM Global is a unique insurance company. It’s an engineering-based insurer. Our business model is based on reducing our clients’ property risk and potential for business interruption through...
July 01, 2017
Leadership is an ongoing preoccupation for the innovation community. Every company wants to be a market leader, and many rely on innovation to provide that leadership. At the national level,...