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...
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Strategic Planning
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...
March 01, 2004
One of the biggest challenges facing the United Kingdom Royal Mail and other service organizations is how to maximize the value of its investments in technology, driven by increasing global...
March 01, 2004
Top-performing companies recognize that success will depend on their ability to create and apply knowledge in ways that fit their increasingly complex and dynamic market and corporate environments...
March 01, 2004
The global Technology Management Group (TMG) formed by General Motors in 1999 was charged with these key initiatives: manage and prioritize portfolios of advanced technical work, allocating funding...
March 01, 2004
One way we can serve our customers better is by assuring that all associates, employees and partners have access to the same information when making business decisions. This is the focus of the...
March 01, 2004
The wide range of strategic contexts in which technology roadmapping can be applied makes the technique inherently flexible. The strategic context can be described in terms of a number of dimensions...
March 01, 2004
As many industrial organizations have learned to apply roadmapping successfully, they have also learned that it is “roadmapping†rather than “the roadmap†that generates value. This two-part special...
March 01, 2004
Research organizations must have a strong balance of near-term and exploratory projects. Having a system that tracks and nurtures the development of these projects enables the organization to advance...
September 01, 2005
Sustainable development has three broad goals: environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity, for both the organization and its stakeholders. In a successful sustainability...
May 10, 2017
Explore the challenges incumbent firms face in dealing with technological change and associated innovation streams. Dr. Tushman focuses on the role of the senior team, with particular reference to R...
May 10, 2017
Express Learning Presenters share a practical approach for spotting-evaluating-integrating of emerging technologies with the focus on building reliable internal and external networks to...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project The goal of this ROR is to discover best practices for establishing a long-term vision for R&D that is tied to business strategies and how to use this vision to influence the...
March 22, 2017
This presentation will include an overview of open innovation, including the drivers and benefits of open innovation. It will discuss the characteristics of successful open innovation endeavors,...
March 22, 2017
This interactive presentation will focus on how to create an actionable strategy, how to identify gaps between spending and strategy, and how to build consensus about priorities that are on-strategy...