Research – Advanced Marketing Through R&D

Resource Type
Publication
Authors
Ron Cotterman, Tony Metoyer, Kerry Leeburn, Jonathon Leder, Carl Loweth, Alan Fusfeld, Susan Ward
Topics
Breakthrough Innovation, New Product Development
Associated Event
Publication

2005 – 2006

Deliverables

Report out Annual Meeting 2007

Aligning Marketing and Technology to Drive Innovation, RTM, Volume 52, Issue 5, 2009

Description

Being first to market with advanced technology solutions that satisfy unarticulated, unmet customer needs can result in very high margin products and services.  This ROR set out to:

  1. Investigate 25-30 companies of various sizes and types
  2. Organizational structure and incentives supporting the value proposition
  3. How do you marry technical push and market pull?   Where on the continuum do you operate?
  4. What techniques/tools/processes do you use?
  5. Focus on near- to far-adjacency, with significant technology development.  No focus on core (incremental products).

Participants

Co-Chairs
Ron Cotterman, Sealed Air
Tony Metoyer, Boeing
Kerry Leeburn, Eastman Chemical
Jonathon Leder, Novozymes
Carl Loweth, John Deere
 
Subject Matter Experts
Alan Fusfeld, The Fusfeld Group
Susan Ward, ITECS