May 01, 2007
Data from contract research organizations (CROs) and pharmaceutical companies reveal an increasing amount of outsourcing of biostatistics in clinical trials. However, a surprising number of projects...
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September 01, 2007
New product development is becoming increasingly risky, expensive and reliant on disparate knowledge bases spread across multiple firms. Many organizations are devolving design responsibility to...
January 01, 2006
You lead an R&D organization, either a department, team or project. How do you go about getting the best possible performance from your people? How are you organizing their work? Do you think...
March 01, 2005
Protection of intellectual property is still a major concern for those foreign direct investment (FDI)companies that operate laboratories in the Peoples Republic of China, according to a forum of...
May 01, 2005
Most managers recognize that time-to-market practices provide benefits for their organizations, but few have considered all available TTM strategies. Further, little research has been done into the...
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...
September 17, 2017
This study explores the concept of big data and whether, and to what extent, it might affect R&D management in the future. Through extensive discussions to dissect the nature of big data and to...
October 10, 2017
Biomimicry: Streamlining the Front End of Innovation for Environmentally Sustainable Products. Biomimicry, defined as innovation through the emulation of biological forms, processes, patterns, and...
November 01, 2017
At a scenario planning event for Industrial Research Institute members, a participant asked, “If another group had the same trends would they have created the same scenario we did?” The answer is no...
March 01, 1997
As companies mature, they generally decline in creating new value due to the failure of their internal innovation process. The aging organization comes to be dominated by operations executives, who...
July 01, 2018
Open innovation is an established approach to improve innovation performance, but many organizations have failed to embed open innovation in their innovation processes permanently and at scale...
March 01, 2019
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. —Albert Einstein (attributed) I worked in the mailing...
February 01, 2019
Is open innovation a key growth and competitive driver in your organization? If not, what are the barriers for it to deliver on its potential? By studying the historical challenges associated with...
September 05, 2019
Implementing Agile principles in large organizations is complex. Indeed, such organizations may struggle to prioritize people over processes, work over documentation, and flexibility over planning...
January 01, 2020
Overview: This paper describes mobile market research applications (MMRAs), new Voice of the Customer (VoC) tools that take advantage of the ubiquity of smartphones. MMRAs provide an efficient and...
Friday April 01, 2016 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Better understand how tools such as social networking and microblogging platforms are being used in NPD and what influence they have on NPD outcomes.