November 01, 2006
Remember when the management gurus told you your job was to build teamwork? Now the in-word is collaboration, because innovation of all kinds requires high levels of interactivity, not only within...
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July 01, 2005
What exactly does quality management in research mean? This remains a question frequently asked by managers and staff of industrial research laboratories. Surrounding business functions like...
May 10, 2017
The future of open innovation will be more extensive, more collaborative, and more engaged with a wider variety of participants. It will extend beyond technology to business models, and will embrace...
September 01, 2005
The word sustainability has many meanings, most often connoting a reactive response to an environmental problem. The three articles that follow first provide definitions for sustainability that...
January 01, 2004
Company leaders, CFOs, the stock market, and the Federal Accounting Standards Board have begun to realize what CTOs and marketers have always known: the greatest driver of value in a company is its...
January 01, 2004
As a knowledge business, R&D depends on the smooth, collaborative flow of information and ideas among scientists and engineers. Successful teams generate knowledge and share it freely, building...
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...
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...
November 01, 2017
The future of open innovation will be more extensive, more collaborative, and more engaged with a wider variety of participants. It will extend beyond technology to business models, and it will...
May 18, 2018
In this ever-changing world, it is business critical to stay ahead of your competition by creating new and innovative products that meet your consumer needs. Predicting where your competitors are...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Innovation leaders are faced with an unprecedented rate of change in the world today. Observable technology and consumer trends present increasingly frequent opportunities for growth...
May 06, 2019
Jaron Lanier is the inventor of virtual reality and a technologist with deep roots in the high-tech sector. Nevertheless, he has deep concerns about the consequences of some of the technical and...
May 01, 2019
With the globally rising electrification & digitization of platform-level technologies, many R&D teams struggle with the overwhelming need to remain current – and keep their stakeholders...
July 01, 2019
Many years ago when I was an MBA student at the University of Chicago, I heard the famous Roman Weil, professor of accounting, tell a large gathering of students, “Accounting is the language of...
October 16, 2019
Recruiting and developing human-centered, digital first, design-savvy, and multi-disciplinary employees Digital transformation requires people transformation, so the ability to design, monitor and...
March 01, 2020
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability. —Robert Half The entire business of assessing professionals’ talents is fraught with...