September 01, 2018
A Silicon Valley proverb says that we overpromise what we can deliver in three years and underestimate what we can do in ten. Nowhere has that been borne out more vividly than in the field of spray-...
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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...
November 01, 2019
This presentation covers a case study delivered by Dr. Anita Friis Sommer, detailing the LEGO Group's Agile transformation journey. LEGO Group launched this transformation of its corporate digital...
October 09, 2019
Due to the inherent uncertainties involved in creating new products, it is difficult to predict how long a given project will take. R&D organizations may become complacent when launch targets are...
Tuesday January 02, 2018
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1How do you stimulate education, creativity, and innovative thinking across an entire nation? In the 1880s, in a country just emerging from the destruction of the Civil War, one answer was to build...
April 28, 2015
Innovation Culture ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data This ROR is examining how culture within an organization can impact the level of innovation coming from it. This working group hypothesizes...
October 15, 2014
Large companies have been able to grow by becoming proficient at developing products in their core for existing customers in known markets. Increasingly companies have sought new growth opportunities...
October 15, 2014
Innovation Culture ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data This ROR is examining how culture within an organization can impact the level of innovation coming from it. This working group hypothesizes...
2005 - 2008 Deliverables Technology Value Program Description Often referred to as the “metrics” team, this team spent several years enhancing the Technology Value Program (TVP). TVP is a tool to...
February 25, 2015
ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data This ROR is examining how culture within an organization can impact the level of innovation coming from it. This working group hypothesizes that there is not...
June 27, 2016
A Case Study of AmorePacific's Cushion Foundation The locus of innovation can be found in either the core or the peripheral components of a product. Most innovation literature has focused on...
March 07, 2017
Investment in innovation training has the potential to help firms create more successful product offerings, but the extent to which companies do innovation training is unknown. Although efforts to...
January 01, 2004
Industrial innovation is becoming more open, requiring changes in how firms manage innovation. External sources of knowledge become more prominent, while external channels to market also offer...
November 01, 2017
The best ideas are often borrowed. For example, the Dyson vacuum was inspired by cyclone separators used in sawmills to remove sawdust from air, the STRiDA folding bike repurposes the mechanics of...
May 18, 2018
At our organization, the process of creating safety data sheets (SDS’s) takes a long time and can be very complicated. We are interested in benchmarking with your organization regarding SDS cycle...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence; in machine learning, computers learn patterns from data. It is a transformative technology for the business world. But currently,...