May 01, 2006
This management framework permits integrating positioning, competencies and acquisitions in the context of a dynamic process of platform strategy. The integration method suggested is the platform-...
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May 01, 2006
If you’ve felt confused about how you should deal with diversity in your laboratories, that’s understandable, since there are at least three possible meanings of the term, and they each call for...
July 01, 2006
Science, art, or both? When it comes to successful integration of acquired employees into an established organization and culture, both references are relevant and critical to eventual success. While...
January 01, 2005
Public–private partnerships play a key role in helping the United States advance its research portfolio by bringing new ideas to meet the needs of the marketplace and the nation. They do so by...
January 01, 2005
As the United States economy sluggishly recovers from recession, the annual R&D Trends Forecast records a more favorable outlook for 2005 than has been seen in the past two years. More companies...
May 01, 2005
Despite tough talks over money and structure, the European Commission is pushing ahead with its plans to create a European Research Council (ERC) modeled on the National Science Foundation in the...
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...
March 01, 2004
The disappearance of so many corporate names over the last two decades has been both unfortunate and unnecessary. A primary cause has been the rigidity of conventional forms of organization and...
July 10, 2017
FM Global is a unique insurance company. It’s an engineering-based insurer. Our business model is based on reducing our clients’ property risk and potential for business interruption through...
May 01, 2004
Industry, Government Leaders Confront World's Innovation Needs Science policy—the ordered management of research—remains as hard to define as “industrial policy.” But research ministers and industry...
September 17, 2017
This is an optimistic issue. In it, you will read about a wide variety of ways in which digitalization will improve the practice of R&D. Ted Farrington, in his summary article, “On the Impact of...
November 01, 1988
Nearly 25 years after its initiation, 3M's technical audit system continues to provide regular internal peer reviews of laboratory activities. By this m echanism, major research programs are assessed...
January 01, 2019
The late Dean Smith, legendary head coach of the University of North Carolina basketball team, noted a common phenomenon among freshmen who were recruited into his basketball program. As star...
March 01, 2019
Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development at the Harvard Business School. In his research, he has sought to understand...
November 01, 2019
The United States has been the center of global innovation since the end of World War II. This dominance intensified with the growth of the giants of the Internet age, but it is changing as strong...
Thursday April 09, 2020 – Wednesday May 20, 2020
PILOT research projects launching this spring In the midst of chaos, innovation continues and even grows. This spring, IRI is launching four new research projects to help keep your organization...