September 05, 2019
Large corporations often face the challenge of changing themselves for a variety of reasons. The Lean Startup methodology, created to power innovation development in startups, can be applied to...
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January 01, 2020
In my last column, I explored the concept of tipping points and its importance for innovation. A tipping point is the moment when everything changes—when a cultural change or a technology or an idea...
March 01, 2020
Paul Daugherty talks with Jim Euchner about a new paradigm for collaborative work between people and intelligent systems. For decades computing technologies have helped make work more efficient...
May 01, 2020
More and more firms are looking to megatrends to try to ascertain an unfolding future and plan strategy for the long term. The idea seems to be to take a megatrend, find a subtrend within it, and...
Thursday August 20, 2020 12:00pm
Jerry is currently the Vice President of Operations at INVISTA which is part of Koch Industries, one of the largest privately held companies in the United States. Jerry leads INVISTA’s Operations...
November 01, 2015
Digitalization in R&D Management: Big Data—“Big data” is a term that has become widely used and is often described but has no widely accepted defi nition. When this working group was formed as a...
January 01, 2005
The study of innovation management in established companies has led to the enunciation of process tools that, if not widely used, are well known and documented. These tools are necessary but not...
January 01, 2003
The specific ways in which companies organize the relationship between central R&D and the business units vary considerably, this study shows. In the External Partnership Model, the CRD group...
May 01, 2007
2007 is Research-Technology Management’s 50th year of publication. To mark the occasion, each issue reprints one of RTM’s six most frequently referenced articles. The articles were identified by N...
July 01, 2017
Leadership is an ongoing preoccupation for the innovation community. Every company wants to be a market leader, and many rely on innovation to provide that leadership. At the national level,...
July 01, 2000
Real options reasoning is a logic for funding projects that maximizes learning and access to upside opportunities while containing costs and downside risk. Although it has considerable advantages...
September 01, 2018
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives News and Analysis from the Global Innovation Scene MaryAnne M. Gobble From the Editor The...
November 06, 2018
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives Europe's Research Budget Grows Despite Brexit John Blau US Launches New Space Policy Peter...
March 01, 2019
After facilitating a strategy retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I had six hours before my flight to hike in the Grand Tetons National Park. For my first visit ever to the park, I consulted the...
The IRI Achievement Award, established in 1973, is given to honor outstanding accomplishment in individual creativity and innovation that contribute broadly to the development of industry and to the benefit of society.
(Develop self-assessment matrix to identify performance level of companies based on several key elements of the planning process) Addressing one of the key factors for business success of a firm, the...