September 25, 2011
On April 18, 1955, Albert Einstein, the world’s most famous scientist, passed away. The mystique around his intelligence was so great that the doctor performing the autopsy gave special attention to...
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November 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Innovation is essential to success in today’s world. Many companies have strong R&D departments, but sometimes the greatest innovations come from those who know the company and its...
Do you have a PPM success story? I am interesting in reading some success stories from companies that have been able to make significant improvements in the integrity of data in their project...
January 01, 2010
During the first half of 2009, the Research & Technology Executive Council of the Corporate Executive Board interviewed and surveyed R&D executives ( 1 ) from over 100 global companies ( 2 )...
July 01, 2010
Since Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation (2003), the paradigm he described has been a subject of great interest and experimentation in corporations. Chesbrough defined open innovation as...
September 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: Open innovation (OI) has become a mainstream organizational process. Firms are establishing OI groups, allocating budgets, and measuring results. In this article, we identify twelve “good...
September 01, 2010
As of this writing, and after 88 days of concerted effort, the oil spill at the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico has been capped, at least temporarily stopping an...
Friday November 04, 2016 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Hear a recent OI success story -- the Corning OLED-Works Lighting Without a Bulb contest -- and how NineSigma's problem definition methodology was applied to achieve a successful outcome.
September 01, 2010
Open innovation (OI) has become a mainstream organizational process. Firms are establishing OI groups, allocating budgets, and measuring results. In this article, we identify twelve “good practices”...
March 01, 2009
As a research/technology manager, you are being challenged to lead technical professionals to achieve significant innovation. That’s not the same as being a manager or an expert. In this Human Side...
July 01, 2009
In today’s competitive environment, the ability of an organization to innovate is paramount. While most organizations have fl ashes or spurts of innovation, only a handful have been able to innovate...
July 01, 2008
Competitor analysis is critical to strategy formulation and implementation. Firms are able to develop and deploy better strategies if their competitors’ responses can be analyzed or even predicted...
September 01, 2008
Technology executives are increasingly being called upon to find innovation opportunities along the technological frontier. To do this properly, they need a special kind of technological knowledge—...
January 05, 2015
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene NIH Startup Challenge Offers Model for Commercializing Federal Technology; Fusing Europe’s Energy Research; Postdocs in Limbo; Li-Fi Lighting the Way...
March 01, 2015
EU Axes Top Scientific Advisor; Detroit Research Institute Reflects Growth of National Manufacturing Innovation Network; A Global Look at Young Scientists; 4D Printing Transforms Product Design. View...
November 01, 2015
Europe’s Grand Digital Catch-Up Plan; A Call for Investment in Basic Research; Global Mining at the Edge of Transformation; What Would Nature Do? The Rise of Biomimicry. View full article or download...