May 01, 2013
Thanks to Eric von Hippel, the existence of the user-innovator is widely acknowledged, if still not well understood by many firms. Still, some companies are engaging with user-innovators in productive...
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March 01, 2012
The Use of Strategic Foresight Methods for Ideation and Portfolio Management OVERVIEW: Previous investigations of organizations adding breakthrough innovation capacity to already strong incremental...
March 01, 2012
Imagine this scenario: The group you lead is facing a conflict that threatens to undermine an important project for your company. You thought you had put together a team that was well balanced with...
May 01, 2012
While working to reengineer Eli Lilly’s R&D strategy for the post-blockbuster pharma market, Alph Bingham codeveloped and patented a model for an open marketplace for ideas. That idea, supported...
January 11, 2016
If there is one undeniable fact of innovation, it is this: the doers are the major thinkers. Those aren't my words. They're from the late Steve Jobs. He made that observation in a videotaped...
November 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Venture capitalists are primarily engaged in nurturing innovation in small, nimble startups. They have developed a series of screens to help identify where to invest and a set of methods to...
March 02, 2016
OVERVIEW: Technology decisions are of central importance to firms focused on innovation. Research has provided support for a wide variety of approaches to technology decision making. This...
January 01, 2010
Recessions are difficult times. Companies respond differently to them, especially in the ways that they manage R&D. Intel’s recently retired chairman, Craig Barrett, has been an outspoken...
July 01, 2009
Innovation is probably one of the most important forces fueling the growth of new products, sustaining incumbents, creating new markets, transforming industries, and promoting the global...
September 01, 2009
It is a commonplace that innovation requires risk taking and that risk taking leads to failure. New product failure rates of 50 percent are not uncommon. Increasingly, corporations seek to formally...
What Deliverable is Right for Your Project? Most Common Outputs */ RTM Journal Article Tool Primer Roadmap Playbook Whitepaper Maturity Matrix or Model Consider the type of challenge your project is...
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...
March 09, 2018
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene MaryAnne M. Gobble Article The 2017...
December 11, 2018
With the unique aspects of how chemicals interface with R&D work, it provides some unique challenges in how we communicate hazards of small “lab scale” containers of chemicals/mixtures for...
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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...
August 06, 2020
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) PERSPECTIVES: NEWS & ANALYSIS FROM THE GLOBAL INNOVATION SCENE Chemical Recycling Could End Plastic...