January 01, 2011
I’m a longtime fan of the New York Times crossword puzzle; I rarely miss a day, and completing a Saturday puzzle is cause for a small celebration. Over the years, at conferences and on flights, I’ve...
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March 07, 2017
As a form of crowdsourcing, idea competitions offer a mechanism to engage larger groups in innovation activities. While much of the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on idea competitions that cross...
Opening Keynote: Driving Motorola Solutions’ Digital Transformation with Innovation through Data Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office Paul Steinberg, Senior...
March 07, 2017
A counterculture is a subculture whose values, ethos, and aspirations differ substantially from those of the mainstream. When the oppositional ideas of a counterculture reach a critical mass and...
September 17, 2017
As a senior program manager for Lockheed Martin’s Revolutionary Technology Programs, Charles Chase oversees high-risk, high-reward projects. Step 1: Logged in IRI Members click here for credential...
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...
July 01, 2013
It is perhaps a tautology to say that innovation is change management. By definition, innovation is giving something new to the world, and accepting something new requires some level of change. We...
March 01, 2005
This handbook surveys what innovation is, how it is measured, developed and managed, and how it affects individuals, companies, societies, and the world at large. The editor, a professor at the...
March 01, 2014
In the last several decades, we have become much better at doing things right. Well-understood project management tools help companies manage schedule, cost, and requirements; program management...
May 14, 2018
China’s seemingly endless supply of cheap labor made it the factory for the world in past decades. Today, as the country seeks to remake itself, from a maker of products created elsewhere to an...
July 18, 2018
China’s seemingly endless supply of cheap labor made it the factory for the world in past decades. Today, as the country seeks to remake itself, from a maker of products created elsewhere to an...
May 02, 2017
Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid This column is the latest in a series of discussions aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to take on the profession’s terms...
September 01, 2009
I am pleased to assume the role of Editor in Chief of Research-Technology Management with this issue. As an industrial researcher and then manager of research and development organizations, I have...
January 11, 2016
Progress in any field happens in fits and starts. That’s as true in innovation as anywhere else. Often, a best practice emerges because it has demonstrated the potential to significantly improve a...
September 17, 2017
Blockchain, digital twins, digital familiars, digital business platforms, digital currencies—all complex, arcane, and even magical-seeming inventions—are being conceived by a counterculture of...
July 01, 2017
Gina O’Connor and her colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally School of Management have studied breakthrough innovation inside corporations for many years. In Radical Innovation (2000...