May 10, 2012
Reducing Waste in Front End Innovation with an Iterative Process John Farnbach, PhD, Principal, Silver Streak Partners Carla Kuesten, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Consumer Product Research, Amway...
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May 10, 2012
Adding Value to the IP Inherent in Core Products by Co-creating in Remote Markets Peter F. W. Lee, PhD, chief Executive Officer, UniServices Limited Will Charles, General Manager, Technology...
Re-Inventing Supplier Innovation Relationships 2013 - 2015 Deliverables January 2016 Brown Bag Discussion Research-Technology Management article , Volume 58 Issue 5 2015 Description This ROR group...
March 02, 2016
Dan Shapiro is a serial entrepreneur and one of the first innovators to take full advantage of new tools that lower the barriers to innovation. Shapiro invented Robot Turtles, the most successful...
January 01, 2010
Although the world has changed drastically in the past year, the need for businesses to invent products that people want and are willing to pay for has not changed. At The Dow Chemical Company, this...
2006 - 2009 Deliverables RTM Article , "Identify Your Innovation Enablers and Inhibitors", Nov-Dec 2008 Report Out Description Value Innovation means innovation across the entire value chain;...
May 01, 2009
This article describes how Raytheon was able to leverage its defense products into the emerging market for homeland security that followed 9/11, and which has since grown into a global, multi-billion...
April 01, 2008
California, the state with a long history of stimulating new science and technology, has now begun a revolution in the means of organizing the research responsible for fresh advances. The California...
September 01, 2008
In 1492, while Christopher Columbus was exploring the Atlantic Ocean in search of the Indies, Johannes Trithemius, the Abbot of Sponheim in western Germany, was struggling against the disruptive...
May 02, 2016
Business model innovation has attracted increased attention over the past five years. This is in large part due to the tremendous returns garnered by companies that have devel-oped new business...
May 24, 2016
Ensure executive engagement to transform trends into traction The success of your innovation efforts dictates your long term chances for corporate success. Whatever innovation model your company...
May 01, 2007
Disruptive innovations increasingly originate in private sector emerging growth firms—or gazelles, as they are commonly called. Unfortunately, managers of large corporations find it difficult to...
January 01, 2006
If you or any of your colleagues have ever played Devil’s Advocate (and who hasn’t?), it may give you pause that a central idea of this book is, “the Devil’s Advocate may be the biggest innovation...
September 01, 2006
Multi-project organizations must carefully balance pressures to commission new initiatives against engineering’s capacity to effectively execute the projects. Although absorbing new projects in...
January 01, 2005
Recently I helped write a proposal to a state government for a feasibility study of costly and potentially high-risk information system investment. One team member, widely respected for his clear,...
January 01, 2005
This book is about “the different kind of company” the author believes it will take to succeed in Asia’s next round of competition. Peter J. Williamson is professor of Asian business and...