A metric related to Management Support that provides an anchored scale evaluation of the degree to which management champions step forward to provide special support to individual projects or project teams.
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2004 - 2006 Deliverables RTM article , "Harnessing External Technology for Innovation", May/June 2006 Description This Working Group (#04-1) examined various business models by comparing and...
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March 01, 2005
Although most managers will agree that innovation can be the passport to wealth creation, many of their actual business practices and behaviors fail to support the activities crucial to value...
May 27, 2014
Demonstrating and Improving the Value of R&D Anne Marie Knott, PhD, Professor of Strategy, Olin Business School, Washington University Historically R&D has been the engine of both corporate...
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 06, 2018
Companies and universities continue to seek effective strategies for maximizing the benefit from partnerships. This session - both presentation and discussion - will discuss some of the contemporary...
Initiated: Fall 2017 Expected completion: mid-2019 Final report out presentation at the 2019 IRI Annual Conference Value proposition “[T]hose most able to learn from failed experiences will be those...
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...
October 05, 2017
The search for emerging and impactful technologies tend to rely on some combination of patent literature, scientific literature, and/or trade literature as the basis for discovery. Each of these...
The pros and cons of shared service centers.
April 13, 2012
Today’s younger generation are wired different from their predecessors. Those born between 1977 – 1997, the ‘net generation’ or Generation Y, have a natural ability for all things digital that often...
Purpose & Summary The Director, External Innovation leads the external research & development for (COMPANY). This role is expected to gain competitive customer value by accessing thought...
June 29, 2017
For his leadership in managing IBM’s global research organization to produce outstanding research and advanced technology; for effectively charging his team with urgency in moving research-developed...
November 08, 2011
Is Your R&D Culture Aligned with the Changing Needs of Your Employees? David Horsup, PhD, Vice President of R&D, Energy Services, Nalco Company Today’s younger generation are wired different...
October 04, 2017
FORT WORTH, TX (October 4, 2017) – Biomimicry, the emulation of biology in product and service design, is gaining popularity among R&D leaders. Emily Kennedy, Director of External Relations for...