Initiated: Spring 2020 Expected completion: Fall 2021 Kick off webinar Quick pitch To learn more, contact Lee Green. Value Proposition If you were offered a choice between two lotteries, one where...
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March 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Is it necessary or even possible to apply the management technology of open innovation to all projects in the same way? An analysis of the practices used in different product development...
May 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Living labs are innovation infrastructures within which software companies and research organizations collaborate with lead users and early adopters in creating participative strategies to...
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May 01, 2012
On the night of October 9, 1604, Italian citizens recorded their astonishment that the universe had changed for the first time in centuries. As they looked to the night sky, they found a new star had...
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...
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.
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...
The pros and cons of shared service centers.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...