What capabilities do you need to work globally? What behavioral and organizational capabilities have been successful for R&D organizations to function effectively and productively in different...
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December 08, 2020
Research-Technology Management welcomes articles that explore factors shaping the R&D and innovation workforces. The pandemic is accelerating many trends that were already in progress (for...
January 01, 2004
Outsourcing product design and innovation to independent designers and inventors can be a means of introducing new-product ideas into an organization and drawing from a larger pool of creative talent...
Wednesday September 02, 2020
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Corporate venturing (CV) is a widely accepted mechanism for incubating and developing new business within large established firms. Substantial research has been done on this subject, yet any firms...
March 08, 2018
Changing the Way New Products Are Developed Integrating Agile project management methods into a Stage-Gate system offers both opportunities and challenges. Agile development methods borrowed from the...
October 14, 2014
Keynote: Leveraging the Edge John Seely Brown, PhD, Visiting Scholar & Advisor to the Provost, University of Southern California We all know how relatively easy it is to create innovative new...
June 09, 2020
Do you ever feel like your teams are in motion, but not making progress? While big companies recognize their need to transform in response to rapidly changing markets and disruptive forces, they are...
Tuesday June 09, 2020 1:00pm
Do you ever feel like your teams are in motion, but not making progress? While big companies recognize their need to transform in response to rapidly changing markets and disruptive forces, they are...
May 18, 2020
R&D organizations often find themselves operating as internationally scattered siloes and undertake the globalization journey. This journey goes through four distinct phases with processes,...
Initiated: Spring 2021 Expected completion: Fall 2022 Quick pitch To learn more, contact Lee Green. Creativity time is time “during which employees choose what projects to work on and how to complete...
How do you protect the proprietary business processes you have developed internally? We have recently re-engineered our product development business processes and want our development teams to have...
November 06, 2018
Recognizing the significant achievements of individual innovators is a core mission of the Innovation Research Interchange (IRI). The IRI Medal, established in 1946, is presented to recognize leaders...
October 14, 2014
Weak Ties and Innovation ROR Stage: Gathering and analyzing data Weak ties refer to people we don't see frequently, those that we know only through referrals from others, or those that we share some...
September 01, 2018
Business leaders in a range of industries, from machinery and electronics to retail and insurance, agree that artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to damage their established business lines...
October 20, 2015
Bad Dog, No Biscuit: The Challenges of Doing New Things in an Established Organization Valerie Bowe, Engineering Director, Strategy and Innovation, Unisys Corporation Brittney Burchett, Software...