January 01, 2004
Industrial innovation is becoming more open, requiring changes in how firms manage innovation. External sources of knowledge become more prominent, while external channels to market also offer...
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May 01, 2004
Translation of strategy into new product initiatives is the focus of this second of three articles reporting the results of the most recent American Productivity and Quality Center study on...
May 01, 2004
The Future of Competition: Co-Creating Unique Value with Customers by C. K. Prahalad, Venkat Ramaswamy Ihis book challenges the traditional (and fundamental) notion of value and its creation, namely...
September 17, 2017
Digitalization and Its Implications for R&D Management is an IRI Research platform established to consider the likely impacts of three distinct sets of digitalization technologies—virtual...
November 01, 2017
The best ideas are often borrowed. For example, the Dyson vacuum was inspired by cyclone separators used in sawmills to remove sawdust from air, the STRiDA folding bike repurposes the mechanics of...
January 01, 2003
The specific ways in which companies organize the relationship between central R&D and the business units vary considerably, this study shows. In the External Partnership Model, the CRD group...
January 01, 2002
Growth-oriented companies frequently identify attractive business development opportunities that lie in markets new to them and require new product/technology capabilities. Successfully capturing...
January 01, 2019
A bibliometric study of Research-Technology Management (RTM), conducted for the 20-year period 1998–2017,examined citations, authors, industry sectors, and topics for 550 articles published during...
March 01, 2019
After facilitating a strategy retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I had six hours before my flight to hike in the Grand Tetons National Park. For my first visit ever to the park, I consulted the...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Innovation leaders face the challenge of planning for their organizations’ future in a time of technological and economic upheaval; the rapid emergence and proliferation of intelligent...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence; in machine learning, computers learn patterns from data. It is a transformative technology for the business world. But currently,...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Are you standing there waiting for the AI tsunami to hit you and wipe you out, or are you riding the big wave? Professional surfers spend 10–20 times as much time watching waves as they do...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Systems with a general intelligence similar to, and perhaps even greater than, that of human beings. Kurzweil (1999) contrasted “narrow AI” with “strong AI,” using the former to refer to...
July 01, 2019
Fintech is fast becoming a global phenomenon, led by innovators and followed closely by academics, and now drawing the attention of regulators. Broadly, fintech is an umbrella term for innovative...
March 01, 2020
Clay Christensen (1952–2020) was a giant in the field of innovation. The Innovator’s Dilemma remains one of the best books on innovation that I have ever read. It is both theoretically rigorous and...
May 01, 2020
Online-based retailers have made competing in the physical retail industry increasingly challenging. Building strong experiences to differentiate from the online-based players is key to survival...