January 01, 2007
Continuity and change will mark the rubbery boundaries of a manager’s work life 50 years from now. Information technologies will facilitate and improve the handling of such issues as education and...
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May 01, 2007
China has become one of the most desired locations in which to do R&D. However, it has little innovation of its own, and intellectual property protection is weak. This raises questions: Is China...
September 01, 2007
Mr. Darcy is the perfect dog: a two-year-old male Black Lab with boundless happy energy. He camps out by the glass kitchen door, and when a squirrel walks by outside, he snaps to attention and barks...
November 01, 2007
Reflecting continued profit growth in 2006, industry investment in R&D accelerated last year in the United States and many other nations. Table 1 shows that the top100 U.S. R&D firms...
January 01, 2006
Existing methodologies offer little help in selecting among uncertain technology investments. However, Discovery Driven Planning in conjunction with Real Options Discipline allows managers to make...
July 01, 2006
“Pete Gettings,” XYZ’s personnel director was briefing “Tom Evers,” R&D vice president, on the latest, alarming, retirement statistics he had read (1). “The essence is that American companies are...
May 01, 2005
Strategic inventing is a relatively obscure approach to product development whereby products are designed with an emphasis on strategic positioning of intellectual property. Traditional R&D and...
January 20, 2017
I was at Apple’s Advanced Technology Group in the 1990s, a most exciting time in technology. In addition to many advances in technology and human-machine interfaces, the Internet was taking hold, web...
March 07, 2017
A counterculture is a subculture whose values, ethos, and aspirations differ substantially from those of the mainstream. When the oppositional ideas of a counterculture reach a critical mass and...
May 01, 2017
My grandfather was an inventor. He worked at Kodak during its golden years, where he invented a variety of still camera devices, including an early stereo-imaging camera. When I got to know him, he...
May 03, 2017
In 280 BC, a Greek general added fighting elephants to his ranks and won two battles against the Romans. But in doing so, he suffered terrible losses. Plutarch quotes him as saying, “If we are...
September 01, 2005
R&D spending by the top 320 companies in 2004 was US$ 331 billion. The R&D intensity of these global firms has decreased marginally, as there was a decrease in R&D spending by...
March 01, 2018
Available tools and frameworks can help companies ensure that sustainability is embedded as a fundamental building block of new product development. Increasingly, organizations are embedding...
May 14, 2018
China has become one of the most desired locations in which to do R&D. However, it has little innovation of its own, and intellectual property protection is weak. This raises questions: Is China...
March 01, 2019
The European Union’s €1 billion ($1.1 billion) Quantum Technologies Flagship has finally cast off; the first projects, 20 in all, were awarded €132 million in October to launch the program’s three-...
July 01, 2019
Manufacturers moving to service-based business models are generally advised to provide total-care solutions to their customers in order to boost profits and strengthen customer relationships. To...