September 25, 2011
Henry Chesbrough coined the term “open innovation” with the publication of his book by that title in 2003. Since that time, there has been a flurry of experimentation with different styles of open...
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November 20, 2013
Opportunity Insight to Customer Delight ROR Stage: gathering & analyzing data This ROR seeks to identify how to increase effectiveness of R&D by delighting customers. Participants explore.....
May 10, 2012
Reducing Waste in Front End Innovation with an Iterative Process John Farnbach, PhD, Principal, Silver Streak Partners Carla Kuesten, PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Consumer Product Research, Amway...
May 24, 2011
What Information Networks Reveal About Productivity: Strategies for Building Data-Driven Insight Jacomo Corbo, PhD, Partner, EVP Analytics, QuantumBlack Measuring productivity remains a notoriously...
May 25, 2011
Public Private Partnerships Paul M. Hallacher, PhD, Director, Research Program Development, Penn State University The Obama administration is aggressively pursuing the concept of regional innovation...
May 25, 2011
Transforming an enterprise? Start a movement Liam Cleaver, Director, IBM In the age of the social network (the new normal), employees expect to have a say in transformation efforts. Social media...
1998 - 2000 Deliverables RTM article 2001 " Knowledge Management in R&D ", Volume 44, issue 4, p 28-48 Description Objective: develop information to better understand knowledge management and its...
(Develop guidelines to assist the R&D manager in effectively integrating computers into their operations) Computers were beginning to play an important role for industrial R&D in the early...
1995 - 1997 Deliverables Two RTM articles: “ Determining a Project’s Probability of Success ,” John Davis, Alan R. Fusfeld, Eric F.V. Scriven, and Gary L. Tritle, May-June 2001 " Resolving...
March 01, 2010
Where a company’s new product development process is inferior to its manufacturing process, in terms of defect rate and overall effectiveness, a process called New Product Blueprinting can help its...
September 01, 2010
In 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, Vijay Govindarajan and co-author Chris Trimble discuss what it takes to innovate inside established companies. He emphasizes three concepts: forgetting lessons...
November 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: An innovation portfolio, which is focused on early-stage ideas whose role in the overall strategy is still evolving, is very different from a project portfolio, which is focused on managing...
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: How to achieve a sustained competitive advantage that ensures long-term survival has become a major concern for managers of any company, but especially for managers of small and medium-...
May 25, 2016
Customer demand for individually configured and customized products is on the rise across all industries. Companies are faced with the challenge of maintaining cost and quality while producing...
March 29, 2016
In 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, Vijay Govindarajan and co-author Chris Trimble discuss what it takes to innovate inside established companies. He emphasizes three concepts: forgetting lessons...
November 01, 2010
An innovation portfolio, which is focused on early-stage ideas whose role in the overall strategy is still evolving, is very different from a project portfolio, which is focused on managing products...