November 09, 2016
Lessons from IARPA's Research Programs OVERVIEW: The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) is a research arm of the US intelligence community. IARPA research programs are undertaken...
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November 09, 2016
This discussion is about innovation--about the conditions under which innovation and invention happen. I have a few thoughts on this, from my time at Google, DARPA, IBM, and MCI. True breakthrough...
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...
March 01, 2006
Setting the level of R&D spending is one of the most important strategic decisions made by top management of technology-based firms. The delay between the commitment to expenditure for R&D...
March 01, 2006
Product innovation and supply chain process innovation efforts have traditionally been managed as separate activities. Today, collaborative innovation approaches seek to integrate them. The effect is...
July 01, 2006
Although project prioritization is widely used for analyzing portfolios, there is often a bias toward considering only quantitative criteria. This fails to account for such key considerations as...
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...
March 07, 2017
This column is the latest in a series of discussions aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to take on the profession’s terms of art, exploring their origins and...
May 01, 2015
We all know the future is important to our professions, our organizations, and our personal lives. Many of us are fascinated by emerging social trends, technology and research breakthroughs, or...
November 01, 2012
Energy in all its forms—oil, natural gas, coal, wood, wind, solar, hydropower, nuclear, geothermal, and bio-derived fuels—is required on a massive scale to drive economic progress and improve...
October 10, 2017
With its promise to deliver access to an ‘on demand’ crowd of skilled professionals, the concept of liquid talent, or a liquid workforce, is gaining in popularity. The model, however, comes with a...
September 17, 2017
This study explores the concept of big data and whether, and to what extent, it might affect R&D management in the future. Through extensive discussions to dissect the nature of big data and to...
November 01, 1990
An accurate understanding of why new products succeed or fail is vital to improving new product performance; If the keys to success are descriptors of the product, market, technology, or their...
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...
May 14, 2018
Leave it to Emmanuel Macron to rock the boat. After launching his movement to win the French presidency, the ambitious politician has floated an idea to spur innovation in Europe, one that would see...
May 14, 2018
When I wrote “Effective Strategies to Catch Up in the Era of Globalization” in 2011, I wanted to report a research finding that I believed very important: that globalization was posing huge...