April 28, 2015
Weak Ties and Innovation ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data The concept of weak ties is one of the most influential sociological concepts in the last 40 years. Weak ties refer to people we don't...
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September 01, 2006
Managing R&D in a large enterprise is ultimately about achieving momentum in the marketplace. Over the last three years, The Boeing Company has developed and applied a new process for managing...
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September 01, 2005
Sustainable development has three broad goals: environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity, for both the organization and its stakeholders. In a successful sustainability...
October 20, 2015
Lean Start Up in Large Organizations ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that can enhance the stage gate process and is more suitable for...
May 24, 2016
ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that can enhance the stage gate process and is more suitable for developing products when there is high...
October 18, 2016
ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that can enhance the stage gate process and is more suitable for developing products when there is high...
May 24, 2011
Sustaining Successful New Product Innovation in an Uncertain Economy Dr. Joseph A. Miller, Jr., Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Corning, Incorporated During the past decade,...
2011 Deliverables Report out Member Summit 2011 Description This group studied best practices and approaches to find the right opportunities that lead to breakthrough innovation. This study built...
October 15, 2014
Company STEM Programs Ted Wells, Chief Strategy Officer, STEMconnector(R) Corporations are increasingly interested in investing in education in the markets where they operate. Science, Technology,...
March 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Successful innovation requires the management of multiple contexts: those of the customer, the offering itself, the business model for the offering, and the strategic aims of the hosting...
October 17, 2012
Virtual Teams Stage: gathering data The ability to assemble high performing virtual teams is essential in today’s global business environnment. This ROR identified eight key themes to explore for...
2008 - 2014 Deliverables Report out Member Summit 2014 Additional Reading: Business Models Outside the Core, RTM, Volume 58, Issue 2 2015 Description Innovation outside of the core provides an...
February 27, 2012
Collect detailed project improvement stories where stall was identified and eliminated from future development projects. Focus the ROR on what member companies do to accelerate launch of new products...
March 01, 2009
Ray Kurzweil has garnered a great deal of attention by exploring the future path of computer technologies. His books use past trends and current information to predict what the world will be like 10...
October 18, 2017
Research-Technology Management Seeks Submissions Research-Technology Management, the award-winning journal of the Innovation Research Interchange ( http://www.iriweb.org ), seeks articles that...