Can you recommend a consultant who can assess our overall R&D investment? I am looking for some guidance/recommendations for consulting firms to complete an "optimized state" for our current...
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What Metrics Do You Use for Open Innovation? How does your organization specify Open Innovation metrics and measure key performance indicators? Do you relate the OI Metric as percentage of net sales...
How is your R&D investment split between projects focused on Growth, Competitiveness, and Sustaining? Do you track this as part of your R&D Portfolio analysis? If so, and you are comfortable...
How do you choose which conferences to attend? We receive many invitations to conferences and meetings that offer value, but attending all of them would be impossible. Do you have any mechanisms for...
Can you help with Life Cycle Analyses? We are interested in gaining expertise on Life Cycle Analyses and methodologies. Do you have any information or recommendations for training, courses,...
January 12, 2018
Does your company struggle with getting the correct allocation of resources across the portfolio? One aspect of portfolio management is how to spread your resource across the various R&D time...
September 16, 2013
IBM's Lorraine Herger discusses IBM's global technology outlook, technology adoption program, crowdsourcing for products and a crowdsource tool to solve customer problems. https://www.pathlms.com/iri...
September 04, 2018
Innovation comes with many iterations and discovery, especially when exploring early stage technology. We’d like to know how companies allocate their resources for such early stage projects along...
May 01, 2005
Most managers recognize that time-to-market practices provide benefits for their organizations, but few have considered all available TTM strategies. Further, little research has been done into the...
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...
August 16, 2017
What is Your Vitality Index? Vitality Index (new product revenues as a percent of total revenues) is a common metric used to show the innovation effectiveness of an R&D organization. Two IRI...
November 30, 2018
One of the most commonly reported innovation metrics is R&D spending as a percent of sales. However, it’s not always clear what expenses are counted towards that total. Your participation in this...
March 01, 2007
2007 is Research–Technology Management’s 50th year of publication. To mark the occasion, each issue reprints one of RTM’s six most frequently referenced articles. The articles were identified by N...
What portion of researcher time and spend is used for ideation? What portion of R&D researcher time and spend is used for IDEATION? Do you have any data on typical time and spend that you would...
May 25, 2016
Breakout Session Technology forecasts are important to the allocation of investment capital and if accurate can be a bellwether for the disruptive innovation needed to fuel growth. Accordingly,...
July 01, 2015
Managers tend to pick a strategy that is least likely to fail rather than picking a strategy that is most efficient. The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.” This...