January 01, 2015
As Executive Director of Global R&D at General Motors, Gary Smyth leads the effort to define the future of the personal transportation industry. View full article or download PDF http://www...
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January 01, 2015
In his famous diaries, Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century London author, described his daily repast: Each morning he would break his fast with a pint of beer or ale. At mid-day, he would lunch on meat,...
January 01, 2015
We are, as a culture, obsessed with innovation—as a national characteristic, as an economic engine, as a certain guarantor of national and corporate leadership—if we can only find the formula to...
January 01, 2015
Results from the Industrial Research Institute’s Annual Survey IRI’s 2014 trends survey results reveal a flat outlook for 2015. Each year, typically in August and September, the Industrial Research...
January 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Drawing on a case study at Ubisoft, a major creative firm in the videogame industry, this article shows how a firm can nurture and engage with its knowing communities to fuel the front end...
January 01, 2015
Adrian Slywotzky talks with Jim Euchner about profit models and what it takes to create a good business design. Adrian Slywotzky has been studying what makes great business designs for years. His...
January 05, 2015
News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene NIH Startup Challenge Offers Model for Commercializing Federal Technology; Fusing Europe’s Energy Research; Postdocs in Limbo; Li-Fi Lighting the Way...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition An evaluation of overall climate in an R&D organization, especially the extent to which it is...
An evaluation of the intellectual property management within an organization via four-stage interval rating scale.
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition A measure of the recruitment, development, evaluation, and rewarding of R&D personnel via an...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Description The state of creativity and innovation within an organization measured via an interval rating scale...
The quality of environmental management in the R&D function measured via a stage/interval self assessment framework.
An assessment of the technology plan and the technology planning process.
A characterization of the breadth and depth of the new product pipeline.
Measures of the degree to which a formal decision process is applied at project decision gates, and the effectiveness of the decision process itself.
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition Actual project costs with respect to budgets on an annual, longer-range, or cumulative basis. The cost...