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...
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Process Improvement
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session We can view innovation like a blindfolded bow hunter, with an endless supply of ideas in his quiver that he hurls in random directions hoping to strike game. Or, we could determine...
March 01, 2018
Timing Strategies and Best Practices A number of motivating and moderating factors influence suppliers’ decisions to involve customers in the innovation process. Suppliers pushing innovations to...
October 05, 2017
Why is innovating today different and require new mindsets for R&D and cross functional teams? Why is the front end of innovation different? Clients – particularly R&D leaders/teams - express...
October 05, 2017
What happens when your Front End Innovation market and technology scouts encounter an external product, technology, IP, and/or supplier suitable for growth in your core adjacency platforms? How does...
October 10, 2017
This research effort has focused on the product design implications of mass customization on manufacturers/producers. Customer demand for individually configured and customized products is on the...
January 01, 2004
Six Sigma, a business process developed at Motorola in the early 1980s, dramatically improves customer satisfaction from products and services by reducing defects during manufacture. Design for Six...
May 10, 2017
IRI Research Project 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 uncertainty in the...
May 10, 2017
Express Learning Our world is characterized by increasing social, technological and business disruption. Amidst this turmoil, traditional innovation processes do not have the agility required to...
May 05, 2017
The experience of The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company shows how applying Lean principles to R&D can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of new product development. Join author Norbert...
The research & development activities of our company support a very mature chemical process industry. One support group focuses on developing conceptual process designs to help researchers...
March 27, 2017
Sonoco is currently in the process of updating dashboard metrics to track progress against innovation goals for the company. We would like to get feedback on what priority metrics your company tracks...
March 07, 2017
Lean principles—a set of philosophies and approaches derived from Japanese management practices that focus on providing optimum value to the customer by eliminating waste and streamlining processes—...
May 01, 2005
Surprisingly little empirical information is available to help laboratory managers attract and retain productive R&D workers. Most employee attitude surveys do not focus on the specific...
November 01, 2006
Technology development projects are the foundation or platform for new products and new processes and thus are vital to the prosperity of the modern corporation. But these basic research or...
July 01, 2006
A study of the strategic transformation of Samsung’s corporate R&D center (SAIT) shows how the R&D center transformed its organization and processes to align the company’s business units for...