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Process Improvement

Community Forum - What tools do you use for innovation programs?
April 02, 2021
The innovation management tools market offers technologies that help organizations streamline operations for their innovation programs. Most products offer similar core capabilities around ideation,...
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  • Process Improvement
Community Forum - How does your organization track time and resources? Pt. 2
December 07, 2020
This is the second portion of the survey that was initially sent two weeks ago. Most approaches to portfolio management require some way of inputting the effort hours spent on a project. Some...
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Community Forum - How does your organization track time and resources?
November 23, 2020
Most approaches to portfolio management require some way of inputting the effort hours spent on a project. Some companies require employees to report their time and attribute it to projects, others...
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RTM - What Machine Learning Can Learn from Foresight A Human-Centered Approach
January 01, 2019
Machine learning applications in business that return forecasts or predictions of future market or consumer behavior must pay attention to nontechnical aspects of how those forecasts are created and...
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Community Forum - What is your cost per project for early stage discovery?
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...
  • Community Forum
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  • Finance
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Metrics/Finance
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2018 Annual Conference - The Future of Innovation is Fewer Ideas
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...
  • Audio/Video
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  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
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RTM - Supplier Innovation Push
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...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Process Improvement
  • Open Innovation
Networks - ETN - ILN - NBDN - Framing the Front End of Innovation for R&D Technologists
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...
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Networks - ETN - 7 Keys to Unlock More and Faster Breakthroughs
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...
  • Networks
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  • External Relations
  • Leverage External Resources
  • New Product Development
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Member Summit 2017 - Product Design for Mass Customization
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...
  • Presentation
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  • Commercialization/Marketing
  • Management
  • New Business Development
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RTM - Developing Novel Catalysts with Six Sigma
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...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
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  • Process Improvement
  • New Product Development
2017 Annual Meeting - Lean Start-Up
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...
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  • IRI Research
  • Process Improvement
  • New Product Development
2017 Annual Meeting - Assessing the Value of User Experience Design in R&D
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...
  • Presentation
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  • Process Improvement
  • Alliances/Collaborations
Brown Bag - Leveraging Lean Principles in R&D
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...
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  • Management
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  • Culture
Community Forum - Organizational Support for R&D
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...
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  • Workforce capability
  • Organization
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  • Risk Management
Community Forum - Benchmarking Industry Best Practices
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...
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