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—...
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Process Improvement
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...
March 01, 2006
“Eliminating defects†is difficult in R&D because the work defies systematic improvement. In the workshops of the Industrial Research Institute’s Six Sigma in R&D Project, dozens of...
May 01, 2007
The theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ) is a widely accepted methodology of inventive concept generation that emphasizes predictive methods and evolutionary trends. Strategic inventing is a...
November 09, 2016
This discussion is about innovation--about the conditions under which innovation and invention happen. I have a few thoughts on this, from my time at Google, DARPA, IBM, and MCI. True breakthrough...
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...
April 01, 2008
The so-called fuzzy front end would seem to be the stage of innovation least suited to the use of information systems and technology, tools usually applied to repeatable processes and those amenable...
September 01, 2009
Leaders regularly need more from their innovation investment while technology and marketing groups are already stretched too far. Although the typical response to this dilemma is to add process (and...
March 13, 2013
New Business Development Network presentation on methods of screening, metrics, and idea generation.
September 16, 2013
What is lean innovation? Lean is an efficient product development process. But, lean is also about doing right things not just doing them more efficiently. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/...
September 16, 2013
What does “fuzzy front end†mean to you? Is being “Fuzzy†a good thing or a bad thing in the front end of innovation? https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentations/21951...
2007 - 2010 Deliverables Report out, Annual Meeting 2009 Description Literature is rich with information on single portfolios, but is “lean†when describing management practices for managing a group...
May 06, 2011
Join James Euchner, Editor, Research-Technology Management , to discuss “The Practice of Innovation: Innovation as the Management of Constraints,†published in the March-April 2011 issue of RTM...
May 24, 2011
Accelerating Implementation: Beyond Stage Gate Can we improve upon stage gate by drawing upon spiral development, TRL or other tools? What are the faster ways to go from proof of concept to...