December 21, 2020
Our organization spends a lot of money on R&D and patents. Each year, we determine how much our R&D projects and patents contribute to sales compared to previous years. We are interested in...
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Metrics/Finance
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...
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...
March 09, 2018
Companies often use new product sales (sometimes referred to as new product vitality) as a measure of R&D effectiveness. This metric is often reported as the ratio of new product sales (sales...
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...
January 04, 2018
Results from the Innovation Research Interchange’s Annual Survey After last year’s muted response, this year’s survey reveals a return of optimism. Each year, Innovation Research Interchange (IRI),...
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...
May 01, 2004
Most knowledge-intensive organizations recognize that their source of competitive advantage comes from human capital. Yet few reliable metrics exist for measuring its value. A new metric draws on...
January 01, 2004
This first of three articles reports the results of the most recent American Productivity and Quality Center study on performance and best practices in new product development. Performance results...
September 01, 2005
R&D spending by the top 320 companies in 2004 was US$ 331 billion. The R&D intensity of these global firms has decreased marginally, as there was a decrease in R&D spending by...
May 10, 2017
Express Learning R&D isn’t driving growth the way it used to--its productivity has fallen 65% over the past several years. Professor Knott conducted two NSF studies across a full spectrum of...
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 22, 2017
Ranking is just one aspect of prioritization; how do we bridge the gap between ranking and corporate priorities In this interactive discussion we’ll talk about - Choosing financial or scoring model-...
We would like to benchmark the spending and impact of front-end-innovation and R&D. In order to be competitive in the market, many companies invest in R&D for new innovative products,...
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...
November 01, 2006
Because innovation can be achieved in many ways, measuring innovativeness is difficult to do well with a single measure. One effective approach is to pair a “fixed†with a “variable†measure, that is...