September 01, 2009
The multiple and often contradictory team dynamics that arise in diverse teams present organizations with major challenges. For example, while a team’s functional diversity can help produce...
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Knowledge Management
January 01, 2009
Information–Communication Technologies (ICTs) are no longer just for internal use. Rather, in the era of open and distributed innovation, they must be leveraged by businesses and organizations to...
November 01, 2010
In the new economy, the playing field is flatter and faster. Success in any field—in industry, in education, in politics—now requires actively seeking out change and embracing it. Successful leaders...
November 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: In the new economy, the playing field is flatter and faster. Success in any field—in industry, in education, in politics—now requires actively seeking out change and embracing it...
July 01, 2016
Every new product development (NPD) team learns a unique set of lessons in solving the many problems that arise in a typical project, and it is important to ensure that these lessons are shared...
March 02, 2016
OVERVIEW: Information technology (IT) is the cornerstone of the modern new product development (NPD) process. A new generation of communication and collaboration tools has propagated into nearly all...
1998 - 2000 Deliverables RTM article 2001 " Knowledge Management in R&D ", Volume 44, issue 4, p 28-48 Description Objective: develop information to better understand knowledge management and its...
January 2016 - September 2017 This was a joint research effort with APQC . Deliverables Download the full report and case studies. Brown bag webinar: Summary of the findings Research Approach...
Knowledge management best practices.
March 13, 2013
Overview of safety and auditing apps (or lack thereof) https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentations/22774 Spring 2013
February 28, 2011
Started with the Research Question: – What is the business value of Enterprise 2.0 Software?(e.g. social networking, wikis, forums, blogs, folksonomies, rating systems.) Concluded that we need to...
February 28, 2011
Stage: New project Objectives: Identify best practices for exercising open innovation across organizations (i.e. practicing internal knowledge diffusion) Team: Co-chairs: Terry Fetterhoff (Roche),...
February 27, 2012
To demonstrate how large organizations can identify and tap into existing internal knowledge in order to accelerate innovation. Review of best practices collected at 2011 Annual Meeting working group...
February 25, 2013
ROR Stage: Report out As baby boomers approach retirement age, companies experience an increasing need to capture the knowledge of seasoned staff members before they leave the workforce. This ROR...
February 25, 2015
ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data The concept of weak ties is one of the most influential sociological concepts in the last 40 years. Weak ties refer to people we don't see frequently, those...
2011-2013 There is an emerging corporate need for knowledge management that is largely unrecognized. Many companies recognize this too late after tackit knowledge is lost to the organization. This...