1998 - 2001 Deliverables Presentation in a Special Interest Session at the 2001 IRI Annual Meeting. Description Objective: develop a technique to help align a company's technology portfolio and its...
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New Business Development
March 15, 2013
Overview of Eastman approaches to idea generation and development.
March 13, 2013
Innovation categories and models for open innovation.
2008 - 2014 Deliverables Report out Member Summit 2014 Additional Reading: Business Models Outside the Core, RTM, Volume 58, Issue 2 2015 Description Innovation outside of the core provides an...
February 18, 2013
What effect does disruptive innovation have on companies who innovate top quality brands and then lower prices as they scale up? http://iriwebblog.org/2013/02/18/disruptive-innovation-a-fatal-illness...
How you do you structure your business development function? Can someone provide me with a typical organization management structure/chart for a business development or revenue generation function...
How do you spot the BIG opportunities? What operating rhythm, processes, & metrics do you employ to preferentially identify, generate, AND screen BIG new opportunities in the early stages of the...
September 01, 2012
OVERVIEW : Governments worldwide are under pressure to reduce spending, and yet the demand for public services is generally increasing. Despite growing emphasis on and investment in technological...
March 01, 2015
The big digital innovation story of the last couple of years has been the rise of the sharing economy. In the sharing economy, individuals rent out resources they’re not using, via a set of apps that...
March 01, 2015
In previous columns, I’ve written about the importance of vision and seeing over the horizon to anticipate future needs, and of the power of storytelling to help identify nonobvious needs. Recently,...
April 28, 2015
Opportunity for New Types of Jobs to be Created Due to Innovations in Additive Manufacturing, Design and Funding Seattle, WA (April 28, 2015)— The democratization of manufacturing is well underway...