July 01, 2017
This paper describes LG Chem Research Park’s process of transforming a large, closed R&D center into a collaborative organization. Experiments with open innovation intermediaries unveiled...
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Culture
July 01, 2017
What does an innovation career look like? For many, it is part of a career in R&D. For others, it is just a stop on the way to a marketing or product development career. Sometimes it starts as a...
March 01, 2004
When organizations were structured along rigid, functional lines, the manager was typically the “most expert†in his or her group, having advanced through the ranks to a leadership position. Today,...
January 01, 2004
Business and economic realities have driven GE's R&D for 111 years. Its funding model has been an important driver of these realities, most recently with research focused on helping businesses to...
January 01, 2004
We seem to be fast approaching a bottleneck in post-genomics R&D, brought on by the difficulties inherent in the process of “target validation.†One way to speed up the tedious work of target...
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
Sustainable growth—the creation of shareholder and societal values while reducing environmental impacts along entire value chains—is not a choice but a requirement for successful businesses in the...
May 10, 2017
Explore the challenges incumbent firms face in dealing with technological change and associated innovation streams. Dr. Tushman focuses on the role of the senior team, with particular reference to R...
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...
May 01, 2017
Organizational and corporate culture clearly play a role in innovation effectiveness, but little work has been done to explore the exact nature of that relationship. To address that gap, the IRI...
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 07, 2017
As a form of crowdsourcing, idea competitions offer a mechanism to engage larger groups in innovation activities. While much of the literature on crowdsourcing focuses on idea competitions that cross...
March 07, 2017
Where do you live? By this, I mean where do you spend your time? I realized recently that many of the people who coexist with me in my physical world actually live in different places. I spend much...
January 20, 2017
I was at Apple’s Advanced Technology Group in the 1990s, a most exciting time in technology. In addition to many advances in technology and human-machine interfaces, the Internet was taking hold, web...
January 12, 2017
Five Regional Meetings held across the country in 2016 all focused on the single topic of "Commercializing New Technology."
March 01, 2005
Organizations must be innovative all across the value chain, not just in R&D, in order to succeed in today’s rapidly changing economic environment. Over the past two years, an Industrial Research...