May 01, 2015
As the articles in this special issue illustrate, successful culture change can re-make a company’s fortunes. It’s often easy to determine that cultural change is needed. A platform is burning, a...
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Culture
May 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: This paper describes a new business model for advancing NASA human health and performance innovations and demonstrates how open innovation, including the use of crowdsourcing and technology...
May 01, 2015
We all know the future is important to our professions, our organizations, and our personal lives. Many of us are fascinated by emerging social trends, technology and research breakthroughs, or...
May 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: This case study highlights the practical steps a 115-year-old company’s R&D organization executed to change its culture—a change that was critical in order for the R&D group to improve both speed of decision making and alignment with its business units with regard to project selection and prioritization. The scope of the cultural changes extended beyond traditional product design and development. The case study describes the communication methods the R&D organization used to change others’ perceptions of it from a corporate overhead that delivered little value to a resource necessary for the profitable growth of the enterprise. View full article or download PDF http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.5437/08956308X5803316 Volume 58, May-June 2015 Feature Article http://www.iriweb.org/TPS_script_URTM_707898.php
May 01, 2015
Changing an accepted organizational culture can feel like rolling rocks uphill. It can seem impossible to escape the inertia built up over decades of accrued behavior and entrenched beliefs. Yet an...
May 01, 2015
Whether it’s open innovation, portfolio management, or customer-centered innovation, implementing any new innovation framework often means changing an organization’s culture. This special issue...
March 01, 2015
I started my career in research as a chemist. I earned a PhD in polymer chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, and I worked for three years in research on polymer...
January 01, 2015
In his famous diaries, Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century London author, described his daily repast: Each morning he would break his fast with a pint of beer or ale. At mid-day, he would lunch on meat,...