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Opening Keynote: Driving Motorola Solutions’ Digital Transformation with Innovation through Data Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office Paul Steinberg, Senior...
Monday September 26, 2016 1:30pm – 2:30pm
Mark Little, former CTO, GE Global Research, and Andrea Kates, CEO, GLIDR, discuss the tools, techniques and culture changes that GE has adopted to accelerate their R&D.
May 25, 2016
Breakout Session Despite a vast history of research on training in organizations, very little research exists with regards to innovation training. During this session you will hear what 40 senior R...
May 25, 2016
IRI's 2016 Medalist discusses the conditions needed for innovation to happen and participates in lively audience Q&A. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/558/video_presentations/...
September 01, 2008
The importance of identifying and fostering corporate “capabilities†has been confused with creating competencies. Competencies are unique products or services, often created in the R&D labs,...
July 01, 2008
You are director of a research and development lab that has been key to your company’s success. But times are tough, and top management is on a cost-cutting crusade. Your boss tells you that although...
July 01, 2008
The lesson from this research into covert research—also known as “bootleggingâ€â€”is clear: do not even try to organize the early stages of innovation through formal processes. Interviews at 70 European...
January 01, 2008
Managers in R&D need to take a more active role in helping their corporations to find new market applications and develop business plans for realizing value from those applications. Often it is...
September 01, 2009
Hsinchu Science Park (HSP) is Taiwan’s high-tech center. Its 400 technology companies accounted for 10% of Taiwan’s gross domestic product in 2007 when we undertook this study of the education and...
July 01, 2009
Creating breakthrough innovations requires alignment of both marketing and R&D processes within organizations. In a study aimed at determining the most effective practices for developing...
January 01, 2009
How to achieve a sustained competitive advantage that ensures long-term survival has become a major concern for managers of any company, but especially for managers of small and medium-sized firms...
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: How to achieve a sustained competitive advantage that ensures long-term survival has become a major concern for managers of any company, but especially for managers of small and medium-...
November 01, 2010
At intervals throughout the year, chief technology officers (CTOs) of large research and development departments across industries gather for an open exchange of information and an opportunity to...
November 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: Innovation drives growth, both growth of categories and growth within businesses. For Procter & Gamble, innovation is the engine of growth, providing consumers benefits they value and...
September 01, 2010
In 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, Vijay Govindarajan and co-author Chris Trimble discuss what it takes to innovate inside established companies. He emphasizes three concepts: forgetting lessons...