March 01, 2007
Reflect back briefly on what was considered good manufacturing management circa 1960 and what we expect today. Prior to the quality movement, manufacturing operations were based heavily on intuition...
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Portfolio Management
Monday October 02, 2017 8:30am – 5:00pm
Learn to shape the strategic and financial goals of your company by using compelling and actionable portfolio analysis to influence corporate decision-makers.
June 03, 2016
Finding opportunities for growth is essential but it’s also incredibly challenging. Traditional methods of filling the innovation pipeline - from internal brainstorming to segment-by-segment market...
May 24, 2016
Ensure executive engagement to transform trends into traction The success of your innovation efforts dictates your long term chances for corporate success. Whatever innovation model your company...
May 06, 2016
Many companies know that they must have a portfolio of innovation candidates; a few understand that the deliverables from that portfolio should be approximately 70% Core, 20% Adjacent and 10%...
November 01, 2008
Sophisticated portfolio management tools have been developed and implemented to maximize the value of existing projects in the later phases of drug development. However, the almost equally cost-...
September 01, 2008
Portfolio planning involves five basic tasks: identifying current as well as future gaps in the portfolio relative to the firm's overall business strategy, striking a balance between strengthening...
September 01, 2008
This special issue of Research-Technology Management features six invited articles on the linkages and relationships between R&D and the business strategy. The readers of RTM are aware of the...
April 01, 2008
Although we live in a rapidly evolving world, many of the changes associated with this evolution can be anticipated with the proper analysis. Typically, significant social, economic and political...
July 01, 2009
In today’s competitive environment, the ability of an organization to innovate is paramount. While most organizations have fl ashes or spurts of innovation, only a handful have been able to innovate...
May 01, 2009
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are fuzzy graph structures that represent causal reasoning. This article proposes a means of building and using such maps to support the managers as well as analysts of R&D...
November 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: An innovation portfolio, which is focused on early-stage ideas whose role in the overall strategy is still evolving, is very different from a project portfolio, which is focused on managing...
March 01, 2010
Many of the tools used in valuing and selecting projects are justifiably applicable only to large portfolios because they assess value by using statistical concepts, such as probability, mean and...
January 01, 2010
During the first half of 2009, the Research & Technology Executive Council of the Corporate Executive Board interviewed and surveyed R&D executives ( 1 ) from over 100 global companies ( 2 )...
January 01, 2010
Although the world has changed drastically in the past year, the need for businesses to invent products that people want and are willing to pay for has not changed. At The Dow Chemical Company, this...
2003 - 2005 Deliverables Complete portfolio evaluation and maturity assessment tools and provide feedback in the form of Special Interest Sessions in November 05 along with Journal Articles and...