September 30, 2019
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Strategic Planning
October 16, 2019
The panel will explore themes under the umbrella of digital operations, including: The ability for digital and physical assets to deliver intelligent and personal user experiences through digital...
October 22, 2019
The three panelists will discuss leadership challenges from their own perspectives as they face digital transformation in their own organizations and industries. Featuring: Kathy Fish, Chief...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session We can view innovation like a blindfolded bow hunter, with an endless supply of ideas in his quiver that he hurls in random directions hoping to strike game. Or, we could determine...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Horizon scanning to identify important rising technologies and trends is a critical need for organizations. Companies must understand what will disrupt their product portfolios to...
June 05, 2018
Design for service is critical to Rolls-Royce’s Advanced Services Transformation Roadmap. Harrison, the company’s chief of life cycle engineering, will outline how Rolls-Royce is integrating a unique...
May 14, 2018
When I wrote “Effective Strategies to Catch Up in the Era of Globalization†in 2011, I wanted to report a research finding that I believed very important: that globalization was posing huge...
March 08, 2018
Marco Iansiti talks with Jim Euchner about digital hubs, the platforms at the heart of them, and how to compete in emerging digital ecosystems. Marco Iansiti studies ecosystem strategy at the Harvard...
November 01, 2017
Incumbent firms face steep challenges in dealing with technological change and associated innovation streams. The firm’s senior leadership team, and especially R&D leadership, plays a central...
November 01, 2017
Viv Goldstein is Global Director of Innovation Acceleration at GE, an organization that is transforming itself to be successful in a world of rapid change, a world being revolutionized by the...
October 05, 2017
Research shows that more than half of companies are not killing products early enough in the commercialization process. This activity, while challenging, is necessary for a healthy product portfolio...
October 10, 2017
The goal of this ROR has been to discover best practices for establishing a long-term vision for R&D that is tied to business strategies and how to use this vision to influence the strategy and...
May 01, 2004
Translation of strategy into new product initiatives is the focus of this second of three articles reporting the results of the most recent American Productivity and Quality Center study on...
May 01, 2004
As a result of recent accounting rule changes and the enforcement implications of the Sarbanes Oxley legislation, fair market value of intellectual property (IP) is now reported in greater detail on...
May 01, 2004
Managers choosing which R&D projects to fund typically rely on rank-ordering heuristics when other valuation methods are not applicable. These heuristics are powerful, but they have a number of...
March 01, 2004
One of the biggest challenges facing the United Kingdom Royal Mail and other service organizations is how to maximize the value of its investments in technology, driven by increasing global...