March 01, 2004
The wide range of strategic contexts in which technology roadmapping can be applied makes the technique inherently flexible. The strategic context can be described in terms of a number of dimensions...
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Strategic Planning
March 01, 2004
As many industrial organizations have learned to apply roadmapping successfully, they have also learned that it is “roadmapping†rather than “the roadmap†that generates value. This two-part special...
March 01, 2004
Research organizations must have a strong balance of near-term and exploratory projects. Having a system that tracks and nurtures the development of these projects enables the organization to advance...
September 01, 2005
Sustainable development has three broad goals: environmental stewardship, social responsibility and economic prosperity, for both the organization and its stakeholders. In a successful sustainability...
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 10, 2017
Express Learning Presenters share a practical approach for spotting-evaluating-integrating of emerging technologies with the focus on building reliable internal and external networks to...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project The goal of this ROR is 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...
March 22, 2017
This presentation will include an overview of open innovation, including the drivers and benefits of open innovation. It will discuss the characteristics of successful open innovation endeavors,...
March 22, 2017
This interactive presentation will focus on how to create an actionable strategy, how to identify gaps between spending and strategy, and how to build consensus about priorities that are on-strategy...
March 07, 2017
A counterculture is a subculture whose values, ethos, and aspirations differ substantially from those of the mainstream. When the oppositional ideas of a counterculture reach a critical mass and...
March 07, 2017
Kaigham Gabriel has managed successful breakthrough innovation at DARPA, Motorola, Google, and Draper. He has derived from this experience a set of practices and tools that significantly increase the...
July 01, 2005
Achieving sustained organizational innovation has proved an almost insurmountable challenge for most firms, and is even more challenging in difficult economic times. Most firms are unprepared for...
May 01, 2005
Most managers recognize that time-to-market practices provide benefits for their organizations, but few have considered all available TTM strategies. Further, little research has been done into the...
May 01, 2005
Strategic inventing is a relatively obscure approach to product development whereby products are designed with an emphasis on strategic positioning of intellectual property. Traditional R&D and...
March 01, 2005
Intellectual assets are fundamental to the operation of technology-intensive firms. Companies skilled at managing intellectual property as a business strategy protect the core of the business while...
September 01, 2006
The organization of R&D activities has a large impact on a company’s ability to execute its business and technology strategy. Thus, managers face the challenging question, “What’s the best...