January 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Many ï¬rms rely on a single new-product development process for all projects. But designing new products for different business contexts requires that a ï¬rm deploy different new-product...
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Strategic Planning
May 01, 2013
We generally think of business success or failure in human terms: management is brilliant or flawed, rises to opportunities or overlooks them, takes risks or plays it safe. The sky’s the limit, and if...
July 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Because they are highly visual, roadmaps can be a strong enabler of communication between different stakeholder groups and across organizations. However, the visual design of roadmaps has...
July 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Radical innovation is an engine of growth, but identifying likely opportunities can be challenging. Building on previous work, this paper explores the use and importance of nine strategies...
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
Wednesday May 25, 2016 – Thursday May 26, 2016
Lively roundtable discussions and a full-day Portfolio Management Master Class led by Dr. Richard Bayney. Learn to shape the strategic and financial goals of your company.