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...
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Strategic Planning
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...
July 01, 2006
Although project prioritization is widely used for analyzing portfolios, there is often a bias toward considering only quantitative criteria. This fails to account for such key considerations as...
July 01, 2006
A study of the strategic transformation of Samsung’s corporate R&D center (SAIT) shows how the R&D center transformed its organization and processes to align the company’s business units for...
March 01, 2006
Senior executives in every large or mid-size company in the United States and Europe routinely face questions regarding their plans and strategies for conducting a part of their R&D overseas,...
March 01, 2006
Setting the level of R&D spending is one of the most important strategic decisions made by top management of technology-based firms. The delay between the commitment to expenditure for R&D...
January 01, 2006
One of the main challenges for technology-driven industries is to rapidly transform R&D results into revenues. However, R&D activities are complex and unstructured phenomena that typically...
July 01, 2007
Those who aspire to strategic leadership as Chief Technology Officers must look beyond their roots in technology and develop their careers in light of the realities of how decisions are made in top...
July 01, 2007
Company shareholders demand business growth that delivers increasing returns on their investment, in absolute terms. There are three initial routes management can take to achieve that objective: •...
May 01, 2007
2007 is Research-Technology Management’s 50th year of publication. To mark the occasion, each issue reprints one of RTM’s six most frequently referenced articles. The articles were identified by N...
May 01, 2007
Growth through innovation requires not only good technical ideas but alignment of priorities between all the functions responsible for successfully developing and commercializing the idea. The...
May 01, 2007
Recent concerns about energy resource sustainability and security of supply have raised awareness that oil and gas production faces significant challenges that can only be met through highly...
March 01, 2007
2007 is Research–Technology Management’s 50th year of publication. To mark the occasion, each issue reprints one of RTM’s six most frequently referenced articles. The articles were identified by N...
January 01, 2007
Getting talented engineers and scientists to take appropriate risks is one of the keys to building a more innovative organization. Boeing has worked to accomplish this over the past nine years by...
January 01, 2007
2007 is Research-Technology Management’s 50th year of publication. To mark the occasion, each issue will reprint one of RTM’s six most frequently-referenced articles. The articles were identified by...