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Strategic Planning

RTM - Creative Downsizing Requires Strategic Intelligence
July 01, 2008
You are director of a research and development lab that has been key to your company’s success. But times are tough, and top management is on a cost-cutting crusade. Your boss tells you that although...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
  • Organization
  • Culture
RTM - Managing the Unmanageable
July 01, 2008
The lesson from this research into covert research—also known as “bootlegging”—is clear: do not even try to organize the early stages of innovation through formal processes. Interviews at 70 European...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Strategic Planning
  • Organization
  • Culture
RTM -Visualize Your Intellectual Property
July 01, 2008
Because of the escalating value of intangible assets to industrial organizations, active management of a company’s intellectual property has become an increasingly important responsibility of R&D...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Manage IP
  • Strategic Planning
  • Intellectual Asset Management
RTM - The DNA of Industrial Competitors
July 01, 2008
Competitor analysis is critical to strategy formulation and implementation. Firms are able to develop and deploy better strategies if their competitors’ responses can be analyzed or even predicted...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
  • New Product Development
RTM - Integrated Roadmaps for Open Innovation
April 01, 2008
In the context of open innovation, firms increasingly acquire technologies from external sources. Moreover, many firms have recently started to actively commercialize technologies, for example, by...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
  • Open Innovation
RTM - Connecting Business Needs with Basic Science
January 01, 2008
Two separate but simultaneous transformations—one in science, one in business—affect our world and our fortunes today. I believe these ongoing shifts, largely underway by 1995, will irrevocably...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Commercialize New Technology
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - How R&D Helped Transform DSM
January 01, 2008
A long-term perspective on R&D at the Dutch chemical company DSM illuminates two crucial and interrelated challenges in the management of R&D. On the one hand, companies must keep their...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Corporate Venturing: an Expanded Role for R&D
January 01, 2008
Managers in R&D need to take a more active role in helping their corporations to find new market applications and develop business plans for realizing value from those applications. Often it is...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Identify New Business Opportunities
  • New Business Development
  • Strategic Planning
  • Organization
RTM - Avoiding Commodity Hell
January 01, 2008
More than ever, a business today requires innovation to achieve and sustain strong economic performance. At Deere & Company, effective innovation depends on four key pillars: a sustained...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Value Roadmapping
September 01, 2009
Technology managers have a wide range of methods and tools at their disposal for deciding whether to invest in early-stage technologies. However, these techniques are mostly focused on quantitative...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - Innovation as a System
September 01, 2009
A mathematical model of the business system that links innovation of products and services to financial growth represents both investment and revenue as a series of overlapping waves, thus more...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • New Business Development
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Roadmapping Lessons from the Basque Country
July 01, 2009
Since its origins in Motorola in the 1970s ( 1 ), technology roadmapping has been adopted widely by many organizations in different sectors around the world. The underlying concept is very flexible,...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - R&D in the Financial Crisis
May 01, 2009
R&D at NASA, NSF, NIH, and DOE has fared very well in the new U.S. administration’s stimulus plan. But what role does R&D really play during a financial crisis? Where does it fall on the list...
  • RTM Journal
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Metrics/Finance
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Making Strategic Innovation Work: An Interview with Vijay Govindarajan
March 29, 2016
In 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, Vijay Govindarajan and co-author Chris Trimble discuss what it takes to innovate inside established companies. He emphasizes three concepts: forgetting lessons...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Needed—an R&D and Innovation Stimulus
May 01, 2010
High unemployment and low housing prices, exploding deficits and rising debt, plus gridlock in the U.S. Congress and financial instability do not bode well for lasting economic recovery in the near...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Managing Strategy and Innovation
May 01, 2010
Making the connection between innovation and strategy is among the most challenging aspects of managing a technology organization. Perhaps this is because making it work is so particular to the...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Innovation

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