Do You Recommend ISO Certification? Sandia's Science, Technology, and Engineering Management Unit is beginning a three-year journey to become ISO-9000 certified. Because work in this SMU constitutes...
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Strategic Planning
What should IRI tell the President about the barriers to advanced manufacturing? With a focus on new approaches and options that could be added to the President's platform, what might the government...
How many projects should R&D people have at a time? what is the "average" number of projects that are being worked on at any one time by the average R&D person? I've heard it said that...
October 17, 2012
Speed Matters Jean-Claude Kihn, PhD, Executive VP & CTO, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Goodyear loves to race! It's been in the company's DNA for more than 100 years, and has helped teach...
How has your company organized the CTO position? As I will take over the role of CTO for Sulzer, I was wondering if there is some data and conceptual understanding out there on how the CTO should be...
How does packaging fit with R&D? In your company, how are the packaging groups (including packaging innovation, design, engineering, testing etc.) set up organizationally? Are they part of R&...
Have you introduced an open workstation environment to your organization? Recent research suggests that an open workstation work environment is optimal for collaboration and interaction in the work...
How do you handle raw material strategy? How do you manage and guide raw material strategy within your organization? Do you have specific tools that you use to do this? - Manager, Raw Material Group...
How you do you structure your business development function? Can someone provide me with a typical organization management structure/chart for a business development or revenue generation function...
What have you done to uncover systemic risk in your R&D operations? Uncovering elements of Systemic Risk can be critical in many areas of business, but maybe none moreso than in laboratory data...
What major trends do you see in R&D research in the next 5 years? Help our Research-on-Research group stay ahead of the curve by letting us know what you see on the horizon of R&D research in...
How do you handle global CoE's? For U.S. companies with global centers of excellence (China/India/Brazil/Europe/etc): How do you make decisions when setting up these COE's? How do you determine which...
What percentage of projects in a typical innovation portfolio are successfully commercialized? Has anything been published recently that benchmarks the percentage of innovation portfolio projects...
What metrics do you use to measure the quality of your processes? We are interested in discovering more creative and inspiring ways to measure (and improve) our quality performance, and if possible,...
How do you handle the transfer of projects from Research to Development Bucket? We would like to know how different companies handle the many roadblocks and naysayers when it comes to transfer of...
How do you spot the BIG opportunities? What operating rhythm, processes, & metrics do you employ to preferentially identify, generate, AND screen BIG new opportunities in the early stages of the...