March 01, 2018
Available tools and frameworks can help companies ensure that sustainability is embedded as a fundamental building block of new product development. Increasingly, organizations are embedding...
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Sustainability
December 01, 2017
Over the past five years, two ROR groups have examined how sustainability can be factored into R&D. Focusing on the planet (environment) portion of the triple P (people, planet and profits, P3),...
October 10, 2017
Over the past five years, two ROR groups have examined how sustainability can be factored into R&D. Focusing on the planet (environment) portion of the triple P (people, planet and profits, P3),...
October 10, 2017
Biomimicry: Streamlining the Front End of Innovation for Environmentally Sustainable Products. Biomimicry, defined as innovation through the emulation of biological forms, processes, patterns, and...
October 04, 2017
FORT WORTH, TX (October 4, 2017) – Biomimicry, the emulation of biology in product and service design, is gaining popularity among R&D leaders. Emily Kennedy, Director of External Relations for...
October 04, 2017
Supplier Decision Matrix Tool Template Sustainability Checklist: New Products in NPD
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...
September 01, 2005
Sustainable growth—the creation of shareholder and societal values while reducing environmental impacts along entire value chains—is not a choice but a requirement for successful businesses in the...
September 01, 2005
Nearly 4½ billion people, all over the world, earn less than three dollars a day. These are largely rural, largely uneducated—but not stupid—individuals whom we do not understand and on whom...
May 01, 2017
Recent research and practice have shown that business model innovation can be one way to create and capture new value and drive production and consumption toward sustainability. However, business...
February 22, 2017
This project aims to overcome the gap between a high level view on the importance of sustainability to a “how to do it†approach to integrating sustainability into the NPD process. The team has used...
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...
October 18, 2016
ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data This project aims to overcome the gap between a high level view on the importance of sustainability to a “how to do it†approach to integrating sustainability...
June 27, 2016
Biomimicry, defined as innovation through the emulation of biological forms, processes, patterns, and systems, is particularly valuable for its focus on solution discovery, as opposed to solution...
May 24, 2016
ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data This project aims to overcome the gap between a high level view on the importance of sustainability to a “how to do it†approach to integrating sustainability...
May 02, 2016
OVERVIEW: Many companies see environmental sustainability as a cost--a legal and social obligation requiring investments that may never be recovered--rather than as an opportunity. However,...