April 01, 2016
Member Highlight: Randy Schiestl Learning to Lead Companies that Save Lives The career path of established R&D managers and executives is typically one without a straight line. The professional...
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Talent Management
January 01, 2008
Manufacturing firms whose project teams acquire departmental intelligence—the ability to understand and take others’ departmental perspectives—are more successful at product improvement. This is the...
January 01, 2008
The vision of a virtual world, like the one described by Neal Stephenson, has spurred the imagination of engineers to create environments from text-based “multi-user dungeons†(or MUDs) to three-...
September 01, 2009
A significant issue facing R&D managers today is maintaining a stimulating technology organization staffed with appropriately skilled individuals who share the vision of the corporation and...
May 01, 2009
Managers who lead high-performance teams in highly competitive industries must balance complex interpersonal relationships with corporate deadlines and quality standards. Pressure on the team to...
March 30, 2016
The ability to recruit exceptionally talented and capable management leaders is possibly the purest form of exceptional entrepreneurship and the key to organizational success. The correlation between...
May 01, 2009
Science, math and technology have been struggling with an image problem. For some time now, our culture has glorified the worlds of sports and entertainment, leading children to believe that these...
May 01, 2009
Patience is a virtue, if one is willing to persevere during preparation, planning and execution (program completion). Impatience is a virtue, if one, reacting to what has been learned in the lab or...
March 01, 2009
As a research/technology manager, you are being challenged to lead technical professionals to achieve significant innovation. That’s not the same as being a manager or an expert. In this Human Side...
January 01, 2009
When French company Groupe Bull prepared to merge with American firm Zenith Data Systems, American and French and engineers working for Bull discussed the difficulties of working with each other. As...
January 01, 2009
Dow Chemical’s Polyolefins and Elastomers (PO&E) business was doing so poorly in 1991 that it was being considered for divestiture. This first of two articles describes how a five-step approach...
July 01, 2010
You are leading a project urgently needed by your organization. How can you best motivate your team to meet a demanding schedule? Should you offer bonuses if the team meets a deadline? Not according...
January 01, 2009
When French company Groupe Bull prepared to merge with American firm Zenith Data Systems, American and French and engineers working for Bull discussed the difficulties of working with each other. As...
November 01, 2010
At intervals throughout the year, chief technology officers (CTOs) of large research and development departments across industries gather for an open exchange of information and an opportunity to...
November 01, 2010
Leaders of five working groups report on the status of their work: Sustainability in R&D; Collaboration Continuum; Business Models for Collaborative Relationships; R&D Leadership Skills/...
July 01, 2010
You are leading a project urgently needed by your organization. How can you best motivate your team to meet a demanding schedule? Should you offer bonuses if the team meets a deadline? Not according...