2010 Annual Conference – Breakthrough Innovation – Building the Company’s Innovation Stream

Resource Type
Presentation
Publish Date
05/11/2020
Author
John W. Brennan
Topics
Managing Emerging Technologies, Knowledge Management, New Business Development
Associated Event
2010 Annual Conference

The economic downturn has created seismic shifts across the globe with industries restructuring and companies reshaping themselves for survival as well as growth. With Wall Street’s expectations, companies are under even greater pressure today to at least meet if not exceed both top-line growth and bottom-line results. One of the distinguishing features between companies that merely survive today’s economic dislocations versus those that truly thrive is their ability to manage and produce breakthrough innovation. But, is it really possible to proactively manage a company’s R&D portfolio to produce breakthrough innovation(s) or are transformative innovations merely the result of serendipity?

While managing transformative innovation to produce breakthrough products and services is no small feat, it is not only possible but really distinguishes those companies that produce excess returns for their shareholders, according to Arthur D. Little Inc. Known throughout its history as “The Problem Solvers,” no organization has been more instrumental in producing breakthrough innovations than the world’s first management and technology consultancy. From development and reformulation of groundbreaking food and beverage products such as Slim Fast as well as other beverages that deliver functional health benefits to developing and commercializing hydrogen fuel cells and processors to address energy conservation and sustainability, no firm has had a greater hand in the development of truly transformative and breakthrough products and technologies than Arthur D. Little.

For over a hundred years, Arthur D. Little Inc. has helped companies not only to create truly groundbreaking products and technologies but has helped these same companies to formulate and implement transformative breakthrough innovation management processes. For companies that want and need to grow, there is a holistic body of knowledge, both art as well as science, that firms can leverage to produce truly groundbreaking products and services. Arthur D. Little Inc. will share the best practices and methodologies from the combined experience of its most senior and trusted advisors that spans industries, continents, and cultures on what make companies “great” and how through Managing Breakthrough Innovation.