R&D Management Best Practices
The article An Examination of New Product Development Best Practice from Journal of Product Innovation Management has great best practice AND benchmarking […]
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March 2012
How to Become a Better Leader
The McKinsey Quarterly article How centered leaders achieve extraordinary results has five pointers to become more effective leaders: Meaning: Find and communicate
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How to Be More Creative
Wall Street Journal article Jonah Lehrer on How to Be Creative has a list of items that can improve creativity (or innovation).
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Beliefs + Experimentation = Success
Another interesting article from MIT Sloan Review discusses how to develop unique strategies and plans. The article points out that many
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How to get the best from corporate R&D
MIT Sloan Review has an interesting article about corporate functions (Are CEOs Getting the Best From Corporate Functions?). Many of
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Globalization Penalty
Ford recently announced it is investing $1B for a new plant in India (U.S. automakers in race for Indian market
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Innovation at Bell Labs (The Idea Factory)
A couple of articles in the Oil and Glory blog describe innovation at Bell Labs (Book Review: Jon Gertner’s “The
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Courier: R&D Planning & Portfolio Management at Microsoft
I have been meaning to write about development and cancellation of Courier, an innovative tablet concept from Microsoft. The c|net article on
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Rethinking knowledge management for R&D teams
As we know, R&D is focused on generating knowledge. Unlike manufacturing, where the outcome is products, R&D generates knowledge about
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An example of a good R&D plan
As we have discussed in the past, R&D management is challenging because most new products require many technologies to mature simultaneously
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