Potential R&D savings from the Defense budget
New York Times Op-Chart The Pentagon’s Biggest Boondoggles has thoughts on cutting defense R&D costs (and quite a bit of historical data). […]
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Too much positivity increases Risk
The article Organizational Culture: An Overlooked Internal Risk in Business Week has useful data about how employees tend to hide bad news:
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What Makes Teams Smart
An interesting paper in Science extends the concept of intelligence to teams and defines Collective Intelligence. Based on study of
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Hotbeds of Innovation
The Strategy + Business article Hotbeds of Innovation has some useful benchmarking information about how large corporations are accessing innovation from outside.
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Some best practice info about R&D and innovation
The post Six Myths of Corporate R&D at Corporate Executive Boards has a convenient list of best practices for encouraging innovation as
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More proof that innovation is a buzz word
The article How to Develop a Social Innovation Network, in my opinion, teaches you how not to purse innovation. “Customers already
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Tapping the Innovative Masses
MIT’s Technology Review has some interesting survey results in the article Tapping the Innovative Masses: “We found that 6.2 percent—representing 2.9
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Necessity is the mother of Innovation (Continued)
A quick post about the article Can Medical Innovation in Developing Countries Disrupt the U.S. Healthcare System?: While American and European
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Performance Management
A couple of articles (Handling the Underperformer on Your Team, & The Dirty Secret of Effective Sales Coaching) have good pointers
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Asking Yourself the Hard Questions
Industry Week article Asking Yourself the Hard Questions has some interesting points about R&D strategy and planning: Truth can’t be the first
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