Seven steps to better brainstorming
McKinsey Quarterly has a list of Seven steps to better brainstorming. Clearly, Ideation is important and difficult to do well. From […]
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R&D Management
Apple R&D and Steve Jobs Methodology: Long-term vision
Let us continue our discussion on the Steve Jobs methodology. We discussed user centric design as the fundamental tenet of
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When to rely on gut feelings
We have discussed papers and empirical data that show that reliance on gut feelings often produces sub-optimal results. Now we have
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Apple R&D and Steve Jobs Methodology: User Centric Design
I have been fascinated with Apple’s R&D successes (Platform-based approach, Portfolio Management, etc.). I have always suspected that Steve Jobs
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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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