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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R&D Management
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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A Quirky Way of Innovating
I have often written about accessing innovation from outside the organization (open innovation, borderless innovation, etc). HBR article A Quirky
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Microsoft vs. Apple – a lesson in IP protection
The Computer World blog had an interesting post “Microsoft dominates Apple in patents, so why does it lag in innovation?”
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Nokia R&D spending – a lesson in Portfolio Balancing
In a previous post, I discussed how bureaucracy stifled innovation at Nokia. I ventured a guess that a formalized R&D
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At Apple, the Platform Is the Engine of Growth – NYTimes.com
The article At Apple, the Platform Is the Engine of Growth: has some good lessons about platform-based R&D management: Apple has hit
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Intel Spreads Its University Research Bets
NY Times had a brief article on open innovation in Intel Spreads Its University Research Bets. So Intel, the chip giant,
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Toyota’s ‘Devil’s Advocate’ Policy Looks to Restore Quality
We have talked about Toyota recalls and the announcement by Mr. Todyoda to fix the problems. You might recall that
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