Do CEOs really know what they want from R&D?
Results of another industry survey – this one from Diamond – are actually the opposite of the IBM survey (CEOs […]
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R&D Management
Why don’t businesses experiment more
In a very interesting column in the Harvard Business Review, Dan Ariely writes about why organizations are willing to listen
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Car Makers – A complex Web of Alliances
Here is a cool graphic from Financial Times that shows the complex web of alliances between various auto makers (registration
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Team recognition (as opposed to individual)
Recognizing teams for their contribution and balancing that with individual recognition has always been rather difficult. The Corporate Executive Board
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Mentoring
In an comprehensive article on mentoring (When Mentoring Goes Bad), WSJ provides some really good hints on how mentoring can
Borderless Innovation
Just like Open Innovation, there is another new trend in accessing innovation outside the captive R&D organization – Borderless Innovation.
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Focus on technology instead of customers if you want breakthroughs
A marketing study performed at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign shows that a technology focus is necessary to generate breakthroughs
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Performance reviews cause too much stress
The New York Times has an interesting article on the impact of performance reviews on supervisors and employees alike. Annual
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Using rivalry to spur innovation
Mckinsey Quarterly has an interesting article on how to spur innovation. Their suggestion is to use rivalry to drive innovation.
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Innovation vs. Group Think
Here is a really cool article from the Knowledge @ Wharton. It deals with one of the major problems with
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