Impact of IT on R&D management

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MIT Sloan Review has an article on “The Four Ways IT Is Revolutionizing Innovation.” The factors according to the article are: Measurement, experimentation, sharing and replication. Of these factors, sharing and replication are clearly universal drivers enabled by IT. Most industries are benefiting from improved sharing and replication of information across R&D organizations. The impact of

Why don’t businesses experiment more

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In a very interesting column in the Harvard Business Review, Dan Ariely writes about why organizations are willing to listen to experts and consultants but not do some experiments themselves and find the best answer: I think this irrational behavior stems from two sources. One is the nature of experiments themselves. As the people at