R&D Today
R&D Today – sharing ideas, good practice and innovation in R&D management.
R&D Today aims to share knowledge, new approaches and well proven techniques, it is the outreach site for the Research and Development Management Association (RADMA), a charitable organisation that supports research, best practice and education.
We have found the Pentathlon provides a useful framework for discussion, click on the numbers below to explore further.
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Our Themes
There is no shortage of challenges facing R&D managers, but sources of practical help can be in short supply.
To assist we have selected a number of themes that are of wide interest – technology strategy, ideation and creativity, managing the pipeline, open innovation, roadmapping, managing international R&D – and invited two guest editors, a practitioner and an academic, to curate a useful resource for each.
View more about our themes here.
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nalogies are a useful tool for creative problem solving, to help one move away... -
Different types of feature have different effects on customer satisfaction - analysis by Quality... -
Large R&D centric businesses have a huge asset in the vast experience that exists... -
Gut feeling may be a valid basis for making decisions about your personal life... -
Leaders want their teams to think beyond the day-to-day and create thriving visions for...
R&D 2018 Conference
The annual R&D Management Conference this year took the theme of ‘Digital innovation’. It explored how the Internet of Things, Big Data and AI are reshaping and transforming society and business, provided a forum for new ideas and thinking on how management approaches can be adapted to enable innovation in a dynamic environment. Read an overview of the 2018 Conference here.
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Improving the assessment of innovation and technology management capabilities
Increasingly the alignment of technology management and innovation management is seen as crucial to the performance of knowledge and manufacturing-based organisations, creating a demand for improved methods to assess performance.
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Good techniques for prioritising projects
Gut feeling may be a valid basis for making decisions about your personal life but a more objective and rigorous approach is needed to prioritise projects in a portfolio
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Promoting Innovation through Living Labs
Living labs offer a platform for companies to engage in open innovation activities with customers, to collect vital ideas, useful feedback, valuable user experiences, and new information,
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Greetings from Milan!
Over 43 highly motivated Ph.D. students and a rich plethora of experts from academia and industry were attracted to the Ph.D. Colloquium ahead of the R&D Management Conference and engaged in critical but constructive discussions on their research ambitions....
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Start-up Pitch at R&D Management Conference
A new feature of this year's R&D Management Conference held in Milan was a start-up showcase with 15 entrepreneurs.
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Without risk you cannot have game-changing innovation
The key to successful innovation is to fail fast at the front-end, where the impact on the business can be managed. The Pentathlon Framework can be used to describe a structured process that removes the risk of failure as ideas progress through the ‘Innovation Funnel’.
R&D Today sharing ideas, good practice and innovation in R&D management.
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Increasingly the alignment of technology management and innovation management is seen as crucial to... -
A approach to assessing technology and innovation management (ITM) capabilities to identify risks and... -
Gut feeling may be a valid basis for making decisions about your personal life... -
Living labs offer a platform for companies to engage in open innovation activities with... -
Over 43 highly motivated Ph.D. students and a rich plethora of experts from academia...
Tools
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A useful tool in creative problem solving is the ‘how to’ statement which provides... -
Paul Barrett is part of a RADMA working group providing a selection of recommended... -
Gut feeling may be a valid basis for making decisions about your personal life...
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nalogies are a useful tool for creative problem solving, to help one move away...
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Leaders want their teams to think beyond the day-to-day and create thriving visions for...
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Different types of feature have different effects on customer satisfaction - analysis by Quality...
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John Bessant recommends this tool developed by colleagues in Canada which helps with using... -
Large R&D centric businesses have a huge asset in the vast experience that exists...
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TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) provides a logical approach to developing creativity... -
Frugal innovation allows a company with a quality product to compete effectively with cheaper... -
Many of the tools used in valuing and selecting projects are only really applicable... -
Content is the essence of roadmapping. But the impact of impressive, professional visuals that...
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R&D 2018 Conference
