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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Frugal innovation allows a company with a quality product to compete effectively with cheaper... -
Paul Barrett is part of a RADMA working group providing a selection of recommended...
R&D 2018 Conference
The annual R&D Management Conference this year takes the theme of ‘Digital innovation’. It explores how the Internet of Things, Big Data and AI are reshaping and transforming society and business, and will provide a forum for new ideas and thinking on how management approaches can be adapted to enable innovation in a dynamic environment.
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Why am I losing staff? The power of inner drivers
It is the experience of autonomy, competence and relatedness that fuels an inner drive. Creating a work environment that satisfies intrinsic motivations will help you retain talents in your team.
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Strong industry presence at R&D Management Conference
The digital revolution has impacted every aspect of our lives and for R&D management it has changed the clock speed. There is increased pressure to ‘get something out there’ and to improve new products iteratively with the involvement of...
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What skills do we need for Open Innovation?
To be successful an OI team needs around forty specific skills covering the four stages of OI – Want, Find, Get, Manage – these skills fall into four categories: introspective, extrospective, interactive and technical.
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R&D Post-Project Reviews: Lessons Learnt or Lessons Lost?
For every new product development important lessons are learnt but unless these are captured and shared future teams will waste time and effort solving similar problems, argues Keith Goffin. Good post-project reviews (PPRs) can be invaluable in making future...
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RADMA trustees meet up at Wiley
The RADMA trustees meeting was hosted by Wiley Business in Oxford
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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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It is the experience of autonomy, competence and relatedness that fuels an inner drive.... -
The digital revolution has impacted every aspect of our lives and for R&D management... -
To be successful an OI team needs around forty specific skills covering the four... -
For every new product development important lessons are learnt but unless these are captured...
Tools
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Paul Barrett is part of a RADMA working group providing a selection of recommended...
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Many of the tools used in valuing and selecting projects are only really applicable... -
Leaders want their teams to think beyond the day-to-day and create thriving visions for... -
Large R&D centric businesses have a huge asset in the vast experience that exists...
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nalogies are a useful tool for creative problem solving, to help one move away... -
John Bessant recommends this tool developed by colleagues in Canada which helps with using...
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Frugal innovation allows a company with a quality product to compete effectively with cheaper...
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Different types of feature have different effects on customer satisfaction - analysis by Quality...
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Content is the essence of roadmapping. But the impact of impressive, professional visuals that... -
A useful tool in creative problem solving is the ‘how to’ statement which provides... -
TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) provides a logical approach to developing creativity...
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R&D 2018 Conference