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Design Thinking can help organisations to become ‘ambidextrous’ (pursue the competing agendas of exploitative innovation and explorative innovation in parallel), but to do both requires a shift in thinking. Researchers studied the journey of a leading Australian property development company in its bid to become ambidextrous.
Leading journals will be participating in the tracks at the R&D Management Conference and several have special issues based on the theme of the track.
There are four broad themes and 38 tracks planned for the three days.
Could chatbots be used to elicit customer experience insights? Karim Sidaoui and colleagues at the Alliance Manchester Business School reviewed how AI could be used to combine the deep insights gained from interviews with the objectivity of quantitative analysis.
EINST4INE is a new training network that aims to develop a new generation of researchers with skills in innovation and technology management for the digital age.
Discovery of the ‘God particle’ was like finding the missing piece in a vast jigsaw – we knew what it needed to look like to complete the picture, but what if it didn’t fit?
High-speed rail and semiconductors play a key role in the implementation of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, which can be considered a country-level policy of ‘Inside-Out’ open innovation.
The authors observe that China’s path to prosperity is very different to that of the West and offer instead a novel combination of innovation theory that is illustrated through strategic management frameworks: dynamic capabilities and OI strategy.
Managing pharmaceutical drug development is a world apart from managing software development. The timescales are different, the costs are different and the people are different too. Jeremy Klein, Chair of RADMA, explains why contextual specificity is important in R&D Development.
Few companies were realising the full potential of roadmapping back in 2015/16 when the Institute of Manufacturing and Fraunhofer Group conducted a study of roadmapping practice. The research team is now revisiting the study to see how the situation has changed, particularly following the advent of supporting tools and new technologies such as machine learning and AI.
The role and impact of R&D (broadly defined to include driving innovation in any aspect of the firm) has dramatically increased, says Marco Iansiti of the Harvard Business School. In essence, AI has become the new R&D function in businesses ranging from Netflix to JP Morgan Chase.
Project portfolio management (PPM) is about the management, control and accountability of all programs, projects and related activities of an organisation. Projects are valued according to a range of criteria. The Strategic Project and Portfolio Management event, taking place from 2nd-4th February 2022, has invited a range of practitioners to discuss the tools and techniques they are using in their businesses.
Traditional organizations start to face diseconomies of scale, scope, and learning as they grow. You know the stuff. But AI allows the modern giga-platform companies to grow at unprecedented pace and the it seems that there are very little limits to scalability. Read the book to understand why!
The organisers of the R&D Management Conference 2022 “Innovation for people and territories” have opened the call for abstract submissions.