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To understand how firms successfully share proprietary information in collaborative relationships, Edward Hummell and colleagues interviewed 30 IRI members
Air Products’ approach to open innovation was to identifying and prioritising the key technical needs and use a toolbox of approaches to accelerate solutions,however the move from inhouse to open innovation was not without its challenges.
Paul Germeraad identifies the trends are profoundly affecting product development: “These are creating entirely new avenues for achieving business success. Speed of execution is bottom line. A company’s ability to stay in business is dependent upon its flexibility to adapt to these new trends and execute its strategy faster than its competition”
Analysis indicated that R&D leaders tend to excel in technical insight, global awareness and the ability to foster an innovative environment and culture. But often fell short on some people management skills, such as managing conflict and addressing incompetence.
To improve the success rate of its business development initiatives DuPont developed a comprehensive framework to help its business leadership and development teams successfully navigate their way through new business development (NBD).
It may be time to re-think the notion of a C-suite Chief Technology Officer, says Roger Smith, President of Modelbenders LLC. He proposes instead taking a model from the military and introducing field CTO within the business units.
To enhance technological innovation, Procter & Gamble has undertaken a variety of activities designed to create connections, Dr Nabil Y. Sakkab, Senior Vice President at Procter & Gamble, describes how connections – both internal and external – are of increasing importance to innovation and business growth at the company.
Q&A with Peter Boer, president and CEO of Tiger Scientific Inc and a professor of management and engineering at Yale University
Building new innovation ecosystem is a frustrating endeavour but the firms that are successful ecosystem builders establish leadership in the market, says Gouthanan Pushpananthan, of Chalmers University of Technology. He
Trying to do everything for everyone is not possible – but how do you prioritise? This paper in the Harvard Business Review looks at different strategies.
The Manhattan project, built the first implosion-type fission bomb when much of the necessary information and theory were not available. Studying this project revealed interesting insights and some lessons on how to (and how not to) approach such investigations offering potential interest both from an historical and technical point of view and for the observations about experimental method.
Imoh Ilevbare works at Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge; he has provided a quick overview of these open access papers from Technovation.
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