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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!
What are your predictions for hot topics for 2022? Innovation experts at the Pistoia Alliance cite tackling antimicrobial resistance, quantum computing to optimise supply chains, commercial space travel and use of AI in drug discovery.
A survey of companies attending STIM events through 2019 and 2020 showed that there is growing interest in the application of Agile project management processes. In discussions it was revealed that more guidance on the types of projects where an Agile approach is suited would be of interest.
“Now is the time to re-think the firm’s innovation process and methods,” argues Robert G.Cooper, best known for the development of StageGate, a new product development process that is widely used by multinational organisations.
In his recent paper “Accelerating innovation: Some lessons from the pandemic”, in the Journal of Product Innovation Management, Cooper reviews five approaches to accelerated development and discusses how they have supported rapid new product development during the recent global crisis.
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Open innovation might be the way to tackle the world’s most pressing societal challenges – trials that can only be weathered when diverse sets of collaborative partners join forces – but very little understanding exists, beyond anecdotal, to link open innovation to societal impact, says Joon Mo Ahn.
The question that all R&D managers are asked is “What value will this activity generate for the company, its products and services?” In her paper Valerie Lynch explores the ways that this thorny question can be answered.
The Covid-19 crisis has stimulated the adoption of a number of managerial innovations, says Caroline Mattelin-Pierrard. She observes that one innovation – ‘the liberated company’ – provides opportunities for an organisation to develop greater agility.
Utilising this audit, the reader can assess the strengths and weaknesses in their ability to find, assimilate and use new knowledge to advantage – absorptive capacity.
Entrepreneurial ecosystems have the potential to support the regeneration of low-density and rural territories, but they are predominately applied in urban environments, could these frameworks be applied in a rural context? João Almeida of the University of Aveiro (Portugal) has been investigating and he presented his early findings at the R&D Management Conference.
One of the biggest challenges facing technology developers is how to blend and combine human, analytical and digital processes. A new six-week course, ‘Product Technology Roadmapping’ from the University of Cambridge, aims to help resolve these issues and show how the use of roadmapping can ensure technological decisions and developments are aligned with product and business plans.
Digital servitization uses a platform strategy to develop mutually dependent ecosystems. In B2C firms take a ‘winner takes all’ strategy, but research has revealed that within the B2B sector the approach is used more collaboratively to expand the platform value with their customers, suppliers, technology providers, and competitors.
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