Accelerating product development: the tools you need now – a review
Could tools used by the digital industry provide answers for more traditional sectors? Steve Bone discusses a McKinsey article about tools and techniques
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The Innovation Challenge
In my view, the conference has been a fantastic opportunity to discuss cutting-edge themes with colleagues from all over the world. We discussed the challenges and relaxed within one of the most prestigious engineering university in the world, comments...
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R&D Management Conference looks to the future of metanationals
Is this the age of metanationals? As companies such as Google, Amazon, Unilever, Dyson become effectively stateless, this is creating challenges for R&D managers. The issues were discussed in a keynote for the R&D Management Conference 2019
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RADMA: celebrating 40 years – new product development for IoT
The Internet of Things products and services aim to increase organisational value and turnover. Boyeun Lee is developing guidelines on new product development processes for this exciting area.
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Crowdsourcing without profit: How to implement ‘Open Social Innovation’
Open innovation has emerged as a novel way for organizations to innovate by collaborating with external stakeholders. Crowdsourcing is one contemporary application of open innovation - as Krithika Randhawa of UTS Sydney shares here.
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Renault is on track for autonomous driving
Scenario identification is creating use case definitions for real world driving safety critical scenarios, explains Rémi Bastien, Vice President for Automotive Prospective, Renault Group.
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Are female solvers an undervalued resource in crowdsourcing?
Crowdsourcing has the potential to deliver high-value solutions at very low cost, according to Christopher L. Tucci Professor of Management of Technology. Female solvers, in the outer circle develop particularly successful solutions.
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Leveraging Open Innovation for societal impact – an R&D Management special issue
How could open innovation (OI) collaborative practices provide a way to tackle the world’s most pressing societal challenges – eradication of disease? Reduction of carbon emissions? Creation of more sustainable products and services? A special issue of R&D Management...
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What is the impact of Industry 4.0 on innovation design processes?
Understanding of Industry 4.0 so far has been limited to process automation and performance improvement, undervaluing the role of the Industry 4.0 design principles, such as interoperability, transparency, technical assistance, decentralization argues Lia Tirabeni, 7.2 Track co-chair.
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Emerging landscapes in a world of 4.0
One of the major challenges we face in the world of 4.0 is how to change the way we think, train and work with data in order to create value
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