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.
The intention is to signpost resources, papers and tools that would be of value to someone working in R&D and innovation management. All content is credited and referenced back to the source in line with the fair use doctrine.
We have found the Pentathlon provides a useful framework for discussion – click through the slides below to explore further.
If you are working in this field do get in contact.
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
For each we have invited two guest editors, a practitioner and an academic, to curate a useful resource for each.
View more about our themes here.
The Pentathlon Framework
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’.
Read more about the Pentathlon Framework here.
Tools
R&D Management Conference 2022
Latest
Design thinking to achieve ambidextrous innovation management
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...
Read more
Meet the editors at R&D Management Conference 2022
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.
Read more
AI feel you – capturing the customer experience with chatbots
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.
Read more
EINST4INE supporting digital transformation across innovation ecosystems
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.
Read more
Blind faith or hard evidence – does Design Thinking actually work in R&D?
Design Thinking is increasingly being adopted by R&D teams but is there hard evidence that it boosts an organisations performance?
Read moreSee more news >>
R&D Today sharing ideas, good practice and innovation in R&D management.
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
For each we have invited two guest editors, a practitioner and an academic, to curate a useful resource for each.
View more about our themes here.
The Pentathlon Framework
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’.
Read more about the Pentathlon Framework here.
Latest news
Design thinking to achieve ambidextrous innovation management
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...
Read more
Meet the editors at R&D Management Conference 2022
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.
Read more
AI feel you – capturing the customer experience with chatbots
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.
Read more
EINST4INE supporting digital transformation across innovation ecosystems
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.
Read more
Blind faith or hard evidence – does Design Thinking actually work in R&D?
Design Thinking is increasingly being adopted by R&D teams but is there hard evidence that it boosts an organisations performance?
Read moreSee all news >>
Tools
