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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.

We have found the Pentathlon provides a useful framework for discussion, click on the numbers below to explore further.

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    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'.
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    1 > Strategy steers innovation
    where it is most needed
    An innovation strategy guides and influences ideas
    selection and implementation, identifying the business priorities
    and ensuring senior management buy-in at an early stage.
    The strategy may recommend acquisition, a new supply chain or new skills.
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    2 > Ideas Generation
    Ideas generation is a response
    to problems and challenges.
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    3 > Selection &
    prioritisation of ideas
    A process is required for the selection and prioritisation
    of ideas when incomplete information is available
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    4 > Implementation
    of ideas to market
    Strong project management skills are needed
    to move ideas from conception, through implementation
    to market in an environment of high uncertainty.
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    5 > People & organisations
    An enterprise culture is one that can manage the
    tension between taking risks and minimising
    failure as products and services near market.
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THE PENTATHLON FRAMEWORK - click to read more
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3 > SELECTION
4 > IMPLEMENTATION
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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 – and invited two guest editors, a practitioner and an academic, to curate a useful resource for each.

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R&D Management Conference 2019

The 2019 R&D Management Conference will be based around the theme of The Innovation Challenge: Bridging Research, Industry and Society and will take place from 17-21 June 2019 in Paris. The 2 next important dates for #RnDParis2019: – May, 1st end of the early bird price, May, 31st deadline for full paper submission.

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Are these the best (or worst) festive inventions?

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 21 December, 2018

By using AI at the front end of invention the ideas are not subject to personal bias. However, human evaluation of the options is still vital to ensure feasibility

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Agile project management

Can Agile be used for hardware development?

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 12 December, 2018

Can Agile project management methods - widely used in software - be applied in projects involving hardware? Rick Mitchell considers the question.

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Sihem Jouini is a professor at HEC Paris. R&D Management Conference Paris

Preparing for the R&D Management Conference

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 3 December, 2018

The R&D Management Conference moves about the world and is organised by a new team each time, we asked Sihem Jouini, a professor at HEC Paris, to ask her how she got involved.

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Jeremy Klein RAMA Chairman

Reflections on the Milan R&D Management Conference

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 3 December, 2018

I've often been asked what the value of the R&D Management Conference is to a practitioner such as myself. For me, it’s often snippets of ideas that I’ve never come across before.

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The problem of plastic: Open Innovation Forum tackles sustainable packaging

  • By rnd-admin
  • on 29 November, 2018

The OI Forum tackled the packaging challenge using a structured ‘Design Thinking’ approach to discover new solutions

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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’.

1. Innovation Strategy

An innovation strategy guides and influences ideas selection and implementation, identifying the business priorities and ensuring senior management buy-in at an early stage. The strategy may recommend acquisition, a new supply chain or new skills.

2. Ideas Generation

Ideas generation is a response to problems and challenges.

3. Selection & Prioritisation

A process is required for the selection and prioritisation of ideas when incomplete information is available

4. Implementation

Strong project management skills are needed to move ideas from conception, through implementation to market in an environment of high uncertainty.

5. People & Organisations

An enterprise culture is one that can manage the tension between taking risks and minimising failure as products and services near market.

R&D Today sharing ideas, good practice and innovation in R&D management.

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    Record number of submissions to R&D Management Conference
    The response to our call for abstracts has been impressive, says Prof. Thierry Rayna, Professor of Innovation Management École Polytechnique.
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  • Roadmapping as the backbone for an innovation management system
    Combining Roadmapping with Strategy and Innovation Tools: a backbone for an Innovation Management...
    By integrating strategic, tactic and operational perspectives of innovation a model can be developed that promotes a structured approach to innovation management
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  • Smells are subjective so how do you identify and overcome offensive odours?
    Using good practice R&D management to create new innovations in malodour control
    The removal of unpleasant smells from the human body and living spaces has been a challenge across the years. Despite considerable investment by large companies there is not yet a complete solution. A new report outlines a new approach that is making advances.
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  • Yong Kew Lew (paper author)
    Gravitating towards the quadruple helix
    Unlike other studies, the Trentino Regional Innovation System demonstrates that international connections are vital, to increase prestige and success in a globalised economic system, comments Professor Lew.
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  • Yan Chen (paper author)
    Partial adjustment toward target R&D intensity
    Firms with higher speed of adjustment can promptly adjust their R&D investments, enabling them to create and sustain competitive advantage in dynamic environments.
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