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1. Strategy

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Techniques for Effective Prioritisation

13 September, 2018

Gut feeling may be a valid basis for making decisions about your personal life but a more objective and rigorous approach is needed within R&D

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A simple C&E matrix can be built using a spreadsheet

Good techniques for prioritising projects

13 September, 2018

Gut feeling may be a valid basis for making decisions about your personal life but a more objective and rigorous approach is needed to prioritise

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Fig 3 The Permeable Funnel

Are these the best tools for R&D Management?

29 June, 2018
There are many excellent tools and techniques for R&D management, but all too often people re-invent the wheel as knowledge of these gems is not
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Intuitive vs Analytical thinking

Seduction and persuasion – Intuitive v. analytical thinking in technology management

11 January, 2018

People in R&D usually have a mix of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics training and this requires structured analytical thinking. But many of these people

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The Pentathlon Framework – Strategy

14 November, 2017
Technology strategy is essential in a competitive market A technology strategy – that is aligned with the corporate mission – can help focus R&D on
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How distortions and deceptions impact the creation of technology strategy

4 May, 2017

Cognitive bias, where a decision-maker actively seeks out and assigns more weight to evidence that confirms their hypothesis, can disrupt the technology strategy which needs

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Roadmapping at BASF

23 December, 2016

When Tim Handyside became head of a new innovation management group for BASF’s Construction Chemicals Division he was already an advocate of roadmapping. However, despite

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Assessing the viability of emerging disruptive technology

20 December, 2016

What makes a disruptive technology successful? According to Hardman et al, the winning characteristics include being disruptive to market leaders, end users and infrastructure. Their

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How to identify disruptive technologies

20 December, 2016

With increased market competition and social pressure, energy companies have had to adapt, generating innovative ideas themselves and dealing with new technologies that may threaten

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Roadmapping facilitates strategic dialogue

9 December, 2016

Careful attention to the design of roadmap-based templates can greatly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the group in sharing, capturing, organising, prioritising and synthesising

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Agile project management in R&D

What do you think about roadmapping?

5 October, 2016

Welcome to the R&D Today Roadmapping theme from the editors, Rob Phaal, Clare Farrukh and Sven Schimpf

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How an expert network can bring new insights for technology strategy

2 August, 2016

Independent, objective experts are invaluable when defining technology strategy. Free from the constraints of internal R&D activities they can identify new growth platforms for an

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