Innovation by experimentation
This track at the R&D Management Conference explores the potential of experimentation, both success and failure, and the implications for the organisation. We are hoping to offer a new perspective on knowledge creation says Alessandro Narduzzo.
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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...
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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?
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The Right Way to Lead Design Thinking – a review
Design thinking is challenging because it involves something more fundamental than managing change: It involves discovering what change is needed. Rick Mitchell has found this paper in Harvard Business Review of interest.
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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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