Welcome to the April R&D Today newsletter!
Uncertain times create risks but also opportunities. We hope that you find the articles featured in this newsletter inspiring and informative. They are written by practitioners and academics who have first-hand experience of the types of pressures faced by R&D managers.
The R&D Today website is supported by RADMA (Research and Development Management Association) to encourage the sharing of best practice. We hope to meet you in person at the summer conference.
As always if you would like to comment or contribute please do get in touch - we look forward to hearing from you.
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Brexit as an innovation challenge
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Many R&D managers will recognise the feeling of being asked to achieve a complex multifaceted project with an apparently impossible timescale and distracting internal politics, while being under-resourced and under huge pressure to “just get on with it”.
As the UK embarks on the complicated process of negotiating itself out of the EU, Anne Miller reflects about the parallels with innovation.
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How to create compelling objectives to deliver strategic growth platforms
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Leaders want their teams to think beyond the day-to-day and create thriving visions for the future that are based in a well-understood current situation and provide a platform for new growth. Peter Allen of nu Angle describes a tool that he has used to develop compelling objectives for strategic growth.
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Strategic roadmapping – take control in times of uncertainty
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Roadmapping is a planning approach that provides a structured ‘lens’ with which to look at a complex situation and deduce action plans. Dr Imoh Ilevbare examines how roadmapping can help to reduce pressure resulting from uncertainty ahead of presenting a webinar on 19th April 2017, 13.00 BST.
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Technology Roadmap Development Framework:
Case Study within Energy Sector
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When the Bonneville Power Administration wanted to articulate its technology research agenda to external experts it found that the traditional approach to roadmapping didn't meet its needs. So the Agency developed its own approach and this has been used successfully to cascade its needs from strategy to implementation, James V. Hillegas-Elting, Roadmapping Project Manager, Bonneville Power Administration Technology Innovation explains in his guest post.
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research Conference
19-20 June 2017 at Cambridge Judge Business School
The conference convenes leading scholars from around the world to discuss a wide range of topics of critical interest to researchers and business practitioners. The two-day conference will draw a diverse set of presenters and discussants with expertise in various disciplines within entrepreneurship and innovation research streams.
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R&D Management Conference 2017
Science, Markets & Society:
Crossing boundaries, creating momentum
1-5 July 2017 at University of Leuven, Belgium
The R&D Management Conference 2017 will take place from 2-5 July at the University of Leuven in Belgium, and will be preceded by a Doctoral Workshop on 1st and 2nd July.
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About R&D Today
There are many challenging topics facing R&D managers and sources of objective, practical help can be in short supply. To highlight information and resources that practitioners in R&D management may find useful, R&D Today aims to make knowledge and expertise more widely accessible and to encourage the sharing of ideas between practitioners and academics. |
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