Politics and personalities impacting your strategy?
Human factors can impact technology strategy, the success of Open Innovation and the direction of research. Although everyone thinks they can be impartial, internal politics and personalities can be highly influential.
There are a number of tools that can help R&D managers improve the objectivity of their decision making, and in different posts featured below our theme editors give examples of techniques that they have found useful.
It is only a month until the R&D Management Conference - if you are attending do let us know the subjects that you would like to hear about in future issues. Otherwise, if you would like to comment or contribute please do get in touch.
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Pasteur’s Quadrant: a wonderful example of KISS?
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Your scientists are all doing great work in diverse areas, but how could this work be defined to ensure it was creating value for the company? Stokes' model of Pasteur’s Quadrant provided the inspiration needed by Dr Joe de Sousa, Director Science & Technology at AstraZeneca to solve this conundrum.
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Analytical or Intuitive – finding a sweet spot for strategic thinking
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There are at least two types of thinking that managers appear to follow in developing business or technology strategy. Imoh Ilevbare explains the benefit of finding the middle ground between intuitive and analytical styles.
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Loading and Turbulence in R&D: Is there a Reynolds Number?
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R&D departments have to live with uncertainty because they are always doing new things. This is difficult enough to handle in a single project but becomes much worse in a department running several projects. So does some analogue of the Reynolds number, as found in fluid mechanics, exist in R&D, asks Rick Mitchell, and if so how can you use it?
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How distortions and deceptions impact the creation of technology strategy
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A high quality, objective technology strategy is essential, otherwise a company may find itself going in the wrong direction, or re-organizing its R&D around a misguided strategy that will impact the future value of the company, says Steve Bone.
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Open innovation: 5 essential tips
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Your approach to Open Innovation should be defined by the corporate strategy, say Professor Ellen Enkel, editor of the R&D Management Journal. A defender’s strategy needs a different approach to a prospector, and culture will eat strategy for breakfast if you don’t select the right people.
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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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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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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, the outreach website for RADMA, aims to make knowledge and expertise more widely accessible and to encourage the sharing of ideas between practitioners and academics. |
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