Welcome to the April
R&D Today Newsletter!
There is no shortage of challenges facing R&D managers, but sources of practical help can be in short supply. There are well proven tools and techniques available and we are making these easier to find on our refreshed website - take a look!
As always if you would like to comment or contribute a post of your own please do get in touch - we look forward to hearing from you.
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The Pentathlon Framework: Are you prepared to innovate?
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The key to successful innovation is to fail fast at the front-end where the impact on the business can be managed. Rick Mitchell introduces the concept of the Pentathlon Framework which provides a useful way to audit a company's readiness for innovation.
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Structured approach is the secret to successful R&D management
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Are your ready for the digital future? Phil Kennedy, Head of External & Digital Innovation at 3M, describes how he is helping the company respond to the digital revolution, building an ecosystem of external collaborators to help develop technologies that will drive growth.
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Why technology entrepreneurs fail to realise the potential of new product developments
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It was while he was working in industry in Japan that Yuta Hirose came to understand why so many technology entrepreneurs fail to realise the full potential of their new product developments. This realisation has led Yuta to design a strategic roadmapping tool for emerging technology ventures.
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Working with the best people is more important than employing them
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Mark Richardson had enjoyed his long career in R&D management at Smith & Nephew, but when he saw the opportunity to head up a new Biofilm Innovation Knowledge Centre he jumped at the chance to take on a new challenge, which would put his experience of collaborative research into a new context. We asked him for his learning points as a practitioner.
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Innovation and R&D management in family firms
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Family firms are more efficient innovators – they achieve greater output with fewer inputs – and finding out why has stimulated an interesting stream of research.
It is possible that family firms may use their rich traditions as a source of innovation – we asked Jasper Brinkerink, of the department of Organization and Strategy at Maastricht University and track chair for the R&D Management Conference, for his views.
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Join in the conversation on LinkedIn
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To help make accumulated academic knowledge, as well as well-proven techniques, more readily available and widely accessible, we set up the R&D Today LinkedIn group. Please check us out: we’d be delighted to have your participation in our growing community of R&D practitioners and academics.
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R&D Management Conference 2018:
R&Designing Innovation
2-4 July 2018 at Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Digital innovation, the Internet of Things, Big Data and AI are reshaping and transforming society and business – the 2018 Conference will provide a forum for new ideas and thinking on how to adapt management approaches to enable innovation in such a different environment.
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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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