Got the right tools for the job?

All too often R&D managers work in silos without the opportunity to share best practice and gain insights about useful tools and techniques. In this newsletter we examine learning points from the digital industry, why some standards get more widely accepted and review the contribution that funding from RADMA has made to new branches of academic study.

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.

Accelerating product development: the tools you need now - a review

Could tools used by the digital industry provide answers for more traditional sectors? McKinsey published an interesting article about the tools and techniques that digital companies use to great effect and asks if the more established industries are missing an opportunity. Steve Bone offers his opinion.

Why do some industry standards become widely accepted and others sidelined?

This was one of the questions addressed by Geerten van de Kaa in a paper about the role of networks in supporting dominance of some standards.

Geerten described the research for us.

Ask which are the most useful tools for R&D Management and you will find it is a very subjective question.

However, in talking to a range of practitioners we have found that some powerful tools and techniques are not widely used by others working in this field, so the Trustees of RADMA have decided to try and share this knowledge by conducting a survey.

We would appreciate your input so please take a minute to complete the simple survey.

The motivations for R&D collaboration fall into a number themes including: securing strategic resources; gaining best value with limited resources; cost minimisation and policy decisions.

Kyung Ju Han of the University of Sussex has been studying these motivations and was grateful for the generous funding provided by RADMA in 2017 which supported his Postgraduate Student fieldwork research in South Korea. Here he discussses his research.

Digitisation and connectivity are changing the product lifecycle model, comments Antti Lyyra of the London School of Economics and Political Science, who was supported by a grant from RADMA to present his paper entitled "Design after Manufacturing: Case-study Tesla Model S" at a conference.
He comments on his research.

Market-driven Innovation in R&D
25-27 September 2019

Speakers from Bayer, BASF, Siemens and Johnson & Johnson describe their experiences of agile, benchmarking innovation and new trends at this conference.

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R&D Management Conference 2020
27 June -1 July 2020, Glasgow

2020 is the 40th anniversary of the R&D Management Conference and it will have the theme “Innovation Across Boundaries: Historical Reflection and Future Vision”.

It will review the knowledge and social capital accrued in the R&D Management community over the past 40 years.

It will also be looking to the future at the trends and trajectory of Innovation Management. Read more here.

R&D Management Symposium 2020
4 - 5 August, 2020, Vancouver, Canada

RADMA invites you to come and join us in Vancouver at the R&D Management Symposium, to discuss and debate research, experience and pedagogy on the theme of Invention to Innovation: Creating the Conditions for Impact. See more information here.

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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.

Got the right tools for the job?

Accelerating product development: the tools you need now - a review

Who's pulling the strings? The influence of network structure on standard dominance

What are the most useful tools for R&D management? Your input is needed

RADMA: Celebrating 40 years - unpicking the motivations for R&D collaboration

RADMA: Celebrating 40 years - Design after manufacture lessons from Tesla

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