Friday, 20 August 2004

Stimulating the Potential: Creative Performance and Communication in Innovation Teams

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How is it then to keep teams talking, and more making sure that they are formally and tactily communicating across sometimes disperse geogra...
Monday, 12 July 2004

Check your creative head: Order and Disorder in Product Innovation Models

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How is it that creativity is mitigated in an environment of corporate watchdogs and ROI demands? Via five NPD models presented: the sequenti...
Wednesday, 2 June 2004

13 western sectors can be wrong: innovation isn’t NPD

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When innovation is used incorrectly as NPD a damaging effect occurs: a low down of the reality of breakthrough. Via the results of a 13 west...
Wednesday, 12 May 2004

Want mature firm innovations? Justifying R&D ROI has it’s challenges there.

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How are project conceived, and more R&D justified to CFO’s? Financing R&D in mature companies - An empirical analysis is that detai...
Monday, 19 April 2004

Innovation and coordination - not much different than the artist/creator model

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When management, vertical integration and advertising are put in place it might seem that innovation is the lost. In fact it often is. In In...
Saturday, 27 March 2004

Firm #’s in your sector shrinking? Why? R&D density. Start innovating!

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What is R&D density and why is it important to your survival? The inverse of average firm sales or simply the number of firms divided by...
Thursday, 12 February 2004

R&D apple seeds to hot apple pie ROI

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The national science foundation is the precursor to breakthrough innovations. When does funding research by smaller firms bear fruit - Evide...
Friday, 23 January 2004

Offices & staff in far off places? Can you literally listen for creativeity? Yes

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Models for decentralized innovation parsing is a mechanism for not missing weak signals for R&D investment, new client possibilities or ...
Monday, 15 December 2003

Better ROI for R&D Internal vs. external R&D? Here’s how.

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When German manufacturing meets western new new product development activies, creative productivity can get stifled but not when there is a ...
Wednesday, 19 November 2003

NPD Rollout with forced Multiple country manufacturing? Customization is the key!

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How is it that one product gets to market faster than another and because production is in multiple countries? Coordiantion due to the timin...
Sunday, 5 October 2003

Industrial New Product Launch Strategies and Product Development Performance

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Previously it used to be simply how many do we make? Forgetting what to launch, where to launch, when to launch and why to launch are the ke...
Friday, 5 September 2003

Innovate or Die - Is that a Fact? Yes with the proper foundation. Time.

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Mechanism for incremental NPD efforts is the assumption that the NPD efforts are based on Now and not a the time honored R&D model o...
Tuesday, 12 August 2003

Coping with Chaos in Change Processes? Here’s how.

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Three models to embrace chaos and base their change practice are discussed via enlightened modern, an ironic, and a postmodern mechanism for...