Tuesday 23 November 2004
Radical NPD is intrapreneurship and of 10/21 firms say they all face the same challenges
After investigating 21 manufacturing firms, it
was found that the issue of resource allocation in radical NPD efforts inside
the firm inevitably cause the most pain. How do you mitigate them? My Changing
Strategies and Tactics for New Product Development to focus on external
resources in a skunkworks model. Does it cause internal stress w/teams and
those wanting to get ahead? Yes, but then again, no risk no reward and that’s
not something employees want to hear however there are ways around it as
presented here.
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Saturday 23 October 2004
Want more synergy between marketing + R&D. The Matrix. It’s all in the matrix.
The steps for full integration and connection of
Creating
synergy between marketing and R&D is detailed in this article in the
journal of Product Innovation Management detailing how large fortune 500 firms
are able to coordinate the efforts of desperate geographic groups and assure
that functionality and brand values are communicated to users.
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Wednesday 22 September 2004
Creative Propolution – pushing it forward
Sternberg, Kaufman, Pretz,
get it right in their quantative research on Creative
Propolution surrounding the 6 forms of
creative leadership for innovation launches. Although missing the point of the
initial internal senior management capability to stifle innovation due to
internal politics, regardless a fulland well organized model is presented. For a framework, it solves the basic architecture surrounding creativity in organizations. Based on the framework and a little awareness, any product can make it out. Here's how.
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Friday 20 August 2004
Stimulating the Potential: Creative Performance and Communication in Innovation Teams
How is it then to keep teams talking, and more
making sure that they are formally and tactily communicating across sometimes
disperse geographic environments? Technology? No. Micromanaging? No. Stimulating
the Potential: Creative Performance and Communication in Innovation Teams details 44 NPD teams in eleven companies,
and particularly surprisingly that interaction frequency and subgroup-formation
have negative relationship to team creativity. Why? Smaller is simply better.
Here’s how they do it.
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Monday 12 July 2004
Check your creative head: Order and Disorder in Product Innovation Models
How is it that creativity is mitigated in an
environment of corporate watchdogs and ROI demands? Via five NPD models presented: the sequential, compression, flexible,
integrative and improvisational models a mechanism for product innovation
management shows a changing position to less mechanistic, and towards organic
models of, in particular, creativity better accepted as Order or maybe
“Disorder” in Product Innovation Models
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Wednesday 2 June 2004
13 western sectors can be wrong: innovation isn’t NPD
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
western sector analysis it’s Improve quality, Open new markets and Extend
service range as the “innovation” capabilities that these firms focus on. This
is NPD. Further analysis shows alternative methods, the real crux of innovatin.
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Wednesday 12 May 2004
Want mature firm innovations? Justifying R&D ROI has it’s challenges there.
How are project conceived, and more R&D
justified to CFO’s? Financing
R&D in mature companies - An empirical analysis is that detail. Models
shown and techniques used to communicate as well as analyize and finaically
model create the framework for the toolset necessary. More a clear path to
R&D for IP protection is discussed and mitigated against the “get it to
market” only model.
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Monday 19 April 2004
Innovation and coordination - not much different than the artist/creator model
When management, vertical integration and
advertising are put in place it might seem that innovation is the lost. In fact
it often is. In Innovation
and coordination - A schutzian perspective we see a system of mechanistic
models stifiling the creative process however monetizing and tracking all of
the necessary steps to provide “safety” in launch. What to do, or what not to
do, the architecture is clear and determines your firms typology. Where do you
stand? It’s how your firm sings their own innovation song.
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Saturday 27 March 2004
Firm #’s in your sector shrinking? Why? R&D density. Start innovating!
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 industry sales determines sectors with high R&D intensity
are sectors with future forward competitive environments requiring intense focus
and investment to enter. And how to break in. Here’s how via a simple
theory and evidence on the determinants of firm R&D
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Thursday 12 February 2004
R&D apple seeds to hot apple pie ROI
The national science foundation is the precursor
to breakthrough innovations. When
does funding research by smaller firms bear fruit - Evidence from SBIR programs
gives the detailed systems on how to review and invest in the emerging.
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Friday 23 January 2004
Offices & staff in far off places? Can you literally listen for creativeity? Yes
Models for decentralized innovation parsing is a
mechanism for not missing weak signals for R&D investment, new client
possibilities or breakthrough products. But can you do it from within an
organization? Yes by using Insourcing
Creativity with Listening Posts in Decentralized Firms by utilizing 3 types
of determinants to listen inside an organization: trend scout, technology outpost and matchmaker.
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Monday 15 December 2003
Better ROI for R&D Internal vs. external R&D? Here’s how.
When German manufacturing meets western new new
product development activies, creative productivity can get stifled but not
when there is a balance between intenal and external innovation and R&D
activities. Only hiring internatl R&D teams? Only hiring external teams?
Home company worker performance is effected. Here’s how to mitigate thoese
factort to fully increase firm wide productivity with Better
ROI for R&D Internal vs. external R&D
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Wednesday 19 November 2003
NPD Rollout with forced Multiple country manufacturing? Customization is the key!
How is it that one product gets to market faster
than another and because production is in multiple countries? Coordiantion due
to the timing of differences in manufacturing capabilities across multiple
countires. How can you mitigate this? Customization
of Product Technology and International New Product Success: Mediating Effects
of New Product Development and Rollout Timeliness
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