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New in Innovation
Capturing the Value of Synchronized Innovation
Jason P. Davis
Companies that synchronize new product development efforts can see substantial benefits.
Outsourcing Business Processes for Innovation
Mary C. Lacity and Leslie P. Willcocks
Many companies pursue business process outsourcing to trim costs. But it can evolve into much more.
How Innovative Is Your Company’s Culture?
Jay Rao and Joseph Weintraub
The article includes a survey designed to enable managers to assess a company’s innovation culture.
Research & Development
Organizing R&D for the Future
March 19, 2013 | Marla M. Capozzi, Peet Van Biljon and Jim Williams
Executives from around the world agree that research and development is a global effort requiring collaboration. Yet many say their organizations must improve in this area — evolving from the centralized approach that’s prevalent today — to meet strategic goals. In other words, for today’s R&D organizations, there is a significant gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it. Vital as it is to their futures, the art of collaboration is one that many R&D organizations have yet to master.
This article both highlights this problem and highlights what R&D organizations can do differently. The prescription for what R&D organizations can do differently comes from a group of “high-performing innovators” — companies where respondents to a survey reported higher organic growth than competitors and attributed a large portion of that growth to new in-house products.
Not surprisingly, these high performers are far ahead of their peers in three key dimensions: collaboration, allocation of talent and capital, and the use of product platforms to drive speed to market. For example, 31% of respondents at high-performing companies said their organizations already make product-related decisions collaboratively, compared with 20% of all other respondents.
Continuous and targeted knowledge sharing is an essential element for collaboration and a prerequisite for innovation success. R&D leaders should ensure that sharing new insights, lessons and best practices is an expected part of daily work activities. These leaders should also clearly define which knowledge is most important to share.
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New Product Development
One of the core facets of innovation is the way creativity is brought to new product development. These articles look at how different companies approach product development, from consumer-as-innovator to synchronized innovation among companies and more.
The Age of the Consumer-Innovator
Eric von Hippel et al.
This article suggests an innovation paradigm in which consumers play an important role.
The User Innovation Revolution
Eric von Hippel (MIT Sloan School of Management), interviewed by Martha E. Mangelsdorf
Eric von Hippel is a professor of technological innovation at
Capturing the Value of Synchronized Innovation
Jason P. Davis
Companies that synchronize new product development efforts can see substantial benefits.
The Case for Standard Measures of Patent Quality
David J. Kappos and Stuart Graham
An essential role of any government in supporting its nation’s
A Challenging Question for Innovators
Image courtesy of Harvard Business Review Publishing Corp.
How Quality Drives the Rise and Fall of High-Tech Products
Gerard J. Tellis et al.
Image courtesy of Flickr user 1541.