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Topic: Research and Development

  
INNOVATION   |  Comment

New Math for a New Economy

BY Alan M. Webber
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:11 AM

What's wrong with the 500-year-old way in which all companies keep their books? Just about everything, says Baruch Lev, who has proposed a new method for determining the value of the intangible assets that are at the heart of the new economy.READ»

INNOVATION   |  1 comment

What Are Your Thoughts in Regard to Consumer Research?

BY Joe Kiefer
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Jul 21, 2008 at 9:29 AM

I am interested in knowing what people think about consumer research who are part of an innovation and design communities. Please tell me a little about what you find that has worked for you or has not worked for you in building ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Microsoft Skills

BY Carleen Hawn
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:48 AM

William H. Gates III is chairman and chief software architect of Microsoft Corp. He spoke with Fast Company about patience, fast-following, and the innovation gap.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

The Wal-Mart of High Tech?

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:48 AM

In this candid QA, Dell CEO Kevin Rollins discusses the company's supply chain strategy, approach to setting goals, and contrarian nature.READ»

INNOVATION   |  3 comments

What Money Can't Buy

BY Carleen Hawn
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:48 AM

Each year, Microsoft spends more than $6 billion on R&D. And for all that money, it gets...digital toilets and SPOT Watches. Is there a problem here?READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Lessons on Innovation From Microsoft

BY Carleen Hawn
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:47 AM

There are plenty of internal reasons why Microsoft's record of innovation is so lackluster. Not to mince words, Bill Gates's researchers have placed a bunch of expensive bets on technologies that haven't panned out. But the company's failure also points to three much bigger lessons about innovation.READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  2 comments

Can Philips Learn to Walk the Talk?

BY Ian Wylie
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:38 AM

Gerard Kleisterlee's turnaround program for Royal Philips Electronics is a high-stakes bet on a simple, catalytic idea: strategic conversations.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Innovation Awards

BY Michael A. Prospero
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 7:50 AM

How do you quantify corporate imagination? Meet the top companies on the first-ever Fast Company/Monitor Group Innovation Scorecard -- firms where new ideas are a competitive advantage.READ»

Ivan Glickman
BRAINSTORMING   |  2 comments

Booz & Company's Global Innovation 1000

BY Katie Barry
Relevancy Score: 100
Fri Oct 24, 2008 at 1:05 PM

Each year, Booz & Company analyzes R&D spending and determines the top 1000 spenders who are named their “Global Innovation 1000.” This year’s analysis takes a different look at the R&D spending and reveals ...READ»

Ivan Glickman
CANDIDATES' TECHNOLOGY   |  Comment

Budgetary Impacts of the Candidates' Technology and Innovation Policies

BY Robert Atkinson
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Oct 20, 2008 at 9:59 AM

The New York Times wrote a cover story, "Rivals' Visions Differ on Unleashing Innovation", last Friday that compared the budgetary impacts of the Presidential candidates' technology and innovation policies. Using ...READ»

LEADERSHIP   |  2 comments

The Thrill of Defeat

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:49 AM

Want to know how to motivate people to take on tough odds? Ask the folks in Pfizer's labs, where managing failure is a fine art and superhuman persistence an everyday habit.READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  1 comment

Herman Miller's Leap of Faith

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:10 AM

Like lots of troubled companies before it, Herman Miller slashed and burned--people, facilities, businesses. But at the same time, it took a deep breath and made a big bet on the future.READ»

DESIGN IN BUSINESS   |  Comment

YK2?

BY Lisa Chadderdon
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:07 AM

As we head toward Y2K on skis, snowboards, bikes, and skates, the people at K2 -- a top-of-the-line recreational equipment company -- treat their island headquarters as a totally integrated, indoor-outdoor laboratory.READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Effective Innovation: Large or Small?

BY Roger Smith
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 3:46 PM

Which companies are the most effective in investing in innovation/R&D? Large companies have many more resources to dedicate, but small companies specialize in what they know best. So is there a way to determine which gets the biggest ...READ»

BLOGJAM 2005   |  Comment

Building Your Company's Intellectual Capital Pool

BY Roger Smith
Relevancy Score: 100
Mon Aug 8, 2005 at 2:24 PM

As described in a previous posting today, researchers categorize Intellectual Capital (IC) as human (brilliant individuals), social (collaborating groups), and organizational (patents and databases). If your company is interested in ...READ»

INNOVATION   |  2 comments

Can Innovation Be Bought?

BY Roger Smith
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Aug 9, 2005 at 9:56 AM

In his Harvard Doctoral Dissertation, Saikat Chaudhuri (2004) examines the degree to which acquisitions are an effective path toward adding new technology and new products to a company. Acquisitions can be used as an alternative to ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  1 comment

Don't Have a Cow - Kill One!

BY David Beardsley
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:53 PM

How Mitel killed sacred cows.READ»

INNOVATION   |  1 comment

This Company Doesn't Brake for (Sacred) Cows

BY David Beardsley
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Dec 18, 2007 at 11:53 PM

At Mitel, the way to go faster - and to do better - is to stop spending time on things that don't add value.READ»

Zoybar
OPEN-SOURCE HARDWARE   |  1 comment

We Build the Parts, You Build the Product

BY Cliff Kuang
Relevancy Score: 95
Wed Jun 10, 2009 at 11:07 AM

The creator of Zoybar, an open-source hardware platform that lets anyone invent their own instrument, talks about "decentralized innovation."READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  5 comments

The Talent Magnet

BY Robert Buderi
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:10 AM

Kai-Fu Lee, technologist and self-help guru, is a raging celebrity on Chinese university campuses. Now Google is paying him upward of $10 million to build its research lab in Beijing--and to tap into the future. READ»

INNOVATION   |  Comment

Report From Power To Innovate 2009

BY James Todhunter
Relevancy Score: 86
Mon Oct 26, 2009 at 3:13 PM

What a week it was!  Last Thursday and Friday Invention Machine held its annual Power To Innovate conference.  The event was well attended and drew international representation of users of Invention Machine Goldfire ...READ»

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INNOVATION   |  Comment

Tech & Innovation Spending Show Corporations Are Recovering

BY Chris Dannen
Relevancy Score: 79
Fri Oct 30, 2009 at 1:49 PM

Despite cutting back on spending, big corporations actually expanded their R&D budgets by 5.7% in 2008, reports The New York Times. It's only half as much as the increase in 2007, but it hints that research spending is one of the ...READ»

B2B   |  Comment

#1 Economic Survival Tip: Cut the Right Waste

BY Dan Adams
Relevancy Score: 77
Fri Oct 31, 2008 at 2:18 PM

Warren Buffet said it well: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.” But even well-managed companies may feel a little “exposed” in this economic downturn. What are your choices? For too ...READ»

CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION   |  Comment

Calling for a Renewable Future

BY Ian Wylie
Relevancy Score: 77
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 12:40 AM

How Nokia has tackled the ultimate creative act: building innovation into the company's culture.READ»

STARTUPS   |  Comment

Mogul for a Day

BY Bill Breen
Relevancy Score: 76
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:43 AM

Fast Company senior editor Bill Breen was convinced he had the right stuff to be the top gun at a new-economy company. So we sent him off to try his hand at running a faux PDA firm. Our advice: Bill, don't give up your day job.READ»

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