Strategic Innovation Services to R&D, Product and Packaging Design
Marc Drucker, President of Newlogic will be discussing patent reform at the “Structural Packaging Summit,” in March of 2012. Also presenting at SPS will be Jonathan Asher, Senior Vice President of Perception Research Services. Mr. Asher will be presenting on packaging structures ability to not only contain, transport, and dispense product, but also their package structures [...]
In this week’s cosmetics and personal care industry roundup, Newlogic’s strategy team review some of the latest developments in preservation systems. The method for preserving formulations has always been a challenge in cosmetics and personal care products. Cosmetic formulators need to adopt an appropriate strategy that is safe for users and able to preserve products [...]
In the cosmetics industry, consumer-oriented strategy is an important approach to R&D innovation. R&D leaders collect consumer insights to discover issues and improve the product experience. Aside from conducting market research, cosmetics R&D departments we thought it would be fun to gain a few insights through interviewing professionals in the industry. Among the list, we [...]
The summit for Packaging Outlook is fast approaching, and Marc Drucker, President of Newlogic and Andy Schroepfer VP of Enterprise Strategy at Rackspace will be talking about Cloud Computing for R&D Packaging professionals. To get some highlights of the upcoming the summit, we’ve been interviewing speakers. Eric Freitag, Director of Engineer Services at Smart Design [...]
Packaging Outlook is fast approaching on November 9th in Atlanta. Marc Drucker, President of Newlogic, and Andy Schroepfer, VP of Enterprise Strategy at Rackspace are speaking together there on the topic of, “Is Packaging SaaS Innovaton the Future for Packaging?“. Innovation Packaging Outlook From Jim Peterson In a follow up to our first interview with [...]
At first glance “category leadership” has a very simple definition, from the Financial Times Lexicon, the term is defined as to be “the company that sells the most of a particular kind of product.” But our exploration into innovation leaders, we found the benefits of achieving, and maintaining category leadership are significant in terms of [...]
Most management books are a waste, but two classics stand out as worth another look this summer if your manage R&D; “Third Generation R&D” and “The Living Company”. You can download pdf’s of both and take them to the beach. Time has distilled the wisdom in both of them. Here’s one: if you missed Arie [...]
From McKinsey; Overview of their strategic mapping process that enables forecasting of different investment strategies (performance vs. size).
Goodbye Acorn Park! A shout out to our friends at Tiax on their move to great new offices in Lexington.
Marc Drucker talked about the opportunity for healthcare innovation to address the needs of under-served communities, both patients and caregivers, at the FDA’s Public Workshop: Identifying Unmet Public Health Needs and Facilitating Innovation in Medical Device Development. Participants at the forum included FDA, DARPA, Department of Defense, NIH and the Office of Veteran’s Affairs.
