Strategic Innovation Services to R&D, Product and Packaging Design
Some people are naturally organized, and innovation teams need to keep themselves organized in order to leverage what they already know, use the knowledge of past-employees, make sure they are not repeating work, and to repurpose their innovation inventory of ideas/concepts. At Knowledge Management for Architects (note it’s a brand-new blog so it’s kinda sparse) [...]
On October 20th, I’m running a #innochat on the topic of World Patent Pendency rates. Pendency is the time between registration of a patent and receiving the Patent Award. As part of the event, I’m asking other #innochat participants to gather information on Patent offices around the world. We have a Google Document set up [...]
After this week’s #innochat, I was thinking about how you can avoid R&D management issues by managing intellectual property searches well. In the chat, Jeffrey Phillips of @Ovoinnovation described his 5 types of innovation failures, and asked a series of questions during the chat, you can find out more from his framing post. One of [...]
In today’s #innochat, Gwen Ishmael’s introduction had me thinking about what R&D skills each different leaders need in order to be successful. In a broad generalization, R&D project managers tend to manage internal and external resources to develop innovations for individual projects, while directors tend to also have a focus on how the work of [...]
This week’s #innochat had one question from the organizer that really inspired me to think about what skills R&D leaders need to master to be able to sell their R&D strategy. Here’s the question: @Renee_Hopkins Q3: What would be the best ways to become a master at innovation? My response resonated with a lot of [...]
If you look back on history, you get the sense that scientific discoveries used to be easy. Galileo rolled objects down slopes. Robert Hooke played with a spring to learn about elasticity; Isaac Newton poked around his own eye with a darning needle to understand color perception. It took creativity and knowledge to ask the [...]
