High Tech Troubles
R&D effectiveness of high tech companies is less than 50%. What is the trouble with innovation in high tech?
New Bill Attacks Patent Trolls: What Does it Mean for You?
Fake finger in your chili? A new act introduced in congress is designed to help product designers and manufacturers save time, money and energy spent fending off frivolous lawsuits. Here's how you should prepare.
Webcast Recording: Design to Value: Deliver Bigger, Faster, Value-Based Innovations
Best-of-breed companies use a Design to Value approach to drive game-changing innovation. In this webcast recording, Bill Poston and Reed Shelger share a client case study of a company that transformed its early phase product development process to successfully bring more breakthrough innovations to market.
Video: IP-Enabled Innovation, Part 1
Intellectual property (IP) is a key driver of growth, providing the foundation for product innovation and development. Join Joe Dury and Jerry Freeman as they discuss practical approaches companies can use to understand, manage, protect and leverage IP portfolios by developing an IP strategy that supports the business strategy.
Four Reasons to Take a Rapid Prototyping Approach to Your PLM Implementation
Many companies view PLM implementations the same old way they’ve viewed enterprise system implementations (like ERP) for years. As a result, they tend to follow the same old waterfall implementation approach. Alternatively, an agile approach leads to significant benefits and more optimal PLM solutions. Here's how.
Webcast Recording: Developing the Right New Products for Customers and Your Business
Too often, new product development is driven by guesswork, assumptions or the loudest customer or senior staff member. As a result, many new products that make it to market don’t deliver the sales, customer value or business benefits they should. Check out this webcast recording to learn how you can leverage leading practices to make sound product investment decisions.
Panel Discussion at UT Dallas: Delivering Value Through Managed Innovation
Innovation is increasingly becoming the top strategic initiative for many leading organizations. While widely touted as essential for growth, innovation can also be difficult to manage and measure on a consistent basis. On March 22, panelists will examine how attendees can overcome these challenges through a managed innovation process - without stifling innovative spirit.
The America Invents Act: Three IP Management Capabilities You Need
Leading companies strategically manage intellectual property (IP) and use these assets to generate significant revenue streams. But the rules in the US for protecting your IP are about to change. Now more than ever, companies need to critically access their IP processes and strategy, because the America Invents Act is coming.
The Value of Open Innovation for B2B Companies
We hear a lot these days about applying open innovation concepts to improve innovation and product development processes. The value is clear for B2C companies, but B2B firms have different challenges and needs that have caused many to hold off. Despite the challenges, the open innovation payoff for B2B companies is significant if done correctly, especially in today’s resource-constrained R&D environments.
Social Media and Product Innovation
This white paper explores social product innovation trends, shares results and use cases from our research and provides practical recommendations for companies looking to get started.
Embracing Quick Wins… and Quick Losses
When moving a new product or service through the development cycle, there are generally four outcomes a New Product Development (NPD) team can expect. Two of these outcomes are especially good – although which ones they are might surprise you. It may seem counterintuitive, but one of the positive outcomes does not result in revenue – or even a product – and organizations must learn to embrace this notion.
IP Strategies for High Tech: Answers to Three Common Questions
Last week I co-hosted a Webcast with Kalypso and Dassault Systems called “IP (Intellectual Property) Management: Setting a Foundation for Innovation”. Whether I am speaking in an event like this or working on-site at a client, I hear a lot of similar questions and concerns on IP issues, and here are a few of the most common.
