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The Leading Practitioners' Resource for Product & Technology Development
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Workshop: Jul 16 - 17 / San Diego, CA
Workshop: Aug 13 - 14 / MIT Endicott House, Dedham, MA
Workshop: Oct 1 - 2 / MIT Endicott House, Dedham, MA
Dr. Getty, Global External Alliance Lead, will address how organizations master the building and management of global external innovation networks that will define who the economic winners will be over the next decade. Mastering can include creation, operating and/or participation in these external innovation networks “Collaboration Networks”. Trusted organizations will be able to access the collective wisdom of the globe in real time and competition will be network centric. This discussion section will focus on some key guiding principles for creating and managing a successful open/external innovation (O/EI) program within a corporate environment. For more information, click here.
Follow us on Twitter to read our Live Tweet of our webinar on May 22, Advanced Project Management for Product Development with John Carter of TCGen, Inc. We will be tweeting highlights and augmenting the content in real time. Our Twitter handle is @mgmtroundtable and we'll be using the hashtag: #AdvancedPM. There is also still time to register for this FREE 90-minute webinar that starts at 1:00pm ET, for more information,click here.
How are companies such as Procter & Gamble, Unilever, GE, GlaxoSmithKline, Kraft, Monsanto, Corning and other global leaders innovating new products, expanding boundaries and growing their businesses? How do they choose their scouts, their partners, and the best opportunities? For an overview, please download our recent research on the top practices.
Visiting customers can be a very effective way to gain insights that can help differentiate your product in the marketplace by discovering unmet customer needs that your next release can help address. However, it is important to conduct customer visits properly. Dr. Ed McQuarrie author of Customer Visits offers 16 tips to make your customer visits as effective as possible in this free download.
If so, you could be wasting time and money. According to Wayne Mackey, impractical and inefficient metrics detract from work and waste time by becoming ends in themselves. A metrics program should include only the “critical few,” says Mackey. To read more click here. [requires brief site registration or FastTrack Membership]
Where does your company stand with respect to global R&D collaboration? Maturity model describes four stages of offshore engagement, from least to highest potential value. [Requires site membership]
Survey by Goldense Group Inc. examines investment in external innovation assets versus innovation training - and the likely strategic impact. [Requires site membership]