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Audio Session: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:00pm
Please join our exclusive 90-minute audio-session (60 minute presentation plus 30 minutes for Q&A) as respected expert, Mike Docherty, provides an introduction and framework for creating and managing your company’s networks of external innovators. This presentation provides practical advice and case studies of successful open innovation networks in action and a straight forward approach to planning, structuring and managing external innovation partnerships to drive internal growth.
Research | Posted: 2005-12-16
An Interview with Bart Huthwaite, Institute for Lean InnovationIn this interview, MRT spoke with Bart Huthwaite, founder of the 22-year-old Institute for Lean Innovation, about the application of lean principles to innovation. Huthwaite presents some of the challenges to lean methodology as it made its way out of the factories and into upstream activities. Huthwaite discusses what he terms Lean (or Value) Innovation, which focus not only on driving waste out, but building the right value in, across several dimensions of the enterprise. He presents key drivers of innovation and outlines an approach for lean innovation based on six basic principles. Download the accompanying presentation slides (44 slides) here.(6 Pages)
Quick Insight | Posted: 2008-06-13
In an April2008 audio session, consultant Tom Blailock,discussed using patent analytics as a method of developing competitive intelligence. Blailock focused on using patent data to develop a complete story around a particular technology. Making the patent data tell a story goes far beyond locating and gathering documents – it requires telling a technology story that a multi-disciplinary audience can grasp. To tell this story, Blailock relies on the journalist’s model of Four “W’s” and One “H” – Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How.
Quick Insight | Posted: 2006-04-12
At MRT's just-held Tech Scouting workshop, participants were eager to discuss their experiences with online marketplaces, search engines and other resources. One that got rave reviews is...
Quick Insight | Posted: 2005-08-26
Quick Insight | Posted: 2005-08-19
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Quick Insight | Posted: 2005-08-01