No Easy Button: The Real Story of Big Data Analytics
Now that Big Data Analytics has become a hot topic, Big Data expert Prof. Mariann Jelinek observes, “the ‘hype cycle’ has advanced to include both puff and backlash.” Big Data enthusiasts often write...
View ArticleCan You Answer Your CEO’s Three Big Questions?
CEO’s ask tough questions before they fund an innovation. The toughest arrive like arrows shot in the heat of a management meeting. They aim to kill an innovation, to add it to their growing pile of...
View ArticleWill Your Company Be a Survivor?
Fortune’s June 16 issue carried it’s editor’s boast over the magazine’s 60th annual ranking of the 500 largest U.S. companies and how their collective profits exceeded $1 trillion (“Wow!”) More...
View ArticleNIH Researchers Join NSF Innovation Corps
On June 18, NSF announced a program for training NIH researchers in evaluating their scientific discoveries for commercial potential. The program, dubbed I-Corps™ at NIH, is a pilot of the NSF...
View ArticleCIMS Team Explores Using Big Data for Open Innovation
By Michelle Grainger CIMS Executive Director Paul Mugge is among the co-authors of a chapter in a new book on using strategic alliances for more effective open innovation. The chapter focuses on one of...
View ArticleExec Employs Innovation in Staffing Firm
By Michelle Grainger Lots of executives work in industries that have nothing to do with their college majors. But Rolf Kleiner of staffing agency Kelly Services—a CIMS member—has gone pretty far...
View ArticleBuilding Company Focuses on Foundations of Innovation
By Michelle Grainger The companies CIMS works with are committed to innovation. That’s no surprise. That holds true for a company whose industry—the home-building trade—isn’t exactly known for making...
View ArticleWant Great Innovation? Hire a Champion!
To consistently deliver new products to market, companies must embrace the best practices of innovation management. That’s hard enough to do, but it becomes even more difficult if the company’s most...
View ArticleTrying Out a Tool That Makes Patent Searches a Snap
When it comes to developing and sustaining innovation, keeping a close eye on intellectual property—both your company’s and that of potential competitors and collaborators—is critical. As part of our...
View ArticleBroadcasters Look to CIMS for Innovation-Management Guidance
The National Association of Broadcasters recently became the second association in the CIMS member roster, the American Coatings Association being the other. At first glance, the NAB, like the ACA,...
View ArticleAgricultural Biotechnology is Ripe For Innovation
By Paul Mugge CIMS is a nationally-based organization, with an international reach thanks to most of our corporate sponsors, fellows and researchers. With such a broad focus, we haven’t lost sight of...
View ArticleCo-Innovation as a Form of Open Innovation
By Dr. Terri Griffith One of the joys of modern publishing is that we can do lightweight experiments, a la ideas presented in The Lean Start-Up. For example, I am working on a longer article...
View ArticleLike Kevlar, Stephanie Kwolek was Made of Strong Stuff
As DuPont’s year-long celebration of the 50th anniversary of Kevlar® came to close, CIMS’ Innovation Management Report marked the occasion by publishing a tribute to Stephanie Louise Kwolek, the...
View ArticleInnovation System Works for Services, Too
A self-proclaimed technology and innovation evangelist, Brian Bowers of Bell and Howell is interested in ways to use change to foster growth. In fact, that’s part of his job description as Chief...
View ArticleHow Much Are You Spending on Innovation?
The CIMS Innovation Management Report, published six times a year, is jam-packed with informative, thorough articles on research in the field of innovation management and the management of technology,...
View Article‘Follow the Money’ To Locate Potential Business Partners
Editor’s note: The following article is adapted from the March-April 2016 issue of Innovation Management Report, the newsletter of CIMS. Its authors are Paul Mugge, CIMS executive director, and Richard...
View ArticleWant To Be More Innovative? Train Your Employees!
The disconnect is stunning: While innovation executives around the globe name innovation as one of their top three priorities, 70 percent of them rate their company’s innovation capabilities as just...
View ArticleHow Knowing More About Your Innovation Culture Can Help You Grow Your Product...
By Paul Mugge In the history of innovation, services have taken a back seat to products. It’s easier to create, launch and market tangible goods to consumers and even B-to-B customers. But should it be...
View ArticleHow to Foster a Culture of Data-Savvy Managers
Big Data is a buzzword, and for good reason: If used correctly, it can help organizations make decisions that lead to higher profits, great collaborations, and other business benefits. But Big Data is...
View ArticleFrom Stage-Gate to Triple-A: A Next-Gen Approach to Launching Products
In the 30 years since Robert G. Cooper introduced Stage-Gate®, it has become the most widely used process for steering product ideas to their launch. Still, the process has its share of critics, as...
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