by Ralph Morales III | Feb 12, 2020 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
Chapter Two: Prioritizing the Value of Evidence After my stint as the finance director for HP’s effort to enter the on-demand photo printing market, I transitioned into the role of Innovation Scout for HP’s foray into consumer wearables. Back in the 1970s, HP tried to...
by Ralph Morales III | Jan 8, 2020 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
Managing Innovation Innovation is a source of fascination and fear for executives and managers of enterprise companies. Various surveys of business leaders by Harvard Business School, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Innovation Leader put the problem for enterprise...
by David Matheson | Nov 13, 2019 | ValuePoint™
Do you have more innovation projects than innovators to work on them? 5G, the Internet of Things, CRISPR: new technologies and business models are coming to disrupt your business and force you to innovate. If you’re scrambling to create R&D projects to deal with...
by David Matheson | Jun 11, 2019 | ValuePoint™
At the Front End of Innovation event in Boston last month, Alexa Dembek of DuPont and Neal Gutterson of Corteva Agriscience shared their perspectives on navigating the Merger of the Century between DuPont and Dow Chemical. The merged DowDuPont has split into three...
by David Matheson | May 8, 2019 | Strategic Portfolio Management, ValuePoint™
At a recent workshop, a group of 35 R&D and innovation executives in industries ranging from automotive to healthcare came together to benchmark improvement potential. Each selected a real example project from their portfolio and applied an estimation model based...
by David Matheson | Apr 9, 2019 | Innovation Management, ValuePoint™
Breakthrough innovation takes an organization out of its familiar comfort zone into a realm of uncertainty. Unlike incremental innovations into existing product domains and markets, where the behavior of technology and customers is well understood, breakthrough...
