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A review of Itanium server sales forecasts made over seven years reveals the same bias year after year after year. When the economist Kenneth Arrow was working as an air force weather forecaster during the Second World War, he and his colleagues found that their long-range weather predictions were no better than random. They informed...
Every firm we speak with talks about strategy, and yet for all the attention lavished upon the idea, few companies are able to craft a strategy that provides a clear path forward for the R&D organization. Why is it so hard? There are a wide range of statements that are interesting, useful, difficult to conceive,...
Molnbaserade lösningar är helt klart här för att stanna, vilket är en mycket bra sak för företag och konsumenter. I företag har SaaS-erbjudanden (Software-as-a-service) varit den dominerande molnbaserade lösningen på senare tid. Fler och fler organisationer drar nytta av de ekonomiska fördelarna med SaaS-erbjudanden inom ett stort antal programvarukategorier. Till exempel kan molnbaserade...
It is hard to open the paper these days without seeing a story presaging the demise of a another industry titan. If you believe the articles, Microsoft, GM, Xerox, Dell and many other bellwethers will face, at best, a slow, uninteresting decline due to their failure to innovate in ways that disrupt the markets in...
När jag reflekterar över tiden med produktutvecklare och innovationsledare från hela världen i PIPELINE 2012 är jag verkligen imponerad av flera saker: Jag är inte ensam om att uppskatta kvaliteten på de innovatörer, forskare, författare och produktutvecklare som tog sig tid att delta i PIPELINE®...
Sample playbook (click to enlarge) Over the years, we have seen again and again that how you present information is just as important as the information itself. Cram too much information on a screen or a page, combine nonessential and essential facts in one display, or fail to annotate a graph with important contextual information,...
Every November the Cambridge Healthtech Institute hosts a portfolio management conference for the life sciences industry that spans both operational and strategic portfolio management. We find it to be the best portfolio management conference in the U.S., and to steal a page from movie critics, “If you only go to one portfolio conference this year…”...
Av: George Shaheen, Sales Consultant & Product Evangelist at Innotas I del 1 av den här serien tog vi en titt på hur vi lägger grunden för framgångsrik resurshantering genom att dokumentera alla våra medarbetare, deras egenskaper, fastställa företagskalendern och slutligen tiden utanför kontoret. På denna starka grund kommer vi att...
I was speaking with a client at a large government-supported research lab the other day, and he reminded me of the success we enjoyed deploying the Enrich Portfolio System to support their annual portfolio process. When this group approached Enrich, they asked for help picking the winners within their portfolio, and justifying budget increases to...
We sponsored the 2012 Industrial Research Institute (IRI) Annual Meeting this month, and the primary topic was how to drive innovation in large organizations. These organizations have become large because they’re very good at some “thing”, which for the sake of simplicity we’ll call a core competency. This core competency is typically focused on a particular type...
