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Value Stream Mapping for Lean Development
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 45.00Customers and markets identify needs and problems and companies design products and services to fill or solve them. The development process is often a root cause for customer dissatisfaction. This title provides an how-to guide to value stream mapping that highlights its impact on product development and accompanying processes. more...
Managing Global Innovation
Springer 2008; US$ 99.99What are the secrets of competitive R&D on a global scale? Based on empirical research with hundreds of R&D executives from more than 80 companies amd 1000 R&D laboratories, the authors present new concepts and trends in global R&D management. Case studies from 22 best-practice companies illustrate how to put these concepts into practice. Adding new examples... more...
Collaborative Research and Development Projects
Springer 2007; US$ 54.99Helps individuals and organizations, from both academia and industry, to work together on R&D projects. Whether grant funded, company to company, or academic to company, this book covers winning grant support, the legal arrangements, working with academics and practitioners, managing project progress, and exploiting the project results. more...
Value Driven Product Planning and Systems Engineering
Springer 2007; US$ 94.99Engineers and scientists often need to sell an innovative idea for a new product or a new product improvement to top management. Sometimes their tendency is to focus on the WOW of the new technology at the expense of making a convincing business case. When the new technology represents a large cost reduction, there will be much less of a problem in... more...
R&D and Productivity
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 45.00Zvi Griliches, a world-renowned pioneer in the field of productivity growth, has compiled in a single volume his pathbreaking research on R&D and productivity. Griliches addresses the relationship between research and development (R&D) and productivity, one of the most complex yet vital issues in today's business world. Using econometric techniques,... more...
Think, Play, Do
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 49.99Without innovation, companies die. Managing the innovation process well is important for companies and for nations as a whole. This book shows how the innovation process is changing profoundly, with significant implications for managers and public policy-makers. A new kind of technology, 'innovation technology' is being applied to the innovation... more...
Innovation System Frontiers
Springer 2009; US$ 79.99Economic transformations in the world economy are progressing in two divergent directions - international production fragmentation and industrial agglomeration. Based on the data analysis and using models of interdependencies between key economies, this book analyses innovation systems that cross national borders. more...
Inside the Patent Factory
Wiley 2008; US$ 60.00The book is a coaching guide for anyone interested in intellectual property and those wanting to embark on or develop patent creation. It draws on the authors’ extensive experience and insights from change projects, management and leadership at Nokia. The book guides the reader through each stage of setting up a successful unit, inviting active... more...
Design Is How It Works
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 25.95"It's not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."-Steve Jobs There's a new race in business to embrace "design thinking." Yet most executives have no clue what to make of the recent buzz about design. It's rarely the subject of business retreats. It's not easily measurable. To many, design is simply a crapshoot. Drawing... more...
Managing Research, Development and Innovation
Wiley 2010; US$ 140.00Now fully revised and updated—the classic book on effective R&D management "This thoughtful and detailed work outlines what is required in order to achieve the desired end results in a networked world where teamwork and collaboration are increasingly important to globally dispersed workforces." — John Chambers , Chairman and CEO,... more...









