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Fourth Generation R&d Managing Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation

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ISBN-10: 0471240931

ISBN-13: 9780471240938

Edition: 1999

Authors: William L. Miller, Langdon Morris

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Steelcase has redefined the role of R&D to drive innovation throughout the entire organisation, winning numerous awards for its products and services as a result. With this book, Bill Miller tells how he helped to transform R&D within the company.
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Book details

List price: $182.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/30/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.33" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

WILLIAM L. MILLER, PhD, now at Intel, has served on the board of the Industrial Research Institute and has twenty-nine years of experience managing industrial R&D. LANGDON MORRIS is President of KMLab, Inc. and the author of Managing the Evolving Corporation and The Knowledge Channel.

Introduction: Innovation in Crisis
The Challenge of Innovation
Clarity and Opportunity
A Final Thought
4th Generation RandD
Continuous and Discontinuous Innovation
From 3rd to 4th Generation RandD
The Approaches to Innovation
Competitive Architecture: The External Framework
The Language of Innovation: Theory and Architecture
Architecture and Capability Development
Defining Customer Value in a Discontinuous Market
Dominant Design
Product, Service, and Process Innovation
Product, Service, and Distribution Platforms
The Innovation Cycle: Architecture, Capability, Platforms, and Products
Market Architecture as a Business Process
Organizational Capability: The Internal Framework
Information, Knowledge, and Capability
Learning and Knowledge
The Learning Curve
The Path to Wisdom
Tacit and Explicit Knowledge
Communities of Practice
The Story behind the Story of Apollo 13
The Knowledge Channel and Market Development
Market Research for Discontinuous Innovation
The Knowledge Channel
Market Development
Point of Use and the Internet
Managing Knowledge and Financial Assets
Accounting
Finance and Decision Making
Investing in the Future at Intel
Signal and Noise
Organizational Architecture
Organization Design and Asset Management
Obstacles to Innovation
Sustaining and Disruptive Innovations
Learning and Unlearning
The Hierarchy
Specialization
The New Organization: Delayering and Relayering
The Chief Innovation Officer
The Story of HP's TMO Turnaround
New Processes and New Leadership
Organizational Capability Development
Improving Productivity on Many Levels
Strategies for Improving[subscript 2]
Measuring and Managing the Maturity of Capability
Executive Time
Future Enacting
Protocols: Learning How to Learn
The Innovation Business Process
From 3rd to 4th Generation Practice
The Innovation Business Process Map
The Innovation Business Process--Detailed Description
Notes
Index