This situation might sound familiar: your company brainstorms or applies other methodologies to generate a vast quantity of ideas; however, this process doesn’t seem to translate into a healthy, balanced portfolio of R&D projects. Certainly, there is an inherent ”creativity” among your people and a strategy is in place, but somehow the “killer ideas” just don’t seem to emerge. This Advisor examines four main challenges within ideation and idea management.
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About The Author
Ben Thuriaux is a Partner at Arthur D. Little (ADL). He works across ADL’s Technology & Innovation Management and Utilities & Alternate Energy practices and heads up the Energy practice’s Competence Centre in Technology, Innovation, and Digitalization. Mr. Thuriaux focuses on strategy, technology, and innovation management diagnostics and adapting innovation management best practices; organizational design and change (in energy and… Read More
Frederik van Oene is a Senior Advisor to Arthur D. Little (ADL), where he was a member of its Technology & Innovation Management practice prior to his retirement. With extensive experience of ideation processes, he focuses on helping organizations enact the changes required to improve performance and realize their objectives. Mr. van Oene has extensively worked in innovation, R&D and technology management, strategy implementation, and… Read More
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