New Study: The Keys to Innovation for R&D Organizations – Their Own, Unused Knowledge

We recently polled R&D teams about how they use and share innovation across offices and departments, and the challenges they face in doing so.  Because R&D is a primary creator and consumer of knowledge, these organizations should be a model for how to utilize and share it. However, as we’ve seen in the demand for our intelligent indexing technology, and as revealed in the study, we found that R&D teams are more apt to duplicate work, lose knowledge and operate in siloed, “tribal” environments where information isn’t shared and experts can’t be found.  This creates a huge opportunity for those who get it right—to out-innovate and out-perform their competition. Read more and comment…

Let us know if this has ever happened to you – “I just wasted how much time?” or “What do you mean this already exists?”

Let’s face it. The more data available to your company, the less you know what you think you know.

Sound strange? Just think about it…and perhaps consider your own experience. Let’s say you are an engineer or product developer for a mid-sized company. Say the company has been around for 30 years, creates complex products requiring QA testing and perhaps regulatory compliance. At the same time, the company has grown to 10,000 people with 3,000 engineers split among seven different offices in three countries. Read more and comment…