Innovation makes the world go round and some industries are more exposed to this fact than others. In this blog we often talk about changing pharmaceutical industry innovation practices. Telecom is another example of an industry for which innovation is a matter of life and death. Changes are deep and Read more »
Category Archives: Connected Innovation
Supporting an innovation culture: Part 2
Best Practices to ensure that your FEI software implementation supports and improves your innovation culture This article is part two of a two-part series on supporting an innovation culture. In part one, we explored the ways in which an FEI software implementation can support, or even improve the culture of Read more »
Innovation Metrics that Really Matter
Whether you’re “scaling up” your existing innovation program or trying to take it to the “next level,” the value of your program needs to be measured and demonstrated in order to continue to garner support from the business. Sometimes, the measure of true value of innovation can be elusive. Traditional Read more »
A unified Business Development and Partnering system, lessons learned from a Biopharma Leader
We recently finalized the deployment of our Business Development & Licensing product suite at one of the largest global pharmaceutical companies. This deployment represents a significant shift from a company that was plagued with the challenges and inefficiencies of a widely decentralized, geographically and culturally diverse community of business development Read more »
It’s 3AM, Do You Know Where Your Intangible Assets Are?
For many years, public service announcements and newscasts on television began with the phrase, “It’s 10pm, do you know where your children are?” In the decades of prosperity following World War II, as households increasingly were led by two-career marriages and children became more independent, this phrase became popularized as Read more »
True North – Where is your compass pointing?
In Steven R. Covey’s Book, the Seven Habits of Highly Successful people, the author writes that aligning one’s self with True North principles, meaning identifying with our own moral compass, are essential for all of the other habits in his book to work and have meaning. Written in an era Read more »
Winning at Dealmaking – Shots on Goal vs. Taking the Right Shot
Having just watched the 2010 World Cup soccer final end in a 1-0 victory, I was struck by a number of things. First, how a country’s fortunes, political capital, and all-around national pride are impacted by a World Cup victory… or loss. Second, how few points are scored in a Read more »
Do Mergers and Acquistions Bring Lasting Value?
Over 300 billion dollars of value evaporated between the moment the AOL Time Warner merger was announced in January 2000 and December 2009, when AOL spun off and started to trade as its own public company again. While this transaction is certainly an extreme case when measured in terms of Read more »
Internal R&D Projects vs Inlicensed Projects
Does your organization view its own internal R&D projects separately from in-licensed projects? Many companies treat their in-house projects separately from their partnered projects. This sometimes leads to emotional attachments on the in-house projects because people have lived with these projects for a long time. Partnered projects are scrutinized by Read more »
Connected Innovation and business models
I recently attended the World Innovation Forum ’09 at the Nokia Theater in New York (May 2009) and three speakers from that conference spoke about three themes that converged to provide a backdrop for a discussion on the essential capabilities a company needs to have in order to emerge from Read more »