Sectoral Innovation Metrics
Sectors innovate differently and the metrics used to measure innovation in one sector may therefore not be as important to others. For example, architectural services learn a lot from the …
Innovation Networks Dimensions
Shorter innovation cycles, the escalating costs of industrial research and development as well as the dearth of resources force companies to find new ways of accelerating their innovation process. Innovation…
Knowledge Exploitation path to Innovation
Knowledge exploitation is the process of transforming, combining and reshaping knowledge in the form of research, science and technology into a tradable commodity. It is the general capacity to use…
Absorptive Capacity and Development Capacity
The innovation capacity of places combines two broad sets of capacities: their absorptive and development capacity. The absorptive capacity of places to identify, value, and assimilate potentially profitable external knowledge…
Absorptive capacity and economic development
The geography of innovation is diverse and uneven. Each city or region’s specialist knowledge depends on its economic and industrial structure; these structures consequently create diversity between places. By the…
7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies
7th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems and Technologies Website July 24-26 2013 Menlo Park, California, USA Digital Ecosystems inherit concepts of open, loosely coupled, demand-driven, domain clustered, agent-based self-organized…
International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2013)
2013 ASE/IEEE I International Conference on Big Data Website September 8-14, 2013 Hilton Alexandria Mark Center Washington DC. USA The current focus is to advance the core scientific and technological…
2nd International Congress on Big Data 2013
2nd International Congress on Big Data Website June 27-July 2, 2013 Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA BigData 2013’s major topics include but not limited to: Big Data Architecture, Big Data…
Benchmarking Analysis Implications
Benchmarking involves examining firms with a world-class product/service, process, or strategy and incorporating the best ideas from them into your own business in order to gain a competitive advantage. Benchmarking…
Product Differentiation Focus
A product or business with a differentiation strategy appeals to the mass market but seeks to set it apart by offering a product that is better than the competitors in…
Focused Reputation Analysis
Reputation analysis identifies a firm’s or industry’s perceptual image among key stakeholders based on a given set of factors. This is to enable it to improve its relations with them…
Strategic Rationale for Technology Forecasting
The importance of technology forecasting is its ability to inform current and future investment decisions throughout a business. It can provide valuable information about the likely longevity of a technology.…
Inter-organizational Business Analysis Pitfalls
When analysis is ineffective, both the analyst and the decision maker often don’t recognize it in time and frequently cannot identify the root cause(s) of the errors, problems, or failure.…
Organizational Levels of Intelligence Analysis
Intelligence analysis takes place at multiple levels within an organization. The three most common are strategic, tactical, and operational. These match the decision location and decision-maker components. Strategic Intelligence Analysis…
Competitive Intelligence Customers
The first questions any analyst must answer are “Who are my analysis customers?” and “What are their critical needs?” These can sometimes be difficult to answer, especially if the customers…
Competitive Analysis Importance
competitive intelligence-driven organizations and members of the analytical community face many fresh challenges. Success will be determined, at least in part, by how well these individuals and functions manage their…
organizational transformation Analysis
Excellent analysis is the key to successful insights and/or intelligence and can provide high-value strategic decision support capability in contemporary enterprises. Intelligence about customers, competitors, potential partners, suppliers, and other…
observation, imagination, and configuration
Observation, imagination, and configuration are the key tools of business design . The first of the three is observation—deep, careful, open-minded observation. Since design thinkers are looking for new insights…
Knowledge Funnel Navigation
Discovering mysteries starts within universities, government-funded labs, and other not-for-profit entities. Research professors spend their entire careers staring into the mysteries of their particular field. Most of their work is…
Create Sustainable Advantage with Design Thinking
Research In Motion (RIM) makers of the ubiquitous BlackBerry is a company with a market value of as much as $84 billion on the design, manufacture, and marketing of wireless communications…