Third Generation R & D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy

Roussel, Philip A.; Saad, Kamal N.; Erickson, Tamara J.

ISBN 10: 0875842526 / ISBN 13: 9780875842523

Published by Harvard Business Review Press, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Third Generation R & D: Managing the Link to Corporate Strategy
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875842526
• ISBN 13: 9780875842523
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Written by three senior consultants from Arthur D. Little, this book provides managers with a new approach that will make R&D a truly competitive weapon. Relates how R&D management has evolved from the naive strategy of hope approach of the 1950s and 1960s, when companies spent lavishly in the vague expectation that something good would result, to the more systematic approach of the past two decades. The third generation of R&D is a pragmatic method for linking R&D to long-term business planning. It shows managers how to: integrate technology and research capabilities with overall management and strategy; break down organizational barriers that isolate R&D from the rest of the company; foster a spirit of partnership and trust between R&D and other units; and create managed portfolios of R&D projects that match corporate goals.