A93 - The Sophistication of Organic R&D Innovation  Management Continues
2PLM e-zine,  Volume 16, Number 16, www.johnstark.com 
August 4, 2014
Description: In this third  of a six part series, selected findings on "Organic R&D  Innovation" from GGI's recently published primary research will be  discussed.
Three Organic R&D Innovation areas were researched:  Types of R&D Performed, R&D Processes for Pre-Product Development  Innovation, and Product Development Processes. All three of these areas were  researched thoroughly in our 2008 study enabling a pre/post great recession  analysis.
The  research was conducted by sending questionnaires to a wide range of companies developing  products throughout North America. Participating companies had headquarters  throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, but their response was for North  American R&D-Product Development operations. Complete data sets were  received from 200 companies. Consumer, industrial, medical, chemical, and  automotive/vehicular products were the top respondent industries. Participants  completed 31 questions detailing their demographic information and practices in  the following five research areas: R&D Operating Environment, Organic  Innovation, Open Innovation, Intellectual Property, and the Top Corporate  Metrics used to measure R&D and Product Development. The research period  was September 2012 to October 2013. The results were published March 3, 2014 in  a 138-page report. This research is statistically valid and provides a Margin  Of Error for each research question. 
2PLM is a bi-monthly  publication by John Stark Associates [JSA], based in Switzerland. JSA is focused on the body of knowledge of "Closed Loop Lifecycle  Management (CL2M)." CL2M is the logical extension of closed-loop Product Lifecycle Management and  enables the desired information gathering, processing and exchange throughout  the whole life of an entity from beginning, through middle to end of life.  JSA and GGI have collaborated on various  projects spanning three decades, including this publication of highlights from  our findings of GGI's  2014 Product Development Metrics Survey.
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