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The best of UK innovation
In: Strategic Direction 21 (2005) 10, pp. 32-34
opportunities through outstanding engineering innovation. Originality/approach – This paper presents many ideas for those innovators …
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Managing the innovation portfolio
In: Strategic Direction 23 (2007) 3, pp. 35-37
Purpose – This paper looks at product development processes at companies as well as project “selection”. Design/methodology/approach – The article analyses effective Portfolio Management and how companies aim for improved returns. Findings – One of most effective ways for all companies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015010124
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Embracing open innovation
In: Strategic Direction 25 (2008) 1, pp. 31-33
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to look at developments in the drive for open innovation initiatives. Design …, such as NineSigma and InnoCentive and also new entrants to the innovation market place, including USA National Innovation … Marketplace. Findings – As the drive for “innovation” continues, a rapidly expanding and ever more diverse group of companies and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015010344
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Learning at Royal Dutch Shell
In: Strategic Direction 18 (2002) 7, pp. 10-12
The “learning organization” is not an end in itself, but a route to improved performance, productivity and profit. Successful learning organizations can learn progressively and institutionally, and are able to avoid sudden and massive restructuring. Despite the confident rhetoric, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015009591
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China’s industrial revolution
In: Strategic Direction 20 (2004) 9, pp. 21-23
There’s a word which keeps cropping up in business magazines, newspapers’ business and financial pages, money markets and boardrooms throughout the USA, the UK and the rest of the European Union – and that word is China. Whether it’s fascinating statistics – such as 50 percent of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015009829
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A world beater
In: Strategic Direction 21 (2005) 7, pp. 35-37
. Findings – Imagine a product innovation that could reduce jet engine noise by 90 per cent, change the way car engines are …
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Shell: an advertising success story
In: Strategic Direction 21 (2005) 9, pp. 15-17
Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015009945
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An eye for innovation
In: Strategic Direction 22 (2006) 10, pp. 36-38
engineering innovation accolade. Design/methodology/approach – Goes through the innovations of the finalists for the awards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015010079
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A piping good idea
In: Strategic Direction 22 (2006) 11, pp. 32-33
Purpose – Aims to discuss Brinker Technology, the winner of the Innovative Technology category at the Offshore Achievements Awards; which helps to bring national recognition to the companies that are leading the way in all sectors of the oil industry. Design – Discusses the invention that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015010090
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Oil firm's strategy strikes “black gold”
In: Strategic Direction 26 (2010) 3, pp. 16-18
Purpose – Reviews the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015010475