by Paul White | Feb 21, 2018 | Best Management Practices, Cultural Aspects of Innovation, Innovation management, Leadership
Very similar opinions. Small differences. Most significant is the consensus on which practices – Factors – are most important!
by Paul White | Aug 13, 2016 | Best Management Practices, Cultural Aspects of Innovation, Innovation management
Few companies would admit that they are not innovative. While some companies place little emphasis on innovation and prefer to remain as ‘followers’ in order to reduce risk, others take the opposite view and desire to be effective at innovation, believing...
by Paul White | Dec 21, 2015 | Best Management Practices, Cultural Aspects of Innovation, Innovation management, Leadership, R&D investment
Recent announcements suggest that Rolls Royce has two major challenges. One is the obvious challenge of improving its financial performance but the second is more difficult and could have disastrous results if not handled well – its ‘stiff’...
by Paul White | Dec 7, 2015 | Best Management Practices, Cultural Aspects of Innovation, Innovation management, Leadership, R&D investment
HP, went from a company which was a great place to work – pre 2000 – to where some became demoralized, some left, and just this October was split into two quite separate organizations. Radical surgery. We revisit our earlier report on HP – up until...
by Paul White | Feb 8, 2015 | Best Management Practices, Cultural Aspects of Innovation, Profit emphasis, R&D investment, Reviews, The role and place of R&D in innovation.
Research and development investment is the ‘juice’ that drives the success of highly-innovative companies. We present our research into the impacts of a reduction in investment and identify two companies, P&G and IBM, which appear to be...
by Paul White | Apr 24, 2013 | Best Management Practices, Cultural Aspects of Innovation
When we profiled Apple shortly after Jobs passing and on the publication of a beautifully researched biography, our rating placed Apple well above our top level benchmark – the BofB – the Best of Breed. Thus its ratings exceeded a collage of our research...
