As R&D executives cope with tight financial resources and demands for increasing new revenues, the pressure to measure their organizations increases. Metrics allow R&D leaders to optimize R&D’s productivity and justify to the CFO and CEO their returns on continued funding. There are actually rich sources of appropriate R&D metrics for leaders to [...]
Value Matrix In order to fine tune the analysis to arrive at a specific reasonable comparable royalty rate, a value matrix is constructed as shown in the “Value Matrix” figure. Patents describing products very close to the patent under evaluation are pairwise placed on the matrix (shown as yellow dots). Once the pairwise [...]
In their final report of their 8-year study of how corporations address sustainability, MIT Sloan Management Review and The Boston Consulting Group examined the crossroads at which sustainability finds itself in 2017. At this time, despite sociopolitical upheaval that threatens to reverse key gains, their research showed that companies can develop workable — [...]
The boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and woman are not passive before nature. By understanding risk, measuring it, and weighing its consequences, risk-taking can be converted into one of the [...]
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