2016 programme
The Strategic Technology & Innovation Management (STIM) Consortium is a practice-oriented research and networking collaboration between industrial member companies and the Centre for Technology Management.
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Members of the Consortium benefit from:
- Access to a network of firms from a range of industry sectors to share experience through a regular series of meetings and engagement in individual research projects.
- The opportunity to influence the direction of research and development, with the associated early benefits gained through participation in case studies and application pilots.
- Transfer and application of methods developed, enabled by guidance notes and training packages.
A summary of the 2013, 2014 and 2015 programme and research portfolio can be found below:
R&D Management Conference 2016
The Centre for Technology Management hosted the 2016 R&D Management Conference at the University of Cambridge in association with STIM. More information is shown here.
Research project portfolio
The research projects in the STIM programme portfolio are summarised below.
1. Toolkit for resource efficiency in manufacturing companies
Resource efficiency is a key concern for manufacturers. This project proposes a toolkit for resource and energy efficiency (TREE) to support the integration of resource efficiency concepts and approaches in manufacturing companies based on five elements: (1) see waste, (2) find solutions, (3) set targets, (4) assess current performance, and (5) create good habits.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Dr Mélanie Despeisse
2. Integrating sustainable value thinking into innovation thinking using gamification
Gaming is a powerful mechanism for learning, creating engagement and stimulating creativity. This project aims to use gamification to bring together elements of two tools: sustainable value opportunities and organisation’s innovation opportunities. The tool provides a structured framework and prompts for idea generation around the topic of sustainability in the context of strategic roadmapping.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Dr Mélanie Despeisse
3. A serious game for IP and decision-makers
As firms more often employ open approaches for creating innovation, there is a growing need for adapted Intellectual Property (IP) management skills. This project designs a game that trains IP management and supports strategic decision-making concerning IP in multi-partner technology development projects. Among the educational benefits of gaming are active learning and scenario competence that participants enact in a neutral, risk-free, and fun setting.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Dr Ghita Dragsdahl Lauritzen
4. Roadmapping - embedding the process
This project aims to continue the investigation into how best to promote successful ongoing roadmapping within organisations and to build a repository of examples and guidance for STIM members. It will include interaction with STIM companies and other established roadmapping organisations, and a programme of open seminars for interested companies.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Clare Farrukh
5. Mapping sustainable value for new technology opportunities
This project aims to explore how the identification of wider value opportunities and the assessment of new technology opportunities can be brought together. A structured framework that prompts idea generation around the topic of sustainability will be used in conjunction with methods to assess technological innovation.
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Contact: Clare Farrukh
6. Serious gaming for STIM training
Approaches from serious gaming will be applied to support training in two STIM topics: (1) roadmapping, and (2) intrapreneurship. A card game will be developed to introduce the roadmapping process, while a ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style book will be written that provides an introduction to the challenges of intrapreneurship.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Dr Simon Ford
7. Match your IP strategy with your business ecosystem
This project intends to explore the interrelations between firms’ business model and IP strategy, i.e. how to link IP strategy with the business model to exploit IP’s value. The project can help improve the approach for firms to developing their IP strategy in alignment with their business model.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Mingjin Guo
8. Mapping corporate innovation projects and ventures
This project aims to map the evolution of corporate innovation projects and ventures to analyse technology management experience, including both successes and failures, and to explore how the approach used in this project could be utilised for project reviewing and learning. Case studies are proposed, building on methods developed for technology ventures as part of a related PhD research project.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Yuta Hirose
9. System design characterisation
This project provides an opportunity for STIM companies’ NPD teams to apply (beta-test) the System Design Characterisation (SDC) process to clarify the design specifications of their new products, services and product-service systems during the early stages of their development. It helps to identify design complexities and ways to simplify or remove them.
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Contact: Dr Imoh Ilevbare and Dr MH Yip
10. Business-aligned technology strategy
This project aims to deliver a practical process and set of guidelines by which a firm can better align strategic decisions regarding its technology base with the business strategy. Such a process should bring a wider and more holistic view to technology strategy, taking into account key technology management activities and decisions, with the aim of improving resource deployment and competitiveness.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Dr Imoh Ilevbare
11. Marketing technology
This project provides an opportunity for companies to apply (beta-test) the Marketing Technology process (an agile workshop-based process developed from existing CTM research). The process is designed to help technology managers ‘sell’ a new technology (or product) either internally or externally, and provide a compelling argument for its choice over competing alternatives.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Dr Imoh Ilevbare
12. Scalable toolkit platform
Continuing the development of the toolkit platform, research topics for 2016 are: Roadmapping-based landscapes – demonstrate the use of workshop methods to support the synthesis of information across the canvas of strategic landscapes; Agile-lean-visual management – explore the application of agile-lean practices to strategic technology and innovation management.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Dr Clive Kerr
13. Visualising portfolios
This project is developing visual representations for different types and aspects of portfolios (including pipeline and platform depictions). The specific research topic for 2016 is: Visual analytics for portfolio management – develop an approach for reporting and interrogating the multifaceted nature of portfolio balancing and project prioritisation/dependencies.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Dr Clive Kerr
14. Capability of business model innovation
Industries experiencing the stage of expanding to new market or transformation need to improve their core competiveness effectively. One promising solution is to innovate an operational business model to help the industries build an effective system. This research aims to identify critical capabilities to better integrate and implement the business model innovation.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Yan Li
15. Value creation and capture - recognising and communicating value
Value creation for companies involved in R&D and service delivery presents many challenges, including differentiating activities that create value from those that do not. Building on previous research, the aim is to answer the question: “Can companies measure and communicate the implicit value from R&D and NPD at a project level which will withstand scrutiny if also examined as part of the firm level?”
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Contact: Dr Val Lynch
16. The value of time in R and D projects
This project arises from work in 2014 that concluded that much of the delay typically encountered in R&D projects is due to process issues rather than the innate difficulty of making accurate forecasts of the work required. Tackling such issues may not be easy but motivation will be provided if companies can estimate, at least approximately, what the value of time/cost of delay and hence the value of possible improvement could be.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Prof Rick Mitchell
17. Time utilisation in R and D
This project arises from work in 2014 that concluded that much of the delay typically encountered in R&D projects is due to process issues rather than the innate difficulty of making accurate forecasts of the work required. The aim of this project is to find and efficient way for companies to assess exactly what issues contribute to inefficient use of their engineers’ and scientists’ time.
Download: Project poster
Contact: Prof Rick Mitchell
18. The development of business models to anticipate disruption
The development of business models to anticipate disruption: The research aims to understand whether there are patterns in the way managers re-configure their business model in the light of a looming scenario of technological disruption.
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Contact: Dr Letizia Mortara
