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National Defense September 2009 John Paul Parker |
At the Age of 50, it's Time for DARPA to Rethink its Future DARPA can be rightly proud of its rich legacy of innovation. With some bureaucratic tinkering, inspiration and experimentation, it can be even more effective in the future. |
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars. |
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010 |
Consider This -- Five Key Concepts for Sustainable Innovation Mastering these fundamentals can stimulate your innovation efforts and the global economy. |
National Defense July 2010 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr. |
Prescription for Ailing Army Acquisition Army Secretary John McHugh last month ordered a comprehensive review of Army weapons acquisition practices, management and oversight. |
National Defense April 2012 Dan Parson |
Industry Ready and Waiting for Armed Scout Helicopter Demonstration Industry is poised to offer the Army a laundry list of possible replacements for its armed scout helicopters, but when and if they will have the opportunity to display their wares remains unclear. |
Wall Street & Technology June 16, 2006 Bob Violino |
Top-Down Innovation CEOs have another - and an increasingly urgent - assignment to add to their leadership portfolios: driving innovation and tearing down barriers that may prevent it. Technology is playing a large part in new business models. |
National Defense April 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Ghost of Comanche Haunts Army Helicopter Leaders as They Push for New Models Army Aviation officers want a family of new helicopters. Not now, but 20 years from now. Two decades may sound like a long time - but its is not when developing Army rotary wing aircraft. |
IndustryWeek August 17, 2011 |
Smarter Product Development Global competition is in a take-no-prisoners mode. To compete, the U.S. manufacturing community is re-examining its innovation and product development processes to be better, faster and cheaper. |
National Defense October 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Future Vertical Lift Could Be Shot in the Arm for Industry The Army's forthcoming future vertical lift program -- which would replace thousands of aging helicopters -- will rejuvenate the United States' stagnant military helicopter market, experts and executives said. |
National Defense April 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Future Vertical Lift Takes Step Forward Army officials have been talking for almost a decade about new vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to replace its aging fleets of helicopters. |
National Defense March 2015 Sandra Erwin |
Defense Department Takes Steps to Energize Cutting-Edge Research The Defense Department is reorganizing its technology shop as it tries to light a fire under its science programs. |
National Defense February 2012 Dan Parsons |
Military Helicopter Fleets Showing Their Age Many models are expected to reach the end of their operational lives in the 2030 to 2040 timeframe. |
National Defense June 2011 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Measuring contractor performance... Acquisition failures... Rodents and IEDs... |
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel |
Manufacturers: Technology Will Make Rotorcraft Faster, Safer The Pentagon's investment in rotorcraft science and technology has decreased dramatically over the past 25 years, but companies have been tinkering around in their own shops trying to fill innovation gaps. |
IndustryWeek December 1, 2004 John Teresko |
Technology Leader Of The Year -- P&G's Secret: Innovating Innovation In 2000, the CTO of America's biggest consumer packaged goods company began his technology and innovation driven transformation of what some called a stodgy 167-year old Midwestern giant. Now, he's been acknowledged as its "technical innovation leader" by the company's CEO. |
IndustryWeek November 16, 2011 David Peace |
Strategies for Success in Product Innovation Two strategies prime your pipeline for faster, more profitable product development. |
Bank Systems & Technology September 24, 2009 Maria Bruno-Britz |
Bank CIOs Must Continue to Innovate While Cutting Costs More than ever before, bank CIOs must do more with less, continuing to provide business value through technology innovation while also finding ways to improve efficiency. |
CIO November 15, 2005 Michael Schrage |
Innovation Alchemy One of the most important things CIOs can create is the right mix of healthy environment and reliable process in order to foster innovation. |
IndustryWeek August 1, 2008 John Teresko |
Bookshelf: The Innovator's Guide To Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation To Work In this new book, the authors take the subject of innovation to the next level -- implementation. |
HBS Working Knowledge May 2, 2005 Hagel & Brown |
Finding New Sources of Strategic Advantage Now is a good time to take a fresh look at your sources of capability building, according to the new book The Only Sustainable Edge, by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown. |
CRM January 2010 David Myron |
A New Decade Brings New Ideas Organizations must position themselves in a way that promotes innovation. |
National Defense January 2010 |
Readers Sound Off On Recent Stories Defense acquisition woes... Recruiting talent... Technology challenges... Air Force tanker... Renewable energy... |
BusinessWeek August 27, 2009 Adrian Slywotzky |
Where Have You Gone, Bell Labs? Here's how basic research and strong leadership can repair the broken U.S. business model. |
CIO August 15, 2001 Sandy Kendall |
Innovation Generation This year's CIO-100 honorees stay ahead of the pack by creating breakthroughs in Products, Relationships and Processes... |
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF. |
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Despite SecDef Pleas, Pentagon Is Losing the Innovation War As a result of not knowing what technologies are available, the military ends up with systems that become obsolete within a few years. |
HBS Working Knowledge December 5, 2005 Govindarajan & Trimble |
Not All Innovations Are Equal Innovative strategies alone -- without changes to either the underlying technologies or the products and services sold to customers -- drive the success of many companies. But now, the long-term survival of a company depends on strategic innovation more than ever before. |
National Defense January 2007 Johnson & McLaughlin |
To Defeat Terrorists, Military Services Must Innovate, Disrupt By any measure, reforming the half-trillion dollar, 3 million-member Defense Department is one of the largest innovation projects in history. |
National Defense April 2015 |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories Readers comment on Department of Defense innovation strategies and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's unmanned aircraft system program. |
National Defense July 2005 Frank Colucci |
Helicopter Suppliers Must Modernize, Says Defense Industrial Policy Chief The Defense Department predicts that military helicopter suppliers will recover from the current slump in aircraft production if they invest in new manufacturing technologies. |
CIO March 25, 2011 Joe Eng |
Make IT Innovation Everyone's Job How JetBlue's CIO instills a culture of innovation throughout his IT organization. |
Global Services November 4, 2008 Jolie Newman |
The Innovation Imperative Understand the essential nature of innovation in outsourcing engagements. |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette |
The Weapons Acquisition Process: An Intellectual Disconnect The process used to procure major weapons systems is supposed to run apolitically. The actual process is anything but |
IndustryWeek October 1, 2008 John Teresko |
Bookshelf: Mastering the Hyper Cycle: How to Choose the Right Innovation at the Right Time STREET is designed to address the key challenges in selecting the right innovation at the right time. |
BusinessWeek August 14, 2008 Sharon Gillenwater |
How to Spark Innovation Why is it so hard to stimulate innovation inside big corporations, while at the same time VCs are awash in innovative business plans and people? |
Bank Technology News June 2010 Rebecca Sausner |
The Innovation Illusion Most bank executives know they're spending some money on innovation, but understand that the industry as a whole hasn't pushed the envelope in terms of R&D in recent years. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2013 Richie Etwaru |
Innovation Calls Across the C-suite: Lessons From Wall Street The lifeblood of the life sciences industry is continuous innovation; it is not a business that can survive by standing still. |
Bank Technology News June 2010 John Pyrovolakis |
Innovators: A Call to Action The Innovation Accelerator wishes to leverage great and innovative technologies developed in our nation's research universities and federal research labs on the strength of federal funding to empower our nation's banking industry. |
Entrepreneur September 2002 Katherine Catlin |
Practice Makes Perfect Introducing the top innovators of 1989. As you would imagine, they've done a lot more innovating in the meantime. |
CIO March 1, 2004 |
The Return of Innovation Make no mistake: Despite the past three years of economic doldrums, innovation is alive and well. |
HBS Working Knowledge November 15, 2006 Sean Silverthorne |
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her research into the classic traps of innovation -- and how to avoid them. |
CIO May 18, 2010 Filippo Passerini |
Think Innovation for Better Business Results How Procter & Gamble's CIO uses IT to turn business value into reality. |
IndustryWeek June 1, 2004 John Teresko |
Open Innovation? Rewards And Challenges Open Innovation is a strategy of finding and bringing in new ideas that are complementary to existing research & development projects. But open innovation does not just happen. It requires changes in corporate culture and must be driven from the top. |
National Defense May 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Army, Marines Plan Improvements for Cargo Choppers Army and Marine Corps embark on programs to modernize their medium-heavy cargo helicopters. Roadside bombs and ambushes have forced the U.S. military to increasingly rely on the skies to transport supplies and troops. |
National Defense December 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
In Securing Our Future, Innovation Is Imperative In the defense business, it is clear that things must change. Perhaps we should return to the basics of innovation. Throughout U.S. history, advances in military capability have been fueled by innovation. |
IndustryWeek November 17, 2010 |
Good Ideas Aren't Enough Manufacturers must improve processes all along the innovation life cycle to ensure product development success. |
BusinessWeek July 2, 2007 |
Scrutinizing Six Sigma The story on 3M's evaluation of Six Sigma triggered a vigorous debate among readers. |
CIO August 29, 2011 |
Finding the Right Road to Successful Innovation You don't have to be famous, or a CEO, to be a successful innovator. But to lead others in creating something new, you need a clear idea of what you're trying to do. |
CIO August 15, 2001 Sandy kendall |
How Things Change Five top gurus' views on innovation principles and practices... |
HBS Working Knowledge August 9, 2004 Anthony, Johnson, & Eyring |
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities -- and begin to create new-growth businesses. |