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Advances In Innovation Management

Each year CIMS publishes three issues of the Technology Management Report Newsletter. This newsletter provides informative information about CIMS and articles about the latest advances in innovation management. Below are the most recent newsletters but you can view newsletters from any year or view all at once. Thanks to Mike Wolff, Editor of the CIMS Technology Management Report.

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  • Fall 2009 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Second Life: Why You Should Care
      Claudia Kimbrough

    • Tackling "The Strategic Alignment Problem"
      Dr. Alden S. Bean

    • Reflections of a Serial Innovator
      Carl Sisk

    • What Will the "Lab" of the Future Look Like?
      Dr. Mariann Jelinek
      Dr. Alden S. Bean

    • Learning to Manage Breakthrough Innovation
      Dr. Gina Colarelli O'Connor

    • Bring Ideas to Market With Innovation Ecosystems
      Dr. Andrew Hargadon

    • Can We Simply Switch S for P, or, Is Service Innovation Different from Product Innovation?
      Dr. Stephen K. Markham
      Dr. Thomas Hollmann

  • Spring 2009 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Riding the Information Tsunami
      Angus Kingon

    • The CIMS Executive Director's Column: The Power of "Impedance Matching" Dialogue
      Alden Bean

    • Measuring Knowledge Worker Productivity
      Stephen Markham

    • Pursuing Open Innovation

  • Winter 2008 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Monetize Your IP at Auction - NASA Does It
      Connie Chang

    • CIMS Holds a Bazaar!
      Paul Mugge

    • Services Innovation Demands Culture Change - Is Your Company Ready?
      William A.Steenburgh

    • CIMS Makes A Difference
      Poul Lindegaard

  • Fall 2008 PDF

    What's inside:
    • ABC Framework Can Boost Collaborative Innovation
      Lawrence Owen
      Charles Goldwasser
      Kristi Choate
      Amy Blitz

    • New Tools for 'Open, Collaborative Innovation'
      Michelle Grainger
      Paul Mugge

    • Five Researchers (W&M) Probe How to Make Collaborative Innovation Work
      Todd Mooradian
      Kurt Matzler
      Rajiv Kohli
      Jeanne Wilson
      Scott Swann
      James Bradley

  • Spring 2008 PDF

    What's inside:
    • How Boundary Spanning Works in Nanocenters
      Rosanna Garcia
      Dan Dunn
      Lynda Aiman-Smith

    • Open Innovation Spurs Biotechnology Development

    • Tech Mining Facilitates Open Innovation
      Alan Porter

    • Service Product Design
      Nancy Burchfield

  • Winter 2007 PDF

    What's inside:
    • What Xerox is Learning About Services Innovation
      Jeffery Grabowski
      Gabriele McLaughlin

    • CIMS Expands Support to Life Science Firms
      Paul Mugge

    • Your Knowledge Workers Are Different, So Manage Them Differently
      Stephen Markham

    • Join this e-Conversation on the R&D Lab of 2025
      Alden Bean
      Marianne Jelinek

  • Fall 2007 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Learning To Work at the Front End
      Frederick Renk

    • How Innovative is Your Company?
      Paul Mugge

    • Engineering Service Products: Stakes Never Higher
      Nancy Burchfield

  • Spring 2007 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Helping MeadWestvaco Turn Ideas Into Products
      Fred Renk

    • CIMS Support: Custom Fit to Sponsors
      Paul Mugge

    • Learning to Roadmap Breakthrough Products
      Angus Kingon

    • It's Time To Implement Skills-Based Innovation
      Stephen Markham
      Angus Kingon

  • Winter 2006 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Global Virtual Teams Can Be High Performers
      Mitzi Montoya
      Anne Massey

    • Help Your Boundary Spanners Work Better
      Susan Reid

    • Don't Talk About Culture, Change It!
      Lynda Aiman-Simth

  • Fall 2006 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Study Shows How to Get the Best from Your Best
      Steven Green
      George Farris

    • Developing New Ideas for Growth
      Paul Mugge

    • BP's Innovation Board: Lessons Learned
      Chris Brown
      Stephen Markham

    • Staying Innovative: What the Chiefs Must Do
      Gabe Cipau

  • Spring 2006 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Industry-University IP Relations Can Be Managed So That Both Sides Win

    • Helping the People Engaged in Innovation
      Paul Mugge

    • Stack the Acquisition Odds in Your Favor
      Gene Slowinski

    • Three Challenges Face Today's R&D Leaders
      William James

  • Winter 2005 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Interacting with Markets: Who and How
      Narongsak Thongpapanl

    • "What Do We Know?"
      Paul Mugge

    • Learnings from CIMS Nanoscience Grant
      Lynda Aiman-Simth
      Angus Kingon

    • Machine Staffs Diverse Project Teams
      Paul Bergey

  • Fall 2005 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Globalization: A Procter & Gamble Manager Reflects On What He Learned
      William James

    • New Director for CIMS
      Michael Wolff

    • Does "Rank and Yank" Really Work?
      lynda Aiman-Simth

    • An Entrepreneur Shares His Lessons
      George Farris

  • Spring 2005 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Help Your Virtual Customers To Help You Design Their Products and Services
      Satish Nambisan

    • Now Comes the Capability Crisis - Is Your Company Ready?
      Lynda Aiman-Smith

    • Crossing Death Valley Togerher: Industry-University IP Dynamics
      Mariann Jelinek

  • Winter 2004 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Strong Social Ties Predict Innovativeness of Virtual, Nationally Diverse Teams
      Cristina Gibson
      Jeniffer Gibbs

    • "Wicked" Problems Demand Non-Linear Approach
      Thomas Kriz

    • Hiring Innovators
      Stephen Markham

    • CIMS Receives Nanoscience Grant
      Michael Wolff

  • Fall 2004 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Managing Virtual Teams Is Not About Technology - It's the Behavioral and Social Issues that Matter
      Mitzi Montoya
      Anne Massey

    • What You Should Know About Change Before You Start Shaking the Branches
      Lynda Aiman-Smith

    • Learn from the Computer Game Companies
      Michael Young

  • Spring 2004 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Managers of Strategic Alliance Need More Than Business/Technology Skills
      Lynda Aiman-Smith

    • Innovators Must Also Design For the Marketplace
      Andrew Hargadon

    • What We're Learning About Innovation's Front End
      Peter A.Koen

  • Winter 2003 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Seeking University Research, One Company Encounters Variety of Policies Concerning IP
      Richard Hendricks

    • Selecting Metrics: Benefits/Caveats
      Eliezer Geisler

    • Visit the Game Players
      Michael Wolff

    • Concept Shaping Increases Odds of Product Success
      Leslie Kulis

  • Fall 2003 PDF

    What's inside:
    • As Innovation Embraces the Entire Value Chain, Managers Start Learning To Measure It
      Lynda Aiman-Smith

    • Dedicated NPD Resources Boost Your Firm's ROI - Only You Won't See It Right Away
      David Henard
      M.Ann McFadyen
      Keven C.Malkewitz

    • Watch Out for These Supply Chain Traps
      Robert Handfield

    • Be a Parent To Your Innovations
      Lotfi Belkhir

  • Spring 2003 PDF

    What's inside:
    • To Place a Value on Your R&D, First Determine the Kind of R&D
      Stephen B Marasco

    • Walk, Don't Run To the Nearest TTM Strategy
      Robert Casey

    • Is There Any Time Left for Inventing?
      Bill James

    • Make Your Alliance Work
      Varghese George
      George Farris

  • Winter 2002 PDF

    What's inside:
    • To Manage Innovation, First Identify Its Pattern
      Don E.Kash

    • Building a Winning (Virtual) Team
      Susan Cohen
      Chritina Gibson

    • Think Like a Venture Capitalist
      Stephen Markham

  • Fall 2002 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Virtual Customers Can Help You Design Their Products - But Should You Let Them?
      Satish Nambisan

    • Trust Matters (Trust Me)
      Lynda Aiman-Smith

    • Downside to Bayh-Dole?
      Mariann Jelinek

    • Spinouts: Consolation Prize or Strategy
      Michael Wolff

  • Spring 2002 PDF

    What's inside:
    • When You Manage Innovation, It Matters How Loud You Shout - and How Carefully You Listen
      Stephen Green

    • R&D Investment (the Right Kind, That Is) Will Boost Sales
      Susan McEvily

    • Product Development Made Faster, Better, Cheaper
      Robert Casey

    • Coming Soon: The "Post-E" Company
      Michael Wolff

  • Winter 2001 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Building Core Competencies Through Radical Product Innovation Is a 3-Ring Exercise
      Chistopher McDermott

    • Modularity Helps Engineers Get the Most from Their Product and Process Platforms
      Marc Meyer

    • What It Takes for Champions To Cross Valley of Death
      Stephen Markham

  • Fall 2001 PDF

    What's inside:
    • SpottingThose New Product/Service Needs of Markets You're Not Currently Serving
      Rajan Kamath
      Ratee Apana

    • Doing Something About Culture
      Lynda Aiman-Smith

    • Getting Started on Knowledge Creation
      Peter Koen

    • IBM Views State of E-Business
      Irving Wladawsky

  • Spring 2001 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Learn to Use Those New Electronic Information Tools and Products or Be Replaced!
      Alan Porter

    • Continuity or Discontinuity? What You Believe Can Influence How You Lead
      Andrew Hargadon

    • Layoffs Hurt - Just Read the Literature!
      Lynda Aiman-Smith

    • No Revenue Model Yet for Incubators
      Morton Hansen

  • Fall 2000 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Virtual Team Pose Special Challenges - Here's How to Make Them Work In Your Organization
      Susan Cohen
      Christina Gibson

    • Teams Perform Better After Meeting at Start
      Ed McDonough
      Gloria Barczak

    • Jury Still Out on Incubator Effectiveness
      Morton Hansen

    • Finding Experts in China
      Michael Wolff

  • Volume 4 1999 PDF

    What's inside:
    • For Effective Knowledge Management, Link Your IT-Based Systems with the "Human-Intensive" Ones
      Paul Almeida

    • Four Formative Stages Dominate Alliance Life Cycles -- Ignore Them At Your Peril
      Varghese George
      George Farris

  • Volume 3 1999 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Shareholder Value Metrics Can Boost R&D Investment and, Ultimately, Stock Price
      John Gallagher

    • Technology Context Helps To Explain How R&D Spending Affects Return on Investment
      Susan McEvily

  • Volume 2 1999 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Yes, Projects Need Champions -- But Don't Count on Them to Guarantee Project Success
      Stephen Markham

    • External Communication Boosts Team Performance
      Robert Keller

  • Volume 1 1999 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Concurrent Engineering Can Improve Product Development Performance: Here's How
      Denis Lee

    • Focus on Culture, Champions and Prior Outcomes To Strengthen Your University Technology Partnership
      Michael Santoro
      Alok Chakrabarti

  • Volume 5 1998 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Speed vs. Quailty: The Tradeoff Is Not Inevitable
      Barbara Flynn

    • Activity Management Can Be Applied to Design, Engineering and R&D/Innovation
      Manash Ray
      Mikell

  • Volume 3 1998 PDF

    What's inside:
    • At Innovative Companies, Market Visioning Links Advanced Technologies to Commercial Opportunities
      Gina Colarelli
      Robert Veryzer

    • Simple Tools Help Alliance Managers Keep Control
      Gene Slowinski

  • Volume 2 1998 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Raising the Cost-Consciousness of R&D Professionals Takes Training, Involvement, Management Support
      Michael Shields
      Mark Young

    • Acceleration Trap Ahead -- Proceed with Caution
      Carey Curtis

  • Volume 1 1998 PDF

    What's inside:
    • HAndle with Care: Project Postmortems May Not Be Best Prescription for Technological Innovation
      Gary Lynn

    • Management Practices To Follow - and To Avoid
      Carey Curtis

  • Volume 5 1997 PDF

    What's inside:
    • R&D Contributes More to a Company's Financial Health than Many General Managers Thing...
      Carey Curtis

    • ...but Investing in R&D Is Not Always Best Strategy.
      Bala Chakravarthy
      Sue McEvily

  • Volume 4 1997 PDF

    What's inside:
    • How To Foster Innovation -- Against All Odds
      Robert Page

    • Managing 'Complex' Technologies Means Managing Increments, Trajectories and Transitions
      Don Kash

  • Volume 3 1997 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Managing Breakthrough Innovation Demands Methods That Are Fundamentally Different -- and Generally Unfamiliar!
      Joseph Morone

    • How Valuable Is Your Patent? Here's a Way of Usting Citations To Find Out
      Mary Ellen Mogee

  • Volume 2 1997 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Escaping the Acceleration Trap, or, How to Shorten Cycle Time Without Going Broke
      Carey Curtis

    • Teams Don't Stay Small By Themselves - - Managers Must Consciously Work To Keey Them Small
      Erran Carmel

  • Volume 1 1997 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Assess the Climate for Creativity Within Your Department, Division or Small Organization
      Teresa Amabile

    • Concurrent Engineering Taking Hold
      Denis Lee

  • Volume 6 1996 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Removing the Incentives for Game Playing in Research Joint Ventures
      James Dearden

    • Job Involvement Can Predict Scientists' Performance
      Robert Keller

    • Improve Your Leadership Skills Via the Web
      David Waldman
      Bernard Bass

  • Volume 5 1996 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Technology Brokers Draw on Their Organizational Memory To Connect New Products with Existing Solutions
      Andrew Hargadon

    • Asian Manufacturing Sites Are Learning Laboratories for Tomorrow
      Rajan Kamath
      Ratee Apana

  • Volume 4 1996 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Our R&D Benchmarking Data Is Available -- Use It!
      Alden Bean

    • Preparing for the Unexpected is Top Challenge -- Is Your Organization Too Efficient?
      Philip Anderson
      Michael Tushman

    • Making Drug Development Decisions: Know Your Place
      Thomas Allen
      Frank Basa

  • Volume 3 1996 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Developing and Renewing Product Families Calls for New 'Thought Architectures'
      March Meyer
      James Utterback

    • Outsourcing Alliances May Slow Market Entry
      Philip Birnbaum-More

  • Volume 2 1996 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Computer Nets Demand More, Not Less, Interaction
      Paul Hart
      Carol Sanders

    • Malaysian Suppliers Struggle To Meet Demand While Korean Manufacturers Seek Latest Technology
      Rajan Kamath
      Ratee Apana

    • Lessons from CIMS Cycle-Time Research
      Michael Wolff

  • Volume 1 1996 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Innovation Networks Call for New Management Style
      Don Kash
      Robert Rycroft

    • Alliance Networks: Why They Form, Why THey Work
      Varghese George

    • How Construction Firms Learn About Innovation
      David Veshosky

  • Spring 1995 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Time To Internationalize R&D Metrics Search?
      Alden Bean

    • You Can Reduce the Pain of Downsizing
      Teresa Amabile

    • In A Global Arena, Technology Transfer Goes Beyond Alliances
      Joseph Cheng

    • Managing a Diverse R&D Workforce Requires That You Employ Diverse Strategies
      George Farris
      Nacy DiTomaso
      Rene Cordero

  • Winter 1994 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Is Virtual R&D for Real? Only With a Network!
      Alden Bean

    • 7 Steps To a More Innovative Organization
      John Dickey
      Amanda Roe

    • It's Time To Take a Look at Activity-Based Managements for R&D Operations
      Manash Ray
      Theodore Schlie

    • Map Your Competitor's Technology Strategy By Analkyzing Patent Citations
      Mary Ellen Mogee

  • Spring 1994 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Put People First When You Re-engineer
      Alden Bean

    • Fast Product Teams Are True To Their Culture
      Philip Birnbaum-More

    • Assessing Consortium Effectiveness Demands Criteria For Measuring That Effectiveness
      Paul Olk

    • Educate for Cultural Differences When Staffing International Joint Ventures
      Robert Mason

  • Fall 1993 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Measure R&D Effectiveness, Not Efficiency
      Alden Bean

    • When To Nurture Projects, When To Walk Away
      Ann Welsh
      Gordon Delher
      Stephen Green

    • Your Pollution Control Deparment Can Be A Conduit of Production Innovation
      Andrew King
      Stephan Schrader

    • R&D Managers Need Different Abilities at Different Rungs on the Management Ladder
      Lee Friedman
      Edwin Fleishman
      Jennifer Mikulka

  • Spring 1993 PDF

    What's inside:
    • Make Tech Service Boost Your Firm's Competitive Performance
      Alden Bean

    • Go Slow On Time-Based Competition - Speed Isn't Always the Best Goal
      Marc Meyer
      James Utterback

    • Working with Federal Laboratories Pays Off - but Not the Way You May Think
      David Roessner

    • Concurrent Engineering: Silver Bullet or Cardboard Blank? & In R&D, Leadership Does Matter
      Denis Lee

  • Winter 1992 PDF

    What's inside:
    • R&D Databases Benefit You and Your Firm
      Alden Bean

    • How Some General Management Build Competitive Advantage Through Technology
      Joseph Morone

    • Diverse Workforce Calls for Different Style of Managing Technical Professionals
      George Farris
      Nanacy DiTomaso

    • Is That New R&D Project Doomed? & Selecting A Research Consortium Rep
      Stephen Green
      Ann Welsh
      Gordon Delher

  • Spring 1992 PDF

    What's inside:
    • R&D Must Benchmark Its Performance Better
      Alden Bean

    • How To Succeed As a Technology Partner
      Gene Slowinski
      Frank Hull

    • It Takes More Than a Paycheck To Reward Engineers and Scientists
      Thomas Allen

    • Patents Aid Competitor Intelligence
      Mary Ellen Mogee

  • Winter 1991 PDF

    What's inside:
    • The U.S. is Eating Its Own Seed Corn
      Alden Bean

    • Expert System Speeds Product Decisions
      M.J. Liberatore

    • Manage Product Families - Not Products!
      Susan Sanderson

    • Management Must Make Teamwork Work & Picking R&D Leaders
      David Caldwell
      Deborah Ancona