Fourth Generation R&D: Managing Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation

by William L. Miller, Langdon Morris

Overview

Praise for Fourth Generation R&D "A sweeping and insightfulanalysis of an architecture for innovation in the knowledgeeconomy. Technologists, strategists, and organizational architectswill all find this book worth reading, as will students of themodern organization." —John Seely Brown Chief Scientist, XeroxCorporation "The new realities of competition beg a new approach toinnovation and R Fourth Generation R&D answers that challenge.With lucid arguments and detailed case studies, Fourth GenerationR&D sketches a powerful new paradigm for planning and managinginnovation. Every manager concerned with innovation and its role asa strategic resource—that's to say, every manager—will profitfrom this new understanding." Lawrence Wilkinson President, GlobalBusiness Network "Fourth Generation R&D is a tour de force. Itssweep, depth, and use of graphics are all truly remarkable (not tomention its command of the literature on innovation). Thedistinctions it draws between continuous and discontinuousinnovation—and between tacit and explicit knowledge—arefundamental." —John Yochelson President, The Council onCompetitiveness

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471240938
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	08/30/1999
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.33(h) x 1.23(d)

About the Author

WILLIAM L. MILLER, PhD, now at Intel, has served on the board ofthe Industrial Research Institute and has twenty-nine years ofexperience managing industrial R&D. LANGDON MORRIS is Presidentof KMLab, Inc. and the author of Managing the Evolving Corporationand The Knowledge Channel.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Innovation in Crisis.

4th Generation R&D.

Competitive Architecture: The External Framework.

Organizational Capability: The Internal Framework.

The Knowledge Channel and Market Development.

Managing Knowledge and Financial Assets.

Organizational Architecture.

Organizational Capability Development.

The Innovation Business Process.

Notes.

Index.