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Fourth Generation R&D: Managing Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation |  | Authors: William L. Miller, Langdon Morris
Publisher: Wiley
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Edition: 1
Pages: 368
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.2
ISBN: 0471240931
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.57
EAN: 9780471240938
ASIN: 0471240931
Publication Date: August 16, 1999
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Praise for Fourth Generation R&D "A sweeping and insightful analysis of an architecture for innovation in the knowledge economy. Technologists, strategists, and organizational architects will all find this book worth reading, as will students of the modern organization." —John Seely Brown Chief Scientist, Xerox Corporation "The new realities of competition beg a new approach to innovation and R&D; Fourth Generation R&D answers that challenge. With lucid arguments and detailed case studies, Fourth Generation R&D sketches a powerful new paradigm for planning and managing innovation. Every manager concerned with innovation and its role as a strategic resource—that's to say, every manager—will profit from this new understanding." Lawrence Wilkinson President, Global Business Network "Fourth Generation R&D is a tour de force. Its sweep, depth, and use of graphics are all truly remarkable (not to mention its command of the literature on innovation). The distinctions it draws between continuous and discontinuous innovation—and between tacit and explicit knowledge—are fundamental." —John Yochelson President, The Council on Competitiveness
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 Sustainable Innovation! December 6, 2000
Mark W. McElroy (Windsor, VT USA)
21 out of 24 found this review helpful
Authors Miller and Morris have nailed the impending transformation of R&D from its historical, product-centric past to its emerging knowledge-centric future. In addition, their focus on 'discontinuous' and 'fusion' innovation promises to lead the way for industry, in general, whose R&D functions typically produce less than one new product innovation per decade and whose new products, when they are produced, tend to fail in under four years. The authors' explicit embrace of knowledge management is also welcome, as the value of most companies now tends to rest more on the weight of their intellectual assets than on so-called 'hard' assets. Finally, this book's focus on distributed, enterprise-wide innovation signals the tearing down of R&D's overly centralized and compartmentalized profile in most firms, and offers strong support for the view that innovation should be structured as a distributed, whole-firm social process, not an administrative one. I highly recommend this book to readers interested in R&D, innovation, knowledge management, intellectual capital, organizational learning, and sustainable innovation.
Read this book: 4th Generation R&D December 6, 1999
John Swegle (San Ramon, California)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Anyone who's ever fought the battle of bringing a new concept to market or who's managed in today's competitive R&D environment should read this thought-provoking book. It points the way beyond incremental improvement of existing product lines toward quantum leaps in user capability with new dominant designs.
Innovation algorithm December 25, 1999
Larry Keeley (Chicago, Illinois)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Most business leaders today understand that innovation is survival. This book gets beyond the usual trivial pablum about *being more creative* to show the kinds of mechanisms and methods that give R&D traction. If you want to stop wasting your R&D dollars and get better ROI, this book offers clear, actionable, and reliable insights.
Ten Year later: Still Exceptional and Now a Classic! December 25, 2009
T. D. Bjornsson (St. Davids, PA United States)
I got this book when it first came out in 1999, and then I thought it was both insightful and practical for exactly what the subtitle says: "Managing Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation". Now ten years later, and after having read lots of books on innovation, and witnessed the evolution of new terms like design thinking, etc, I still find this book to be an exceptional and stimulating source of new ways of thinking about innovation, and an inspiration.
Provocative Analysis of Innovation April 5, 2000
Gary Waymire (Palo Alto, California)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Fourth Generation R&D makes explicit many of the concepts and processes of innovation that often seem mysterious and complex. The author's framework for innovation applies to organizations competing in accelerated and dynamic markets.
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