Management Science and Innovation
New Product Development
Contract Design for R&D Licensing
How should innovators design licensing contracts, when there is incomplete information on the partner’s valuation of the innovation, and limited control over the partner’s development efforts? (published in Operations Research)
R&D Project Valuation and Negotiations
How can we value early-stage R&D projects and support licensing negotiations? (published in Interfaces; recipient of INFORMS Case Competition Award)
Managing Technology Risks in R&D Project Management
What are the advantages and disadvantages of parallelizing
R&D activities and simultaneously pursuing alternative technologies, when
investments have to be made at risk? (published in IIE Transactions, recipient of the...more
Impact of Project Portfolio Management on Technology Projects
What is the impact of project portfolio management processes
on the performance of information technology projects? (published in the International Journal of Project Management)
An Integrated Decision-Making Approach for improving European Air Traffic Management
A model supporting the European Commission’s Single European
Sky initiative, evaluating alternative air traffic management improvement
programmes (published in...more.
Real Options Valuation using Decision Analysis
A novel approach for valuing real options in projects (published in the European Journal of Operational Research).
Optimal Investment under Operational Flexibility, Risk Aversion and Uncertainty
When should we invest in, expand, shrink or abandon risky projects depending on market conditions? (published in the European Journal of Operational Research)
The Value of Flexibilty in New Product Development: The Impact of Competiion
How does the intensity of competition influence the value of flexibility in new product development projects, and when should new products be launched, or projects abandoned?
Inspiring Open Innovation
The design
and delivery of activities that promote the role that Open Innovation can play
in addressing key societal and economic challenges through collective innovate at
a pan-European level (EU INTEREG Project).
Ecology and music software
In preparation, a long view of the music software history and pre-history, going back to machine orchestras and tracing them through to today, taking in the role of standards, ecologies based on competing standards and the knock on effect of ...More.
Developing agile software architecture using real option analysis and value engineering
How should you develop software architecture to enable agility?
This will invariably take account of the strategy of the organisation, and what
they consider is of value. (SEI SEPG Conference Dublin 2011)
Improvement of agile development processes
Software development methods often focus on team activities
and don’t always incorporate clear and appropriate guidelines for project
management and scaling the project. (Journal of Object Oriented Programming)
Developing metrics for agile projects compatible with CMMI
What measurements are needed to improve agile project management? Categorised as, ‘cutting edge’ by the SEI (Software
Engineering Institute). SEPG, Amsterdam 2006
Achieving earlier and more accurate estimates for agile CMMI projects
Agile development practices are increasingly being applied
to large scale projects. How can we predict and forecast how long and how much
a complex agile development will cost? (SEI SEPG 2008)
Coordination problems in Complex Product Development
What is the role of product architecture and
organizational communication in complex product development efforts? What is
the impact of misalignment between complex product architecture and
organizational structure on final product quality?...more
Globally Distributed Product Design and Performance
How to design a complex product
globally? How to manage complex product
architecture? What is the most efficient way of distributing complex subsystems
across global design centres? How to achieve both NPD efficiency and high
quality at the same time in...more
New Technology and Service Development
What is the effect of development of new
technologies and services on current products in the telecommunications
industry? How does the relationship between technology/service developers and
client firms affect product and...more
The Effect of Customer Feedback and Organizational Learning on Product Innovation
What is the role of customer feedback and organizational learning
in the design of new generation of products?
Outsourcing Decisions in Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Firms
What are the key tradeoffs in outsourcing and
contract-manufacturing decisions in pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms?
Which operational and organisational capabilities ...More
The IT Revolution and Globalization
The adoption of computers and related innovations (e.g. the
invention of the internet) as well as the (consequent) process of globalization
is causing organizational change within...More
The New Economics of Amazon
Due to the recent introduction of network technologies,
there now is a growing importance of organizations operating online trading
platforms such as Amazon, eBay or Monster.com. This project models and
empirically tests the optimal behaviour of these ...More
Economic History of Innovations
Current times are often perceived as times of rapid
technological progress, also called the IT Revolution or the arrival of the New
Economy. This projects compares the economic impact of the recent IT Revolution
with other periods of ...More
Creativity in Cross-Functional and Interdisciplinary Teams
How do differences in the underlying perspectives and
assumptions of group members shape the nature and ultimate creativity of small
groups? How does the creative process differ in such diverse teams from more
homogeneous teams?
Intellectual Game Play in Knowledge Work
What is the relationship between play and creativity? How can play support or hinder creativity in organizations? What are the organizational structures and processes that support intellectual play at work? This research explores the value of play to knowledge work.
Mutually Reinforcing Dynamics of Idea Generation and Idea Evaluation in Groups
This research challenges the conventional wisdom that the
brainstorming approach of separating idea generation and idea evaluation are
optimal for promoting creativity in groups .....more.
Manufacturing decisions and the commercialization of disruptive technologies
Manufacturing
expertise is often in short supply in novel industries. What are the implications
for business development? (Funded through TSB Regenerative Medicine
program).
Marketing disruptive technologies
What are
the challenges managers face in marketing disruptive technologies and how do
they alter the behavior of critical stakeholders? (with Research Associate Dr
Enrico Forti and funded through
Regenerative Medicine program).
Patent value
What value can be created from patents and where does it
reside? (published in International
Journal of Intellectual Property Management, Journal of Intellectual Capital, International Journal
of Intellectual Property Management and...more
Successful Market entry
Best being the first to market? Think twice (published in International
Journal of Collaborative Enterprise and International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological
Innovation).
Managing Trade-Offs Within and Across Decision Domains: Continuity, Change and New Product Success
Little is known about the mix of decisions through which innovators manage trade-offs between continuity and change. We leverage behavioral tracking data regarding the...more.
From Hero to Zero? Prolonging the Shelf-life of Fads
Individual brands, products or even whole categories that were once appealing for a particular segment, might become irrelevant as society evolves and tastes change. We leverage behavioral tracking data regarding the...more.
Institutional Logic of Open Source Projects
Why and how do companies compete with or participate in
voluntary open source software projects?
Project Leader: Soong Moon Kang
From Blue Sky Research to Problem Solving: a Philosophy of Science Theory of New Knowledge Production
What are the different kinds of knowledge that are produced, the indicators of progress, the characteristic methods, and the exemplar organizations? (Published in Academy of Management Review in 2011)
Necessity of Others – Mother of Invention
It has long been considered as fact that creativity is most evident when people are self-motivated (intrinsically) in their work. Looking at data from two organizations and supported by a laboratory study, we found that intrinsic motivation was much more effective when linked with a focus on others...more
Idea Flows – Mapping Innovation Identification
Do the CEO and the hourly employee judge creativity the same way? If not, corporate innovation programs asking employees to be creative may be doomed to failure. This research attempts to map how employees evaluate potentially creative new ideas within existing companies....more
Identifying Creativity at a Distance Contract Design for R&D Licensing
Creativity is a balance of novelty and usefulness. Yet how we evaluate ideas changes depending on how near or far we feel from the particular context. When people are close to a problem both novelty and usefulness of the solution are relevant....more
Maximizing Employee Creativity
How can we encourage employees to maximize their effort and creativity in working on problems? Perspective-taking is one way to encourage employees to focus on end users in solving problems...more
