Manage R&D and foster innovation
Tools that help you manage R&D and foster innovation.
15 tools
- Drucker's Seven Sources of Innovation — Seven concrete places to hunt for R&D opportunities, not a random brainstorm
- Design Thinking — Runs R&D from real user behaviour through prototype and test
- Lean Startup Methodology — Tests the riskiest R&D assumption cheaply before full investment
- Minimum Viable Products (MVP) — Builds the smallest testable version to learn before committing budget
- New Product Development Model — Stages R&D from strategy to launch, killing weak ideas early
- Idea Screening Matrix — Scores competing R&D ideas on shared criteria before funding
- Innovation Radar — Shows which innovation levers R&D is actually pulling
- Innovation Pyramid — Checks the R&D pipeline isn't all incremental or all moonshot
- Core Competence Analysis — Focuses R&D on the few capabilities that genuinely set you apart
- Open Market Innovation — Pulls R&D input from customers and outside partners, not just the lab
- Rapid Prototyping Tools — Gets real feedback on an R&D idea fast, before money is spent
- Technology Roadmap — Sequences R&D and tech initiatives by business priority
- Dynamic Capabilities Assessment — Audits how well the organisation senses and seizes new innovation
- McKinsey's Three Horizons of Growth — Balances R&D spend across today's core and tomorrow's bets
- Cross-Industry Innovation — Solves R&D problems by adapting a mechanism proven elsewhere