Chart Your Course Report

Chart Your Course To Emerging Technology Success

Create A Plan To Improve How Your Firm Turns Emerging Technology Research Into Business Value

August 2nd, 2021
Brian Hopkins, VP, Emerging Tech Portfolio
Brian Hopkins VP, Emerging Tech Portfolio
With contributors:
Pascal Matzke , Sam Higgins , Bobby Cameron , Bernhard Schaffrik , Patrick Carroll , Christian Austin , Emily Stutzman

Summary

Emerging technology research and evaluation leaders must first understand their firms’ overall innovation maturity level, then pace technology research improvements. You cannot get too far ahead or lag. In more mature firms, emerging tech research and innovation are two separate workstreams — with different goals, objectives, and budgets. When planning improvements to your emerging technology research practices, consider organization and relationships, practices, talent and culture gaps, and measurement and learning success and failure. Begin with ad hoc innovation, which is already happening, then expand to improve strategic innovation when you are ready. Stretch to technology-driven innovation only when your firm has high levels of customer obsessed and innovation maturity. This report helps executives turn the promises of emerging tech into business value.

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