4th generation R&D managing knowledge, technology, and innovation

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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, William L. 1944-
Other Authors: Morris, Langdon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York John Wiley & Sons 1998
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Innovation in Crisis
  • The Challenge of Innovation
  • Clarity and Opportunity
  • A Final Thought
  • 4th Generation RandD
  • Continuous and Discontinuous Innovation
  • From 3rd to 4th Generation RandD
  • The Approaches to Innovation
  • Competitive Architecture: The External Framework
  • The Language of Innovation: Theory and Architecture
  • Architecture and Capability Development
  • Defining Customer Value in a Discontinuous Market
  • Dominant Design
  • Product, Service, and Process Innovation
  • Product, Service, and Distribution Platforms
  • The Innovation Cycle: Architecture, Capability, Platforms, and Products
  • Market Architecture as a Business Process
  • Organizational Capability: The Internal Framework
  • Information, Knowledge, and Capability
  • Learning and Knowledge
  • The Learning Curve
  • The Path to Wisdom
  • Tacit and Explicit Knowledge
  • Communities of Practice
  • The Story behind the Story of Apollo 13
  • The Knowledge Channel and Market Development
  • Market Research for Discontinuous Innovation
  • The Knowledge Channel
  • Market Development
  • Point of Use and the Internet
  • Managing Knowledge and Financial Assets
  • Accounting
  • Finance and Decision Making
  • Investing in the Future at Intel
  • Signal and Noise
  • Organizational Architecture
  • Organization Design and Asset Management
  • Obstacles to Innovation
  • Sustaining and Disruptive Innovations
  • Learning and Unlearning
  • The Hierarchy
  • Specialization
  • The New Organization: Delayering and Relayering.