This edition includes the following articles:
Creating the culture of a start-up within a corporate at DePuy
Creating a 'virtual business unit' with a distinctive culture, changing attitudes to risk and access to the right technology partners helped DePuy achieve innovation in the conservative area of orthopaedics, explains Alan Ashby, VP of DePuy's R&D and Operations.
FutureWorlds: using uncertainty to drive innovation
Changing markets, increased supplier sophistication and ever-present competitive pressures mean that innovation has become key to delivering sustained profitable growth. Most companies recognize this, but the success rate of innovation programmes remains questionable. PA has developed FutureWorlds to help organizations build a coherent view of the future, to drive innovation and strategic decision-making.
Enhancement packaging: making the whole greater than the sum of the parts
Packaging has always been the poor relation to the product. However by applying market and technology insights to the pack, companies can provide improved user benefits - even totally new product types can be created, leading to market dominance.
'Engineering of people' to create true innovation at IMI Vision
Changing behaviors and fulfilling people potential are key factors in successful high-risk innovation, says Martin Johnson, head of IMI Vision. IMI Vision's pivotal role as a 'business within the business' is to identify high-risk high-value innovation opportunities and convert them into realistic, manageable business opportunities for the five core divisions of the IMI Group.
Past, present and future: innovation at PA's international technology centers
Dr Alec MacAndrew, PA's Group Head of Technology, discusses how PA's role as a technology partner has evolved, and predicts how it will look in future: "The most important characteristic of our approach is our creation of an environment in which both innovation and quality can flourish. It is relatively easy either to create an off-the-wall creative culture or to achieve high quality delivery - on time. Putting the two together is more difficult, but that is what breakout innovation requires."
