R D management

The role of the Technology Manager is far broader (than that of the R D manager who develops technologies primarily from internal sources) he or she must see to it that the corporation has available and uses the technologies it needs from whatever source they may be procured... The difference is both subtle and far... 

R D management of PBAs development is an important and complex task as the time, money, and tech-... 

Cite highlights from previous literature on use of quantitative methods already widely used by R D management... 

Explain the basis of decision analysis in R D management applications, including the use of multiple criteria... 

As R D spending increases to a record share of revenue, many R D management teams have started to appraise their own performance in decision making. None of the following simple recipes seems like the easy answers that they appeared to be to many companies (and consultancies) over the past 15 years ... 

In summary, the current emphasis in R D management circles seems to be upon reducing risk, improving pipeline quality, and improving team accountability and communications between functional specialties and units. 

In interviews of R D management during 2004, comments by research managers on portfolio management included ... 

It is in the intermediate areas of Figure 11.1 that R D managements most lack effective tools and support for decision making ... 

R D management tends to be dominated by a project management paradigm, and most organizations develop systems based upon standard project management software, for example, Microsoft Project . This is very useful for project control, but of much less help in decision support. John Gittins claimed in 1997 [10] that very few pharmaceutical companies practice use of decision analysis in planning their work. Decisions tend to be made only for a baseline plan, and typically... 

Supporting excerpts from R D management interviews were ... 

Managing risk and uncertainty was increasingly seen as a priority in recent conferences, reflected in these comments from R D management interviews ... 

There are two key limitations of the use of ROC methods and decision analytic valuations in such applications, each of which gives rise to an opportunity for improving the reach of R D management simulations ... 

How can pharma R D managers ensure that the future for process and performance improvement is not just like the past, where the long-term trend appears to be decreased, not increased, economic effectiveness ... 

This research was supported by Energy R D Management Center for the Ministry of Industry, Resources and Energy, Korea and by KOSEF. 

The findings of these studies are in accordance with an earlier study performed by the British economists Taylor and Silberston. Based on a survey of R D managers in the United Kingdom, they estimated that pharmaceutical R D expenditures would be reduced by 64% in the absence of patent protections. By contrast, the corresponding reduction was only 8% across all industries. Similar findings were reported by Edwin Mansfield, in a survey of the research directors of 100 U.S. corporations. ... 

Grabowski, Henry, and John M. Vernon. 1990. A New Look at the Return and Risks to Pharmaceutical R D. Management Science 36 804-821. 

A. Roussel, K. N. Saad, and T. J. Erikson, Third-Generation R D Managing the Eink to Corporate Strategy, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass., 1991, p. 160. 

The author thanks Luwa, Ltd., for permission to publish this paper, which is based on his work while he was R D manager of Luwas process equipment division. 

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