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A Major Electronics Manufacturer Realigns Its R&D Activities to Respond to Market Demands and Encourage Innovation

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Overview The electronics maker needed to improve its innovation capabilities to achieve its goal of becoming a world-class leader that is capable of creating and leading new markets instead of remaining a fast follower. IBM Research and IBM Global Business Services worked in partnership with the client to transform its R&D division by incorporating certain of IBM's world class research practices, methodologies and experience into the client's research and development operations. The client's teams drew from best practices developed at IBM Research labs to generate new ideas and technology themes. In collaboration with business units, they worked to develop a corporate culture and business processes geared toward nurturing creativity while boosting effective execution.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	HTML
Date Published	January 2008
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Engineering - RandD

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