Robert Phaal

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Directing the technology intelligence activity: An ‘information needs’ template for initiating the search

Clive Kerr, Robert Phaal

Technological Forecasting and Social Change > 2018 > 134 > C > 265-276

In technology-intensive sectors, strategic planning requires relevant and timely information about new/emerging technologies – this is a critical input. Therefore, technology intelligence activities should be directed to capture and deliver pertinent technological information. However, there is a distinct lack of tools for helping organizations to determine what constitutes useful/appropriate information...

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How entrepreneurs manage collective uncertainties in innovation ecosystems

Leonardo Augusto de Vasconcelos Gomes, Mario Sergio Salerno, Robert Phaal, David R. Probert

Technological Forecasting and Social Change > 2018 > 128 > C > 164-185

Radically innovative products and services are frequently developed and commercialized by new ventures. In this context, entrepreneurs may face the challenge of coordinating a complex network of actors in the presence of individual and collective uncertainties. Previous literature on entrepreneurship has focused on how entrepreneurs manage individual uncertainties (those that affect a single firm)...

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Roadmapping as a Platform for Developing Management Toolkits: A Collaborative Design Approach with the LEGO Group

Clive Kerr, Robert Phaal, Kasper Thams

2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) > 1 - 11

2017 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)

Roadmapping holds a unique position in industrially-relevant management tools: it can act as an integrative central hub to which other tools easily connect. Unfortunately, this type of application is generally not considered. Therefore, we are championing roadmapping as a platform for developing management toolkits. This positions roadmapping as a foundational building block when integrating a set...

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Technology management as a profession and the challenges ahead

Dilek Cetindamar, Robert Phaal, David R. Probert

Journal of Engineering and Technology Management > 2016 > 41 > C > 1-13

This paper is aimed at current and future managers in the field of technology management (TM), and those who train and educate them. After briefly describing TM as a management discipline, the potential challenges likely to rise in the field are introduced according to three processes given in the TM framework: innovation, operation and strategy. Then, a set of propositions are developed regarding...

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Inserting Innovations In-Service

Clive Kerr, Robert Phaal, David Probert

Studies in Computational Intelligence > Innovations in Defence Support Systems – 1 > 17-53

Military platforms have exceptionally long lifecycles and given the state of defense budgets there is a significant trend in sustaining the operational capability of legacy platforms for much greater periods than originally designed. In the context of through-life management, one of the key questions is how to manage the flow of technology for platform modernization during the in-service phase of...

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Mapping Platform Transformations

Clive I. V. Kerr, Robert Phaal, David R. Probert

Decision Engineering > Complex Engineering Service Systems > Complex Product Integration > 375-393

Technology insertion provides the means to proactively sustain and enhance the functionality and associated performance levels of legacy product platforms. It aims to deliver in-service technological innovations in response to the need for new capabilities that address emerging threats, obsolescence concerns and affordability issues. Platform modernisation via technology insertion is an interaction...

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Translating technology management research into practice: System Design Characterization as an example

Man Hang Yip, Imoh M. Ilevbare, Robert Phaal, David R. Probert

02016 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering... > 2016 > 2876 - 2886

2016 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)

The importance of translating research into practice is well established. Research has shown that management consultancies and other intermediaries provide a key mechanism to disseminate academic knowledge to industry. This paper presents a process for, and lessons learned from, translating a research output into a business improvement tool.

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Characterising product-service systems in the healthcare industry

Man Hang Yip, Robert Phaal, David R. Probert

Technology in Society > 2015 > 43 > Complete > 129-143

Since the 1970s, marketing and innovation management communities have been investigating how to incorporate customer-desired functions into new product and service designs. These wide-ranging enquiries have shed light on the impact of lead-user engagement in new product development, demonstrated ways to examine service production and delivery, such as the use of ‘line of visibility’ in service blueprints...

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Improving long-term strategic planning: An analysis of STEEPLE factors identified in environmental scanning brainstorms

Elliott More, David Probert, Robert Phaal

2015 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET) > 381 - 394

2015 Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET)

Given an understanding of factors that drive change in a firm's external environment is an important element of strategy development, some form of environmental scan to identify factors tends to be included. This paper presents findings from an analysis of environmental scans conducted by 76 manufacturing firms. Firm's senior decision makers brainstormed factors using the standard STEEPLE framework...

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Decision making at the front end of innovation: the hidden influence of knowledge and decision criteria

Maicon Gouvêa Oliveira, Henrique Rozenfeld, Robert Phaal, David Probert

R&D Management > 45 > 2 > 161 - 180

Decision making at the front end of innovation is critical for the success of companies. This paper presents a method, called decision making based on knowledge (DeBK), which was created to analyze the decision‐making process at the front end. The method evaluates the knowledge of project information and the importance of decision criteria, compiling a measure that indicates whether decisions are...

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Addressing Resource Over-exploitation Via Cooperative Institutions: Examining How Technology Roadmapping Could Contribute

Elliott More, Z. Ergun Gungor, Robert Phaal, David Probert

Procedia CIRP > 2015 > 26 > Complete > 173-178

In a resource constrained world, valuable resources will increasingly need to be managed as part of the global commons, however the current global market has been shown to be ill-equipped to protect common resources from over-exploitation. However leading thinkers on this subject have previously identified collaboration as a fundamental successful factor in the sustainable management of small scale...

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Characterizing product-service systems in the healthcare industry

Man Hang Yip, Robert Phaal, David R. Probert

Proceedings of PICMET '14 Conference: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology; Infrastructure and Service Integration > 3450 - 3464

PICMET '14 Conference: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology; Infrastructure and Service Integration

Since the 1970s, marketing and innovation management communities have been investigating how to incorporate customer-desired functions into new product and service designs. These wide-ranging enquiries have shed light on the impact of lead-user engagement in new product development, demonstrated ways to examine service production and delivery, such as the use of `line of visibility' in service blueprints...

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Scoring methods for prioritizing and selecting innovation projects

Rick Mitchell, Robert Phaal, Nicky Athanassopoulou

Proceedings of PICMET '14 Conference: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology; Infrastructure and Service Integration > 907 - 920

PICMET '14 Conference: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology; Infrastructure and Service Integration

An approach for designing multi-factor scoring systems for evaluating and selecting early stage innovation projects is presented. A project is a piece of work of finite duration with finite resources, aimed at a defined outcome. Innovation projects have the extra complication that all of these aspects will be somewhat uncertain and knowledge of them is liable to change as the project proceeds. Clearly...

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Architecting strategy: Visual form and function of roadmaps

Robert Phaal, Satoshi Yoshida

Proceedings of PICMET '14 Conference: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology; Infrastructure and Service Integration > 2960 - 2971

PICMET '14 Conference: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology; Infrastructure and Service Integration

Roadmapping is an established management method that supports strategy at innovation, business and sector levels. Roadmaps help to align investments in technology, infrastructure, capabilities and other resources with commercial, organizational and societal goals. The structured visual representation of strategy provided by roadmaps supports dialogue and communication across organizational boundaries...

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Light-weighting innovation strategy: A roadmap-portfolio toolkit

Clare Farrukh, Clive Kerr, Robert Phaal, Nikoletta Athanassopoulou, more

Proceedings of PICMET '14 Conference: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology; Infrastructure and Service Integration > 97 - 101

PICMET '14 Conference: Portland International Center for Management of Engineering and Technology; Infrastructure and Service Integration

The field of strategic technology management contains a number of practical tools to help align technology investment with business objectives and so support successful innovation. However the application of such tools is often seen by organizations as being difficult to configure, combine and also resource consuming to deploy. Thus, the research question is: can a light-weighted intuitive approach...

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Towards risk-aware roadmapping: Influencing factors and practical measures

Imoh M. Ilevbare, David Probert, Robert Phaal

Technovation > 2014 > 34 > 8 > 399-409

In spite of the significance of uncertainty and risk in strategy, there is still a general lack of attention to their explicit consideration in strategic planning processes. This lack of attention is also obvious in roadmapping in its application to strategic and innovation planning. This paper introduces and explores the concept of risk-aware roadmapping, which explicitly manages uncertainty and...

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Key principles for developing industrially relevant strategic technology management toolkits

Clive Kerr, Clare Farrukh, Robert Phaal, David Probert

Technological Forecasting & Social Change > 2013 > 80 > 6 > 1050-1070

When considering the potential uptake and utilization of technology management tools by industry, it must be recognized that companies face the difficult challenges of selecting, adopting and integrating individual tools into a toolkit that must be implemented within their current organizational processes and systems. This situation is compounded by the lack of sound advice on integrating well-founded...

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Exploring industry dynamics and interactions

Michèle Routley, Robert Phaal, David Probert

Technological Forecasting & Social Change > 2013 > 80 > 6 > 1147-1161

Within strategic technology management and innovation, often stakeholders extrapolate past industry dynamics, trends and patterns into the future. One frequently used concept is that of ‘lifecycles’ — an analogy of a sequence of stages encountered by living organisms. Lifecycle terms – such as technology, product, industry – are frequently used interchangeably and without clear definition. Within...

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A review of TRIZ, and its benefits and challenges in practice

Imoh M. Ilevbare, David Probert, Robert Phaal

Technovation > 2013 > 33 > 2-3 > 30-37

TRIZ (the theory of inventive problem solving) has been promoted by several enthusiasts as a systematic methodology or toolkit that provides a logical approach to developing creativity for innovation and inventive problem solving.The methodology, which emerged from Russia in the 1960s, has spread to over 35 countries across the world. It is now being taught in several universities and it has been...

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An integrated service-device-technology roadmap for smart city development

Jung Hoon Lee, Robert Phaal, Sang-Ho Lee

Technological Forecasting & Social Change > 2013 > 80 > 2 > 286-306

Firms and other organizations use Technology Roadmapping (TRM) extensively as a framework for supporting research and development of future technologies and products that could sustain a competitive advantage. While the importance of technology strategy has received more attention in recent years, few research studies have examined how roadmapping processes are used to explore the potential convergence...

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Directing the technology intelligence activity: An ‘information needs’ template for initiating the search

How entrepreneurs manage collective uncertainties in innovation ecosystems

Roadmapping as a Platform for Developing Management Toolkits: A Collaborative Design Approach with the LEGO Group

Technology management as a profession and the challenges ahead

Inserting Innovations In-Service

Mapping Platform Transformations

Translating technology management research into practice: System Design Characterization as an example

Characterising product-service systems in the healthcare industry

Improving long-term strategic planning: An analysis of STEEPLE factors identified in environmental scanning brainstorms

Decision making at the front end of innovation: the hidden influence of knowledge and decision criteria

Addressing Resource Over-exploitation Via Cooperative Institutions: Examining How Technology Roadmapping Could Contribute

Characterizing product-service systems in the healthcare industry

Scoring methods for prioritizing and selecting innovation projects

Architecting strategy: Visual form and function of roadmaps

Light-weighting innovation strategy: A roadmap-portfolio toolkit

Towards risk-aware roadmapping: Influencing factors and practical measures

Key principles for developing industrially relevant strategic technology management toolkits

Exploring industry dynamics and interactions

A review of TRIZ, and its benefits and challenges in practice

An integrated service-device-technology roadmap for smart city development

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