R&D leaders constantly face a deluge of promising project ideas competing for limited resources. The overarching challenge is objectively choosing and justifying which projects to pursue, which is ...

This paper presents views based on experiences as team member, project leader and Director of a large O.R. group, followed by observing the performance of several O.R. groups and finally as a user of ...

To encourage such flow, R&D leaders usually have targets for the numbers of projects reaching development milestones. Although not without merit, such target setting can be counterproductive for R&D ...