By Alexander Brem
IEEE TEMS offers a diverse range of publications, and we’re excited to introduce “EMR Editor’s Picks” to provide you with practice-oriented, evidence-based insights from our journal of practice, EMR. These selected articles offer valuable international perspectives, and as a TEMS member, you have full access to them through IEEE Xplore.
Our first featured article introduces “Backward Research,” a user-friendly tool for analyzing organizations’ innovation processes. “Backward Research” is the best practice approach from industry: it offers a tool for getting insights into corporate innovation processes. Find out more on how organizations can use this approach to analyze their learning capabilities and to identify areas of improvement. Please click here to access the article.
We’re also pleased to highlight a contribution from Robert Cooper, the renowned creator of the Stage-Gate-Process. In this article, he introduces the 5th Generation Stage-Gate Idea-to-Launch Process, designed to address project challenges. If your organization faces new-product challenges—development projects taking too long, new products not hitting sales targets, or an overloaded development pipeline—then it is time to move to a fifth-generation system. Please click here to access the article.
Stay tuned for more Editor’s Picks in the future, and thank you for being a part of the IEEE TEMS community.
About the Author
Alexander Brem is an Endowed Chaired Professor and Institute Head with the University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany. In addition, he is an Honorary Professor with the University of SouthernDenmark, Sønderborg, Denmark. His research interests include technological innovation and entrepreneurship. He is IEEE Senior Member and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Engineering Management Review (EMR). He can be reached at the University of Stuttgart at https://www.eni.uni-stuttgart.de/en/institute/team/Brem-00002/.
