Encouraging Autonomy and Empowering R&D Teams

Description

IRI PILOT research project update
This project postulates that empowered R&D teams who are able to exercise a high degree of autonomy are:

More engaged/committed to the organization and their projects; and

Are able to produce ‘better’ projects faster and more efficiently.

The project team is looking to establish a set of best practices that companies can take to empower their R&D teams and encourage autonomy in decision-making. In this session, they will provide an update on their findings based on their roundtable discussions with members, literature review, and case studies from two organizations.

Contributors

Jen Bailey

Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations Management, Babson College
PJ Guinan

Associate Professor of Information Systems, Technology, Operations & Information Management Division, Babson College
Gina O’Connor

Professor of Innovation Management, Babson College
Derek Shuttleworth

Retired, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

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Contributors

Jen Bailey

PJ Guinan

Gina O’Connor

Derek Shuttleworth