I really enjoy managing the tensions in a good Research & Development organization:

• How big the R (exciting new tech), how big the D (exciting new markets)
• Centralized (big think pool) or decentralized (close to the customer)
• Formal pipeline (control-oriented) or informal prototyping (learning-oriented)
• Engineers (technology) working with Product Developers / Financial Analysts (profit)
• Big Bangs (disruptive) or many, many Beestings (incremental)
• Open Innovation (broad) and Intellectual Property (defendable)

My achievements in this space include (those that I can speak about publicly):

• Restructuring of IHS into Connected Home
• Presentations about innovation management to Invensys and Motorola
• A few of my articles on innovation management