Inclusive-interactive approach for R&D management-a new scheme for the global enterprise

Abstract

The authors describe the new R&D management scheme needed for the high-technology enterprise in the global environment. They propose two concepts as the key parameters for assessing and categorizing various R&D management systems, through actual experience in the management of global-scale research, as well as various international partnership programs. These are inclusive-interactiveness (IIA) and visibility (VIS). The IIA concept is important for including the capability of high-quality human factors which are inevitable in many complex managerial systems. The VIS concept is essential for the management systems to be acceptable in the global environment, because they must be transported to geographically and culturally different R&D situations. The authors also propose that, by using these two concepts, there are two ways for improving the conventional-style R&D management systems/tools to make them suitable for the future global environment.<>