Database Reference
In-Depth Information
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IH2:
The length of time it takes to deliver ideas decreases when global
knowledge transfer occurs as part of the idea delivery process.
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IH3:
Innovators who participate in global knowledge transfer deliver
ideas more quickly than those who do not.
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IH4:
An idea submission can be analyzed and evaluated for the likelihood
of receiving funding.
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IH5:
Knowledge discovery and growth for a particular topic can be
measured and compared across geographic regions.
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IH6:
Knowledge transfer activity can identify research-specific boundary
spanners in disparate regions.
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IH7:
Strategic corporate themes can be mapped to geographic regions.
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IH8:
Frequent knowledge expansion and transfer events reduce the time
it takes to generate a corporate asset from an idea.
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IH9:
Lineage maps can reveal when knowledge expansion and transfer
did not (or has not) resulted in a corporate asset.
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IH10:
Emerging research topics can be classified and mapped to specific
ideators, innovators, boundary spanners, and assets.
The GINA (IHs) can be grouped into two categories:
• Descriptive analytics of what is currently happening to spark further
creativity, collaboration, and asset generation
• Predictive analytics to advise executive management of where it should be
investing in the future
2.8.2 Phase 2: Data Preparation
The team partnered with its IT department to set up a new analytics sandbox to
store and experiment on the data. During the data exploration exercise, the data
scientists and data engineers began to notice that certain data needed conditioning
and normalization. In addition, the team realized that several missing datasets
were critical to testing some of the analytic hypotheses.
As the team explored the data, it quickly realized that if it did not have data
of sufficient quality or could not get good quality data, it would not be able to
perform the subsequent steps in the lifecycle process. As a result, it was important
to determine what level of data quality and cleanliness was sufficient for the project
