Live Webinar July 15th, 2014 – 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EDT
Duration: 1 hour webinar Credits: 1 PDU Category A – Free PDU
Sponsored by: PMI INPD CoP (REP #S011)

1. How should firms design collaboration structures in distributed R&D projects that involve multiple vendors?
2. And what are the performance implications of such structures?

In this webinar, Anant will discuss the results from a research study that examines the above questions.

Using data from 147 R&D projects, she will focus our attention on two underlying dimensions of collaboration structures in multi-vendor R&D projects:

• The scale and the scope of collaboration between a client firm and its vendors in an R&D project …
• And examine how these dimensions affect the revenue generated from collaboration.

The study findings highlight the significant performance implications of collaboration structures in multi-vendor R&D projects and call for greater managerial attention toward effectively balancing the scale and the scope of such structures in multi-vendor projects.

Study authors: Anant Mishra (LinkedIn profile)(George Mason University), Aravind Chandrasekaran (LinkedIn profile)(The Ohio State University), and Alan MacCormack (Harvard Business School bio)

Presenter: Anant Mishra PhD is a Professor in the IS & Ops Mgmy Dept at George Mason University.  Anant’s research interests derive from contemporary real world issues in the areas of new product development, project management, open innovation, and offshoring. His research has been published in the many publications including Production and Operations Management and the Journal of Operations Management.

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