In today’s hypercompetitive world, a forward-thinking CEO secures his or her company’s future by developing and sustaining superior innovation and R&D management capabilities. These capabilities enable organizations to sense and seize new growth opportunities, to sustain and reinvent the sources of competitive advantage, and to be faster and more agile than the competition.

A.T. Kearney is uniquely qualified to help clients significantly and dramatically improve their innovation and R&D management capabilities. We invite you to learn about A.T. Kearney's unique points of view, qualifications, and studies about innovation and R&D management.

Innovation and R&D management value levers
Fundamentally, there are five levers for generating significant value through better innovation management. A.T. Kearney has capabilities and service offerings addressing these five value levers.
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Best Innovator Competition
The most innovative companies—those most skilled in innovation management—are recognized and publicized annually as part of A.T. Kearney’s Best Innovator Competition.
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Best Innovator Club
The Best Innovator Club comprises senior executives from a variety of industries and organizations, who lead innovation management, technology management, and research & development—all winners of a Best Innovator Competition—and participants in an annual forum for sharing best practices in innovation management.
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Innovation management self-assessment tool
Assess your company’s innovation management capability. Our self-assessment tool is structured according to the A.T. Kearney House of Innovation, and is based on the same questionnaire used in our Best Innovator competition.
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IMP³rove Assessment recognized as the best innovation tool
Developed as part of the IMP³rove project for the European Commission, the tool helps businesses grow through online benchmarking combined with personal consulting.
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Strategic R&D outsourcing in the pharmaceuticals and biotech industry
As pharmaceuticals and biotechs strive to improve operational excellence and reduce costs, R&D organizations must respond to new expectations, but they also have an opportunity to undertake holistic R&D transformation, including but not limited to the strategic review of R&D outsourcing—not just to save money but to fuel growth through innovation.
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