Research and development controlling

R&D and innovation management at a glance

Strategic importance of innovations for the company.
Promotion of innovations within the company.
Sustaining and disruptive innovations.
 

Structural and personnel challenges
Creativity and controlling - not an irreconcilable contradiction.

Best practices for the organizational challenges of R&D controlling.
Critical success factors for successful R&D controlling.
 

R&D project controlling
Project controlling methods for the R&D area.
The magic triangle: costs, deadlines and performance.
R&D project controlling methods: including milestone trend analysis and earned value analysis.

Project management with stage-gate models.

Controlling of agile projects.
 

Basic operational requirements for R&D controlling
Project cost accounting: the work package as a dimension of cost recording.
R&D as a component of life cycle costing.
Influence of target costing on R&D.
Project-related time recording as a core element of R&D project controlling.
R&D budgeting, forecasting and reporting in an R&D matrix organization.
 

IT support for R&D controlling
Requirements of the various stakeholders for software solutions.
Classes of software solutions: Office products, project modules of ERP systems, project management software, business intelligence.
Integration of individual systems as a particular challenge.
 

R&D performance controlling
Assessment of R&D projects using scoring systems.
Overview of input, output, outcome and process-oriented R&D key figures
Criteria for accompanying R&D controlling: including net present value and internal rate of return.
Risk management in R&D.
 

Strategic R&D controlling
R&D project portfolio - mapping the corporate strategy.
Making qualitative performance measurable: Development of an R&D balanced scorecard.