2024 programme and projects

Overview

2024 Programme

About STIM Membership

Member Area

Overview

2024 Programme

About STIM Membership

Member area

STIM is an annual rolling programme, refreshed each year in terms of focus and membership. The programme is organised around a schedule of strategic technology and innovation management projects, jointly developed at the launch meeting, providing a platform to support exchange of experience by participating firms.

The core programme of events is enhanced with additional knowledge transfer/exchange events including masterclasses, webinars and exploratory workshops to provide member companies with relevant knowledge in selected STIM topics and challenges.

PROJECT THEMES AND TOPICS

Strategy and Roadmapping
  1. Visualising Portfolios – Dr Clive Kerr
  2. Engineering Change with Roadmapping (A conceptual framework and practical
    process for U-I collaborative innovation) – Anna Greenaway
  3. Navigating Innovation Uncertainties – Dr Yuta Hirose
  4. Interdependence Analysis in Project Roadmapping – Quirin Gartner & Michael Zäh
  5. Visions of the Future and the Process of Envisioning: Application in Strategic
    Roadmapping – Killian Manyuchi
  6. Exploring Digital Technologies to Augment Tools for Strategic Technology and Innovation
    Management – Prof Dr Maicon Oliveira
  7. A Toolkit for Integrating Sustainability into Strategic Portfolio Management – Giácomo Parolin
Managing Technology, Innovation and Collaboration
  1. Stakeholder Management in New System Development – Dr Man Hang Yip
  2. When is it worth Implementing Agile? – Dr Valerie Lynch
  3. Managing Business Ecosystem for Sustainability – Cadence Hsien
  4. Transferring Knowledge from Crisis Situations to Ongoing Innovation Practice – Clare Farrukh and Prof Tim Minshall
  5. Optimising Sustainability Decision-making – Dr Diana Khripko
  6. Coach Facilitated Outcomes in Differing Organisational Contexts – Ady Dike
  7. Corporate Venture Building: Pathways to Venture Creation and Growth – Vivian Marcelino
  8. Capturing Value from Innovation Communities – Dr Arsalan Ghani
Managing and Deploying Digitalisation
  1. ESG in Digital Transformation Strategy: a Roadmapping Approach – Dr Arsalan Ghani
  2. Me, myself & (A)I: Augmenting gathering & creating knowledge in an age of intelligent
    machines – Constanze Leeb and Dr Letizia Mortara
  3. Digital Transformation Effects on Sustainability – Clare Farrukh, Dr Nicky Athanassopoulou, Dr Daniel
    Schallmo and Dr Anastasios Sepetis
  4. Systematic Configurability Enhancement in Industry 4.0 Platforms – Dr Najeeb Arghistani
  5. C5. Fabric Defects Detection Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network with Safe Human
    Robot Collaboration – Syed Ali Hassan
Interest Groups

Alongside the projects, STIM Consortium members have identified four subjects that are of common interest. These are:

  • Grand challenges
  • Foresight and horizon scanning

PROGRAMME CALENDAR

14 March 2024: Network meeting; member forum and project workshops (face-to-face)

Member companies and researchers convene to discuss practical business challenges, learn from one another and propose solutions on how they may be addressed. Ongoing consortium research projects to address these challenges are presented and discussed, and members network with the researchers to understand how they may collaborate and apply the results. 

21 March: Knowledge exchange event: Webinar

16 May: Project engagement day (project workshops) (online)

11 July: Network meeting; member forum and project workshops (face-to-face)

18 July: Knowledge exchange event: Webinar

3 October: Project engagement day (project workshops) (online)

20-21 November: Member forum and network meeting (face-to-face), and STIM 2025 launch meeting

27 November: Knowledge exchange event: Webinar

Please note: all dates above are tentative and subject to change.