Our own research

PROject Science is a unique team of consultant-researchers. Most of our practices are developed through rigorous scientific research on innovation processes and organizations. We continuously do research to create innovative ways to innovate, which better fit the evolving competitive scenario.
We conduct world-wide explorations to seek for the most advanced processes applied by successful pioneering firms and assess their impact on competitive performance. Then we integrate insights that come from scientific analysis into methods that can be combined and customized  to suit the challenges, capabilities and culture of our clients. Our novel methods, before being applied to firms, are always tested, proven in real settings, and certified through publication in top-ranked scientific journals

 

 

Our research collaborations

In order to provide our clients with the broadest range of methods, processes and insights we complement our core competence developed through our own research with state of the art research conducted at top business schools and universities worldwide. We do not simply screen publications of past studies, but directly cooperate in research projects with thought leaders. This allows our team to have access to the most recent insights and to deeply assimilate and test novel methods. The consultant-researchers of our team  have cooperated and published jointly with professors at the following schools:

Harvard Business School

Sloan School of Management of the MIT

Insead

London Business School

Copenhagen Business School

Leuven University

 

 

A selected sample of our publications

Roberto Verganti, Design Driven Innovation – Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating what Things Mean.
Boston, MA: Harvard Business Press, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Gary P. Pisano and Roberto Verganti, “Which Kind of Collaboration is Right for You? The new leaders in innovation will be those who figure out the best way to leverage a network of outsiders”, Harvard Business Review, December 2008

 

 

 

Claudio Dell’Era and Roberto Verganti, “Strategies of innovation and imitation of product languages”, Journal of Product Innovation Management, 24, 2007

 

 

 

Roberto Verganti, “Innovating Through Design”, Harvard Business Review, December, 2006

 

 

 

 

Roberto Verganti, and Tommaso Buganza, “Design Inertia: Designing for life-cycle flexibility in Internet-based services” Journal of Product Innovation Management. May 2005

 

 

 

Alan MacCormack, Roberto Verganti, and Marco Iansiti, "Developing Products on "Internet Time": The Anatomy of a Flexible Development Process", Management Science, January 2001

 

 

 

Francois Jegou, Roberto Verganti, Alessio Marchesi, Giuliano Simonelli, Claudio Dell’Era, Design Driven Toolbox – A Handbook to support companies in Radical Product Innovation

 

 

 

 

 

 

For further information on our past and forthcoming publications please contact info@pro-jectscience.com