One of the most important decisions in research and development is defining the scope of the project. Some problems involve making a simple refinement. Others require inventing a whole new technology. Managers thus assign projects to different “buckets” – allowing them to tailor their project management approaches.

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This article draws its inspiration from the paper Managing R&D Project Shifts in High-Tech Organizations: A Multi-Method Study, written by Aravind Chandrasekaran, Kevin Linderman, Fabian J. Sting and Mary J. Benner. It is forthcoming in the journal Production and Operations Management.

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Sting, F. (2016). Shift happens: how to manage changing projects. RSM Discovery - Management Knowledge, 25(1), 17–19. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1765/93040