How organisations make innovation happen; this includes innovation in products as well as processes and practices, and it focuses on what happens on the ground rather than just strategising at an aggregate level. The topic is interdisciplinary and stretches from project management and processes (operations), to strategic portfolios and strategy deployment (strategy), to organisational structures and cultural habits (sociology), and to the motivation of educated and autonomous personnel (psychology).

Specifically, research interests span six broad areas:
Concurrent engineering and coordination in complex systems
Managing highly novel, uncertain and ambiguous initiatives
Resource allocation, portfolio management, and strategy deployment
Performance measurement in R&D and uncertain projects
Incentives, motivation and cultural evolution (behavioural economics)
Manufacturing management and strategy deployment