Leverage
of Technology for Growth Through Innovation and Strategic Planning
Steven
Yuen
(Extracted from Power Point slides
presentation)
Visions:
- ■Conduct market-driven, application-oriented research as well as
fundamental research
- ■Turn research into deliverable technologies
- ■Build a high profile and strategic research lab
- ■Grow the lab organically
- ■Develop good relationship with parent company
- ■Collaborate with product divisions
- ■Collaborate with other Docomo research labs
- ■Collaborate with American universities and research labs
Strategic Technology
Planning:
TECHNICAL
READINESS LEVELS
■TRL1
Preliminary Concept
■TRL2
Technology Concept
■TRL3
Proof of Concept
■TRL4
Breadboard validation in Lab
■TRL5
Breadboard validation in operational environment
R&D Strategy:
■35%
for basic research
■15%
consulting with product development
■50%
strategic applied research
R&D Topics:
■4G
Architectures and IP mobility Technologies
■3G
market extension with enabling technologies
■Address
market need for imode with enhancement in secure information exchange
technology
■Stay
one step ahead of state of the art wireless networking technology to benefit
future Docomo core market base.
■Enable
future commercial wireless internet applications
Collaboration Strategy:
■Continue
teaming relationship with current partners: ISU, Kansas State, UCLA, FSU,
Cornell
■Establish
teaming with other universities, research labs, and companies
■10X
projects are 50K funding projects that explores new ideas having at least 10
times productivity improvement
■Fund
academia for collaborative research if appropriate
■Initially
5 to 10 Projects Per Year
■Lead
Enterprise Wide Roll-Out of 10X Initiative
Performance Measures:
lBusiness
impact and Sales growth
lSales
/ technology investment ratio
lTechnology
project milestones
lPublications
lPresentations
lPatent
disclosures
lIETF
/ 3GPP standards discuss papers
lExternal
collaboration
lStaff
development
lHigh
energy, motivated, hard working, having passion in wireless networking, high
character
lCommitted
to working towards a common goal as a team - develop technology for our
parent company, NTT Docomo, to grow its business
lBuild
a team around engineers who like their job (labor of love) and who want the
company to do well no matter what it takes
lBelieve
in team concept set goal for team success without worrying about who
receives the credit
Roles
& Responsibilities:
Lab
Director
Leads
Development and Execution of the Labs Technology Initiatives
Responsible
for Meeting Lab Performance Commitments
Identifies
and Leads Business Needs and Technology Roadmap
Primary
Responsibility for Mentoring and Developing Lab Members
Champions
Collaborations Externally and Internally
Responsible
for Developing and Acquiring Necessary Skills Base
Senior
Research Staff
Widely
Recognized Technical Innovator both Externally and Across
Docomo
Identifies,
Creates and Promotes Technology to meet company needs
Mentors
and Guides Junior Technologists
Achieves
Research Project Commitments
Continually
Develops Knowledge & Capabilities to Stay on the Leading Edge of
Technology