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Frederik van Oene

Associate Director

Belgium

Frederik’s work is mostly focused on helping organizations to become better at innovating.

Areas of Focus

Education

Twente University in the Netherlands
Chemical Engineering, Business Administration
Manchester Business School
Business Administration
INSEAD (InBoard Program)

Frederik is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based in Brussels, and a member of the Technology and Innovation Management Group. Most of his work is focused on helping organizations enact the changes required to improve performance and realize their objectives. He has extensively worked in innovation, R&D and technology management, strategy implementation, and improving organization development and effectiveness in the chemicals capital goods, agriculture, aquaculture, pharmaceuticals and consumer goods industries. He has over 30 years of experience in management consulting.

He is co-author of the books Third Generation R&D Management, published by Harvard Business School Press, and The Innovation Premium, published by Perseus Books.

He regularly teaches Innovation and Technology Management.

Accelerating building energy efficiency
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Accelerating building energy efficiency
Current approaches and mechanisms are not sufficient to deliver on the European “Renovation Wave” ambitions. There needs to be a paradigm change to deliver value and leverage innovative private funding on top of sector subsidies. This Viewpoint puts the stakes and challenges in perspective and provides concrete recommendations to improve training, ecosystem development, sales approaches, innovation funding, and monitoring the results of individual homeowner choices, some of which can also be applicable to industrial and commercial segments.
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ESG: Last call to take effective action
ESG: Last call to take effective action
How innovation unlocks economic opportunities in a volatile world
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From good to great: Enhancing innovation performance through effective management processes
From good to great: Enhancing innovation performance through effective management processes
Results of the 9th Arthur D. Little Global Innovation Excellence Benchmark
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Insights into world class idea enrichment
Ben Thuriaux-Aleman, Frederik van Oene
We are entering an era that will demand unheralded levels of creativity as companies constantly innovate and reinvent themselves to succeed in the search for growth and margins. This places increasing pressure on companies to generate a steady stream of high quality ideas that can eventually deliver top and bottom line growth. This viewpoint looks best practices in developing, nurturing, and enriching ideas.  Best practices identified include: time-limited ideation challenges for key strategic issues and a dedicated process to enrich and select winning ideas.
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Insight into resource & competence management
Ben Thuriaux-Aleman, Frederik van Oene
The ever increasing rate of technology development and the combination of new disciplines places increasing demands on competence management in R&D and, if companies fail to develop or target the wrong areas, the consequences are greater and it’s harder to recover in time. One of the greatest inefficiencies in R&D is bottlenecks and delays in getting products to market, often due to resource constraints, hits companies hard.
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Chemicals
Capital efficient chemical companies
Frederik van Oene
Cash is king in business, and during a downturn it becomes the main concern of every company. With the credit crunch in full force, a superficial analysis would suggest that capital intensive industries would be hardest hit, and that their executives cannot avoid having to prepare for very lean times ahead.
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Consumer Goods & Retail
The Future of Agri-Food
Phil Webster , Frederik van Oene, Maki Kurosawa
The world population continues to grow, and by 2050 a 70% increase in food production will be required to sustain it. Science and technology is widely recognized as being a key enabler to achieving this step change. However, many businesses in the agri-food industry struggle to invest precious resources in long term science and technology. In this article, the authors explore some of the key trends and challenges in the agri-food industry, and explain how foresight can be used to both stimulate innovation and provide shortcuts to markets.
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Frederik is a Partner at Arthur D. Little, based in Brussels, and a member of the Technology and Innovation Management Group. Most of his work is focused on helping organizations enact the changes required to improve performance and realize their objectives. He has extensively worked in innovation, R&D and technology management, strategy implementation, and improving organization development and effectiveness in the chemicals capital goods, agriculture, aquaculture, pharmaceuticals and consumer goods industries. He has over 30 years of experience in management consulting.

He is co-author of the books Third Generation R&D Management, published by Harvard Business School Press, and The Innovation Premium, published by Perseus Books.

He regularly teaches Innovation and Technology Management.

Accelerating building energy efficiency
Energy, Utilities & Resources
Accelerating building energy efficiency
Current approaches and mechanisms are not sufficient to deliver on the European “Renovation Wave” ambitions. There needs to be a paradigm change to deliver value and leverage innovative private funding on top of sector subsidies. This Viewpoint puts the stakes and challenges in perspective and provides concrete recommendations to improve training, ecosystem development, sales approaches, innovation funding, and monitoring the results of individual homeowner choices, some of which can also be applicable to industrial and commercial segments.
Find out more
ESG: Last call to take effective action
ESG: Last call to take effective action
How innovation unlocks economic opportunities in a volatile world
Find out more
From good to great: Enhancing innovation performance through effective management processes
From good to great: Enhancing innovation performance through effective management processes
Results of the 9th Arthur D. Little Global Innovation Excellence Benchmark
Find out more
Insights into world class idea enrichment
Ben Thuriaux-Aleman, Frederik van Oene
We are entering an era that will demand unheralded levels of creativity as companies constantly innovate and reinvent themselves to succeed in the search for growth and margins. This places increasing pressure on companies to generate a steady stream of high quality ideas that can eventually deliver top and bottom line growth. This viewpoint looks best practices in developing, nurturing, and enriching ideas.  Best practices identified include: time-limited ideation challenges for key strategic issues and a dedicated process to enrich and select winning ideas.
Find out more
Insight into resource & competence management
Ben Thuriaux-Aleman, Frederik van Oene
The ever increasing rate of technology development and the combination of new disciplines places increasing demands on competence management in R&D and, if companies fail to develop or target the wrong areas, the consequences are greater and it’s harder to recover in time. One of the greatest inefficiencies in R&D is bottlenecks and delays in getting products to market, often due to resource constraints, hits companies hard.
Find out more
Chemicals
Capital efficient chemical companies
Frederik van Oene
Cash is king in business, and during a downturn it becomes the main concern of every company. With the credit crunch in full force, a superficial analysis would suggest that capital intensive industries would be hardest hit, and that their executives cannot avoid having to prepare for very lean times ahead.
Find out more
Consumer Goods & Retail
The Future of Agri-Food
Phil Webster , Frederik van Oene, Maki Kurosawa
The world population continues to grow, and by 2050 a 70% increase in food production will be required to sustain it. Science and technology is widely recognized as being a key enabler to achieving this step change. However, many businesses in the agri-food industry struggle to invest precious resources in long term science and technology. In this article, the authors explore some of the key trends and challenges in the agri-food industry, and explain how foresight can be used to both stimulate innovation and provide shortcuts to markets.
Find out more

More About Frederik
  • Twente University in the Netherlands
    Chemical Engineering, Business Administration
  • Manchester Business School
    Business Administration
  • INSEAD (InBoard Program)