Dr. Robin Williams consults on R&D management, research models, and processes&.see robinwilliams-randd.com. He is a member of the Engineering Deans advisory boards at UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced. Previously he was the Associate Lab Director of the IBM Almaden Research Center, where he assisted with strategy and innovation for IBM Research, and in running the Almaden lab and the client visitor program. He was the Research Relationship Manager for IBM's Global Public Sector (sales, services and consulting) and for the IBM Government industry. He managed research in Content Management, multimedia digital libraries, rights management, preservation of data, and storage systems. Williams has published many papers, given numerous talks and is the recipient of many patents. He was a master inventor at IBM.

He chaired the ACM SIGGRAPH professional society (75-77), and conferences and program committees. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM professional societies. His Ph.D. in Computer Science is from New York University, and his BSc, EL Eng degree with 1st class honours. is from Imperial College, London.

Services offered include:

• Creating an innovative culture
• Establishing a (small) R&D group or lab
• Creating or confirming visions and missions
• Defining R&D strategies
• Planning, managing projects
• Measuring results of research
• Transferring technology to products and services
• Generating Intellectual Property (patents)
• Recruiting and motivating researchers
• Choosing an appropriate model of research

Dr. Williams has developed a business model of research to improve research effectiveness and he wrote a book on R&D management based on his experiences.