Patent ID: 8620702

Claim:
A method for capturing research decision flow in Research and Development (R&D) of a new product or technology, the method comprising: defining or modifying and capturing an objective of the R&D of the new product or technology in a linked information record; determining or modifying and capturing one or more requirements for fulfilling the objective of the new product or technology in the dynamically linked information record; identifying or modifying and capturing a set of risks of failing to fulfill one or more requirements of the new product or technology in the dynamically linked information record; developing or modifying and capturing in the dynamically linked information record a task plan to perform at least one of; satisfying the one or more requirements; and mitigating one or more risks of the set of risks; and generating the linked information record in a computer system operatively connected to a storage device or arrangement of storage devices configured to capture the research decision flow.