R&D Budget Efficiency & Speed: Balancing Innovation Investment with Financial Discipline

Chief Product Officer Claire Vo provides a framework for balancing R&D investment speed and efficiency, emphasizing benchmarking, historical analysis, and alignment with growth goals. She argues that AI is fundamentally reshaping R&D budgeting through role restructuring, enabling junior talent to produce senior-level output, and requiring more fluid, continuous budget optimization rather than fixed annual allocations.