May 10, 2017
Express Learning Our world is characterized by increasing social, technological and business disruption. Amidst this turmoil, traditional innovation processes do not have the agility required to...
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Thursday May 18, 2017 4:00pm
Hosted by the Campbell Soup Company The Industrial Research Institute 2017 Camden Regional Meeting will explore “ Identifying New Business Opportunities ” as part of a series of networking and...
March 07, 2017
Consumers are getting used to receiving free services in many different fields, and the popularity of the mobile app industry is feeding this phenomenon. Historically, advertising—a typical two-sided...
October 18, 2016
Research on Agile/Stage-Gate Hybrid Processes Wins 2016 Maurice Holland Award Award-winning article looks at new product development processes at manufacturing firms Chicago, IL (October 18, 2016)–...
October 10, 2017
The goal of this ROR has been to discover best practices for establishing a long-term vision for R&D that is tied to business strategies and how to use this vision to influence the strategy and...
Does your organization pay professional society dues for individuals? Typically members of a technical community participate in exterior memberships in professional societies -- ie AICHE, American...
How do you organize R&D? The CTO from Procter & Gamble, Bruce Brown, gave an excellent presentation on "Why Innovation Matters: Mastering a Reliable, Repeatable Process" as the opening...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics I. Technology Value Pyramid consists of a hierarchy of categories of metrics: Value Creation : Metrics which directly...
November 08, 2011
Using Strategic Foresight Methods to Influence Your Breakthrough Innovation Agenda Dr. Ted Farrington, Senior Consultant, AndSpace ConsultingPepsiCo R&D conducted an 18 month pilot program that...
Coming soon - PILOT IRI’s Research on Research program is being reworked in 2018 to improve operational or individual learning of members by benchmarking current best practices and studying ways to...
September 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Companies are increasingly using social media and other technologies to broaden the approach to idea generation and innovation both within and outside the walls of the organization. However...
Are you listening to your supply chain, or just your customers? Has anyone had success in driving innovation by bypassing your immediate (direct) customers and significantly impacting end-users or...
What Does Collaborative Generation of Knowledge Mean? Two main core values of IRI membership are the peer-to-peer transfer of knowledge and the research on best practices in technological innovation...
An assessment by interval rating scale of the extent to which project performance objectives are clearly defined and understood by all participants on the project team.
June 28, 2018
Atlanta, Ga. (6 June 2018)— Rolls-Royce Engineering Associate Fellow Andrew Harrison was presented with this year’s prestigious Maurice Holland Award, eponymously named in honor of the founder of...
What capabilities do you need to work globally? What behavioral and organizational capabilities have been successful for R&D organizations to function effectively and productively in different...