November 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Innovation is essential to success in today’s world. Many companies have strong R&D departments, but sometimes the greatest innovations come from those who know the company and its...
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IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.
November 01, 2011
IBM has been conducting “Jams” for 10 years now. A Jam is an intense, large-scale, online discussion about an issue that matters. Jams have been sponsored to engage employees about corporate values,...
January 11, 2016
Progress in any field happens in fits and starts. That’s as true in innovation as anywhere else. Often, a best practice emerges because it has demonstrated the potential to significantly improve a...
2013 - 2015 Deliverables Report out, Member Summit 2015 Description This ROR explored what features of organizational design or social networking help employees maintain relationships with weak ties...
2007 - 2009 Deliverables Report Out Description Objective: Define leading edge practices used to deliver innovative products and services, particularly with respect to Leadership, processes &...
January 01, 2010
During the first half of 2009, the Research & Technology Executive Council of the Corporate Executive Board interviewed and surveyed R&D executives ( 1 ) from over 100 global companies ( 2 )...
January 01, 2010
I was teaching an undergraduate math class in 1985 and decided to give the students a fun extra-credit assignment. “Find out what a googol is,” I told them. This was a time before the Internet and...
July 01, 2010
Since Henry Chesbrough published Open Innovation (2003), the paradigm he described has been a subject of great interest and experimentation in corporations. Chesbrough defined open innovation as...
September 01, 2010
As of this writing, and after 88 days of concerted effort, the oil spill at the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico has been capped, at least temporarily stopping an...
January 01, 2009
New product development that depends on technology transfer among partners is difficult. For technology intensive firms, a range of factors—from the nature of competition to an enterprise’s market...
January 01, 2009
New product development that depends on technology transfer among partners is difficult. For technology intensive firms, a range of factors—from the nature of competition to an enterprise’s market...
May 01, 2009
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are fuzzy graph structures that represent causal reasoning. This article proposes a means of building and using such maps to support the managers as well as analysts of R&D...
July 01, 2009
In today’s competitive environment, the ability of an organization to innovate is paramount. While most organizations have fl ashes or spurts of innovation, only a handful have been able to innovate...
July 01, 2008
Competitor analysis is critical to strategy formulation and implementation. Firms are able to develop and deploy better strategies if their competitors’ responses can be analyzed or even predicted...
September 01, 2008
Technology executives are increasingly being called upon to find innovation opportunities along the technological frontier. To do this properly, they need a special kind of technological knowledge—...
March 08, 2018
The principles of lean manufacturing have increasingly been adapted to create practices for lean innovation. The common elements of such systems in practice are a relentless focus on the customer;...