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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.


Community Forum
The Forum is designed to increase member networking opportunities and help members quickly find solutions that can be implemented in their organizations.
Community Forum - Benchmarking Industry Best Practices
March 27, 2017
Sonoco is currently in the process of updating dashboard metrics to track progress against innovation goals for the company. We would like to get feedback on what priority metrics your company tracks...
  • Community Forum
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  • Increase Return on Investment
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Manager, New Product Development
Acountability & Objectives Develop and drive the global Vision, Strategy, Stage/Gate Process, and resulting Business Plans for Industrial New Products. These new products will be primarily non-...
Community Forum - Listening to Your Supply Chain
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...
  • Community Forum
  • Leverage External Resources
  • New Product Development
  • supply chain
  • customer needs
Community Forum - Presenting a Technology Roadmap to Customers
Our organization has a robust technology roadmap process and we are exploring various ways to make the data understandable and relevant to a broad customer set. How has your organization overcome this challenge? In addition, do you have recommendations for how your organization has engaged customers directly in roadmap plans and updates?
  • Community Forum
  • IT
  • Tools and Techniques
Community Forum - New Products in a B2B Environment
How do you introduce a new product in a B2B environment? Is the new product managed in a centralized manner from HQ, or is the new product introduced in a de-centralized manner with the global...
  • Community Forum
  • New Product Development
Community Forum - Vitality Index
August 16, 2017
What is Your Vitality Index? Vitality Index (new product revenues as a percent of total revenues) is a common metric used to show the innovation effectiveness of an R&D organization. Two IRI...
  • Community Forum
  • Finance
  • Increase Return on Investment
  • Metrics/Finance
Community Forum - Holding on to Intellectual Property
How do you determine how long to hold on to IP? I am interested in learning how organizations determine when to keep intellectual property and when to give it up. What are the filters or questions...
  • Community Forum
  • Legal
  • Manage IP
  • Intellectual Asset Management
Community Forum - Innovation Index
Do you use an Innovation Index? At John Deere, we are considering developing an “Innovation Index”, an indicator that measures the health and performance of our innovation efforts. We recognize that...
  • Community Forum
  • New Product Development
ETN - Push-Pull Strategy & Tactics for Adoption of External Technology
Two ways to launch new technology offerings are to push technology forward to business and customers or to have business and market needs pull, i.e. seek out technology and product solutions. Very...
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Networks - ETN - Push Pull Strategy & Tactic for Adoption of External Technology
September 15, 2015
Two ways to launch new technology offerings are to push technology forward to business and customers or to have business and market needs pull, i.e. seek out technology and product solutions. Very...
  • Networks
  • Presentation
  • External Relations
  • Leverage External Resources
  • Strategic Planning
New Hire Rotational Programs
New hire rotational programs in R&D.
  • Community Forum
  • Human Resources
  • Talent Management
Community Forum - Forecasting Disruptive Technologies
How do you forecast disruptive technologies? We are looking to learn how companies distinguish between disruptive and breakthrough technologies. How do you define and identify disruptive technology?...
  • Community Forum
  • Strategic Planning
  • Open Innovation
TVP - Metric 6 Development Cycle Time
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition The elapsed time from either identification of a customer product need or the establishment of a...
  • Research
  • Technology Value Program
Member Summit 2016 - Session Abstracts
Opening Keynote: Driving Motorola Solutions’ Digital Transformation with Innovation through Data Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office Paul Steinberg, Senior...
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  • John Deere
  • Hershey
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • FM Global
  • RTI International
Community Forum - R&D Project Execution Performance
August 17, 2017
How do you track R&D project execution performance? An IRI member organization would like to benchmark with peers to determine how your organization tracks execution performance. They are...
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  • Management
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Innovation

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