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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.
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Opening Keynote: Driving Motorola Solutions’ Digital Transformation with Innovation through Data Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office Paul Steinberg, Senior...
External or internal customer evaluation of the capabilities and output of the R&D function or the innovation process.
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...
September 22, 2017
We are interested to learn how other organizations classify their seasonal launches with regard to portfolio management. Currently, our seasonal launches aren't considered innovation, so we want to...
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?...