November 08, 2011
Sustainability Maturity Models Until recently the bottom line of financial reports was the overriding measure of a company’s success. Now it is the triple bottom line: People, Planet, and Profits...
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The strength of the Core Technical Competencies as characterized using the categories described in the "Third Generation R&D" Tutorial for either single competencies or groups of competencies.
November 01, 2017
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives News and Analysis of the Global Innovation Scene MaryAnne M. Gobble From the Editor...
October 10, 2017
As IRI and RTI launch their new trends initiative, SPRING, Ted Farrington reviews IRI's recent work on trends and the key findings from those studies. Jeff Cope and Tom Culver of RTI outline the...
May 24, 2011
Identifying Breakthrough Opportunities Explore how top innovation companies are driving breakthrough (versus sustaining) innovation now. How are they responding to the economy? Have they accelerated...
October 29, 2014
Sustainability-Driven Innovation ROR Stage: Conclusion, Report Out and Application Clinic This ROR has explored how sustainability can be used as a source of innovation success and business growth by...
March 22, 2017
Extracting value, market intelligence and competitive advantage from collaborative R&D requires support of a firm’s strategy with the right collaborative model, the right partners…and the right...
Sign up for upcoming online workshops FEBRUARY 17 Conducting Business Experiments MARCH 17 Business Model Innovation APRIL 21 Identifying & Sourcing External Technology for Innovation MAY 21...
October 17, 2012
Business Model Innovation Challenges Stage: gathering and analyzing data Innovation outside of the core provides an opportuinity for growth, however, it generally requires a different business model...
February 2013 - Spring 2015 This ROR group seeks to explore how IRI firms structure supplier relationships to: Identify enabling supplier technologies 3-5 years out Encourage suppliers to focus their...
May 07, 2012
Early Identification of Disruptive Technologies This group is exploring if a process exists that is good at identifying disruptive technologies before they happen. The project objectives are to...
March 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: This paper looks at the search strategies firms use to identify ideas for radical innovation that extend their range of products and services beyond their immediate environments. After...
July 20, 2020
Network with other IRI members at our Virtual Fall Networks Conference For the first time ever IRI is turning its Fall Networks Conference into an online event! IRI’s Networks bring practitioners...
November 08, 2011
Virtual Teams Examine the best practices, difficulties, benefits and logistics of utilizing Virtual Teams. The cultural and process dynamics of virtual teams drives the need to work in different ways...
November 08, 2011
Managing Global R&D Networks Without a full understanding of what it means to transform into a global organization, how can you accurately assess risk and uncertainty, proper channels of...
May 14, 2018
Since our original article appeared in Research-Technology Management in 2007, just slightly more than 10 years have passed—the equivalent to three generations of change in R&D management in...