November 01, 2010
In the new economy, the playing field is flatter and faster. Success in any field—in industry, in education, in politics—now requires actively seeking out change and embracing it. Successful leaders...
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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.
May 10, 2012
Turbo for Innovation Mathieu Mottrie, CEO, CREAX Projects CREAX stimulates the human creativity and supports the innovation process of companies through out of the box thinking and cross domain...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Chantrelle Nielsen tells the story of how her startup pioneered a new market for a dataset that had never been use before – signals produced as a byproduct of knowledge worker...
May 07, 2012
Accessing Internal Knowledge Large companies are increasingly seeking technologies from external sources. However, companies with multiple R&D sites have difficulty determining if solutions...
May 27, 2014
Creating a Learning Organization: How to Transfer & Apply Knowledge Across an Organization Clifford Spiro, PhD, Cliff Spiro Consulting Group LLC Knowledge is the coin of trade for R&D...
May 08, 2012
Innovation is a fuel for future growth. Many new drivers are changing the way companies are managing their innovation systems, including the pace of change, availability of talent and a reframing to...
May 29, 2012
Innovating for Under Served Segments in Emerging Markets - Panel Venkatesh Valluri, President, Ingersoll Rand India Paparao Kodali, Vice President & General Manager, Ingersoll Rand Engineering...
February 25, 2013
ROR Stage: Report out As baby boomers approach retirement age, companies experience an increasing need to capture the knowledge of seasoned staff members before they leave the workforce. This ROR...
May 01, 2011
The term “research and development” didn’t enter the vocabulary until the mid-twentieth century, although forward-thinking companies had been collaborating with gifted scientists for at least a...
November 01, 2011
The idea of a “new normal” has come to define our current economic era. It brings with it connotations of tight resources, rapid technological change, shortened product life cycles, and intense...
February 25, 2015
ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data The concept of weak ties is one of the most influential sociological concepts in the last 40 years. Weak ties refer to people we don't see frequently, those...
May 01, 2006
Given the exploding information on nanoscience, how are managers seeking and finding this knowledge? Predominately through the operation of social networks is the conclusion of an ongoing...
March 02, 2016
OVERVIEW: Information technology (IT) is the cornerstone of the modern new product development (NPD) process. A new generation of communication and collaboration tools has propagated into nearly all...
March 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: In the emerging service economy, many traditional product manufacturing companies are seeking innovative ways to do business, focusing on product-service combinations. Development of these...
October 17, 2012
Collaboration Continuum: Research-on-Research Report Out Natalie Schoch, Director of Knowledge Management, Kellogg Company Leonard Huskey, Associate for Corporate Programs, U.S. Army Research...
January 01, 2008
R&D support groups make essential contributions to the process of innovation and can help speed time-to-market, yet the role they play is often overlooked or undervalued relative to that of their...