(Identify the most successful practices of technology-intensive firms and provide recommendations for adoption) A Holland-Award-winning paper was published on this topic in RTM during 1996. The paper...
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August 24, 2020
Virtual i101: Managing Innovation Get your innovation team up to speed quickly with these two virtual i101 sessions entirely online! The IRI Virtual i101 course is designed to provide an introduction...
February 08, 2021
2021 Virtual Spring Networks Conference Registration Now Open! Join fellow innovation leaders for dynamic discussions and networking! The 2021 Virtual Spring Networks Conference, March 8-11, will...
October 05, 2012
Join Rich Sonnenblick, CEO, Enrich Consulting, to learn what works and what doesn't in R&D- driven portfolio management. Noon Eastern, Friday, October 5 Attendees are encouraged to share ideas...
October 09, 2018
Last week we asked you to submit examples of job descriptions for innovation professionals. Here are the submissions: Director, Technology Innovation Senior Director of R&D Process Consultant...
Perspectives on the "Corporate "Fellow title and its variations.
Friday September 06, 2019 12:00pm – 1:30pm
Join Applied Marketing Science (AMS) to learn how machine learning has revolutionized the way companies gather insights for innovation. AMS, in collaboration with researchers at Massachusetts...
How do you transition innovations from labs to business groups? How do IRI member companies transition innovations from research labs into the business organizations for commercialization? Do...
April 10, 2015
Dr. Anita Friis Sommer illustrates how combining a conventional Stage-Gate process with elements of Agile development can provide a more flexible, responsive product development process. https://www...
October 19, 2015
Innovation Culture: ROR Report Out Richard N. Dodge, II, R&E Senior Technical Director, Kimberly-Clark Corporation Sylvester Taylor, Director - Assessments, Tools, & Publications, Center for...
January 01, 2012
New Rules and Roles for the R&D “Lab” of the Future In May 2007, Richard Antcliff challenged IRI members with a presentation asserting the notion that “three tsunamis” were about to break upon R...
February 03, 2017
The Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID) at Georgia Tech, in combination with Kimberly-Clark Corporation, recently completed two biologically inspired design projects. These projects...
November 01, 2019
This presentation covers a case study delivered by Dr. Anita Friis Sommer, detailing the LEGO Group's Agile transformation journey. LEGO Group launched this transformation of its corporate digital...
July 05, 2018
Innovation Research Interchange (IRI) recently hosted a gathering of chief technology officers for the purpose of finding solutions to one of the greatest R&D challenges to date: digital...
Keynote Presenters Opening Keynote: Adaptive Innovation - The Fabric of Effective R&D Keoki Jackson, ScD, CTO, Lockheed Martin Tuesday, May 9 from 8:00 to 9:15 am Dr. Jackson shares his...
August 31, 2020
Anti-covid-19 medicines are being approved too easily What do a malaria drug, a Russian vaccine and the blood plasma of people who have recovered from covid-19 have in common? All have been approved...