October 14, 2014
How will Virtual Experimentation and Simulation Impact R&D? Ed McLarney, Associate CIO, Innovation and Technology, Office of Chief Information Officer, NASA Langley Research Center Increasingly,...
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November 20, 2013
Opportunity Insight to Customer Delight ROR Stage: gathering & analyzing data This ROR seeks to identify how to increase effectiveness of R&D by delighting customers. Participants explore.....
November 20, 2013
Reinventing Supplier Innovation Relationships ROR Stage: gathering & analyzing data This ROR seeks to explore how IRI firms structure supplier relationships to: • Identify enabling supplier...
May 21, 2013
IRI Diamond Jubilee Institutionalizing Innovation Competency Through People ROR Stage: Gathering & analyzing data This ROR is investigating how firms develop innovation workforce excellence;...
October 16, 2012
Early Identification of Disruptive Technologies Stage: gathering and analyzing data Many team members have had disruptive technology impact their businesses in positive and negative ways. This ROR...
October 17, 2012
Virtual Teams Stage: gathering data The ability to assemble high performing virtual teams is essential in today’s global business environnment. This ROR identified eight key themes to explore for...
May 07, 2012
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...
November 08, 2011
Leadership in R&D is critical to a company’s success since R&D is the source of innovation and future wealth generation for the organization. Examine an evaluation of the skills and...
May 24, 2011
The New "Hows" of Innovation Pamela Henderson, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, NewEdge, Inc. Miles Eddowes, PhD, Associate Director, Open Innovation, Kraft Foods Robert Godfroid, PhD, Director,...
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 24, 2016
Breakout Session Individual firms and other organizations derive useful insight from understanding technology megatrends to inform a variety of strategic and tactical decisions across the innovation...
May 25, 2016
Express Learning Transformation is everywhere. Driven by technological, individual and societal forces transformation creates uncertainty. What are the ultimate causes of transformation taking place...
May 25, 2016
Express Learning The structure of medicine and the practice of surgery are changing based on governmental policies and emerging new technologies. This session focuses on the growing application of...
May 25, 2016
Express Learning A recent highly acclaimed book by economist, Robert Gordon, “The Rise and Fall of American Growth,” argues the epoch of rapid growth in the US is over. Do R&D firms have the...
July 13, 2018
Breakout Session As futurist Gary Hamel so aptly says, ”We are the first generation in history that needs to cope with an exponentially accelerated pace of change.” While agreeing with Gary is easy,...
May 01, 2019
One of the most complex and expensive objects ever made is a Lab that fewer than 300 people have ever seen. The US National Laboratory on the International Space Station is just that, a Laboratory...