August 16, 2017
An IRI member organization would like to benchmark with peers to determine how your organization tracks execution performance. They are evaluating the measures they use to evaluate accomplishments...
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How do you handle the transfer of projects from Research to Development Bucket? We would like to know how different companies handle the many roadblocks and naysayers when it comes to transfer of...
What PLM Costs Should We Expect? We are looking for benchmark costs on implementing a new PLM system for a CPG company that maintains an active catalog of 11,000 products with 300 new product...
2013 - 2015 Deliverables Pragmatic Analytics Report out , Member Summit 2015 RTM article - Risk Analytics for Innovation Projects Description Innovators are always confronted with significant...
January 01, 2010
During the first half of 2009, the Research & Technology Executive Council of the Corporate Executive Board interviewed and surveyed R&D executives ( 1 ) from over 100 global companies ( 2 )...
September 01, 2006
Multi-project organizations must carefully balance pressures to commission new initiatives against engineering’s capacity to effectively execute the projects. Although absorbing new projects in...
December 08, 2017
Setting NPD priorities is a critical element of managing a portfolio for new products. Once the priorities are set the next big challenge is often responding to those priorities. We would like to...
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...
What tools do you use to make scientists better project managers? We are interested in learning what tools other organizations use to make their scientists better project managers. We would prefer to...
Do you have a standardized way of naming projects? We would like to have a standardized way to name projects that we are working on in R&D. Today, a project can begin with a name that is given...
How do you manage R&D investment during an economic downturn? Is there any data or information that shows if a company/organization continues to maintain or increase investment in R&D during...
November 01, 2006
Meaningful risk analysis can dramatically improve the likelihood of project managers delivering major system development projects on time. At issue are the questions, “Which risk events are most...
April 12, 2017
Looking to reboot your approach to innovation projects? Have they failed to achieve the impact or organizational buy-in you had hoped for? Have you experienced misfires with consultants or among your...
November 01, 2010
An innovation portfolio, which is focused on early-stage ideas whose role in the overall strategy is still evolving, is very different from a project portfolio, which is focused on managing products...
May 01, 2004
Managers choosing which R&D projects to fund typically rely on rank-ordering heuristics when other valuation methods are not applicable. These heuristics are powerful, but they have a number of...
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