What small things do you do to reward innovation? How does your company recognize innovation for teams and individual employees on a small scale (as opposed to big one time awards)? I know cash is...
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Can you help with Life Cycle Analyses? We are interested in gaining expertise on Life Cycle Analyses and methodologies. Do you have any information or recommendations for training, courses,...
August 21, 2019
Featured Speakers: Simonsen Amber 200x200.png Amber Simsonsen Director, Guest Product Development & Delivery Alaska Airlines Bushnell Dennis 200x200.png Dennis Bushnell Chief Scientist NASA...
March 01, 2009
Ray Kurzweil has garnered a great deal of attention by exploring the future path of computer technologies. His books use past trends and current information to predict what the world will be like 10...
1999 - 2000 Deliverables Description Objective: Understand the process required to make "quantum-leap" product improvements as opposed to incremental changes A study of the factors involved in...
Tuesday September 10, 2019 – Wednesday September 11, 2019
Attendance boasts some of the top names in global R&D. The Forum is kept to a manageable size to facilitate healthier discussion relevant to the agenda designed and structured by the participants.
March 08, 2018
Changing the Way New Products Are Developed Integrating Agile project management methods into a Stage-Gate system offers both opportunities and challenges. Agile development methods borrowed from the...
2011 - 2014 Deliverables Report out Winter Meeting 2014 Description IRI’s ROR working group on Virtual Teams explored best practices that differentiate successful virtual teams, including hybrid...
April 28, 2015
Panel Discussion: Democratizing Innovation Jim Euchner, VP Global Innovation, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company Jonathan Kuniholm, President, Open Prosthetics Project Diego Tamburini, Manufacturing...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project: Strategic Challenges in R&D Management Research Initiative Previously the IRI completed a study to evaluate how the management of science and technology would change by the...
2011 Deliverables Report out Member Summit 2010 Perspectives , RTM, Volume 54, Issue 3, 2011 Order The Gender Diversity Best Practices Playbook Description The increasing number of female graduates...
2007 - 2010 Deliverables Report out, Annual Meeting 2009 Description Literature is rich with information on single portfolios, but is “lean” when describing management practices for managing a group...
How do you address speed-to-market challenges? Crown’s Corporate R&D organization has a number of initiatives underway to improve our speed of technical delivery for the Businesses across a broad...
October 17, 2012
Putting Technology and Marketing in the Driver's Seat of Innovation Gregory W. Nelson, PhD, Senior VP and CTO, Eastman Chemical Company Like championship race cars, winning world-class innovation...
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...
How do you spark creativity with limited resources? I am trying to establish a feeling of creativity and curiosity on what's going on outside of the narrow world of our own products. We have a sub...