November 01, 2017
Incumbent firms face steep challenges in dealing with technological change and associated innovation streams. The firm’s senior leadership team, and especially R&D leadership, plays a central...
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September 01, 2007
OVERVIEW: Sourcing innovation externally and being able to collaborate are the keys to success in the “flat world” that Thomas Friedman has written about. The challenge continues to be how to...
July 01, 2019
The next industrial revolution—after mechanization, mass production, and digitization—will merge technology with physical products to create cyber-physical systems that connect people with the...
October 30, 2017
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March 14, 2018
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As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures study initiative. The project resulted in 4 plausible, yet provocative scenarios about the future...
January 01, 2013
As this issue of RTM arrives in your mail-box, IRI—our publisher—enters its 75th year. It does so at what John Seely Brown would call a Cambrian moment for innovation, an era of explosive change with...
(Assess how corporate strategy and sources of funding influence the organization of the R&D function) The subcommittee on this topic developed a questionnaire to determine how companies bring...
(Study barriers to change imposed from outside the R&D organization) A Subcommittee on this topic developed a questionnaire in cooperation with the Technology Management Center at Rutgers...
(Provide a model of sustained innovation and accountability) R&D's role in the innovation process can be meaningfully represented by a hierarchy of managerial factors (the Technology Value...
January 11, 2016
This year, IRI partnered with R&D Magazine, combining the Trends Survey with R&D Magazine’s Global R&D Funding Forecast (GFF) survey to extend the reach of the survey and expand its scope...
Thursday November 19, 2020 11:00am – 12:00pm
Digital Alchemy to Create Value and Reduce Risk Join IRI’s Lee Green as she and Shah discuss: - Operational excellence - Monetizing Data and its Governance - Optimizing ROI for R&D Shah Karim is...
November 09, 2016
OVERVIEW: The ability to innovate at speed is not a luxury for today's companies; it is a matter of survival. But in traditional corporate structures, there are seemingly countless business controls...
May 01, 2007
Recent concerns about energy resource sustainability and security of supply have raised awareness that oil and gas production faces significant challenges that can only be met through highly...
July 01, 2007
The Strategy Paradox: Why Committing To Success Leads To Failure and What To Do About It" by Michael E. RaynorMichael Raynor X-Teams: How to Build Teams that Lead Innovate and Succeed Invisibile...
September 01, 2006
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., the world’s only combined gases and chemicals company, operates in over 30 countries, serving customers in the technology, energy, healthcare, and industrial markets...