February 18, 2013
What effect does disruptive innovation have on companies who innovate top quality brands and then lower prices as they scale up? http://iriwebblog.org/2013/02/18/disruptive-innovation-a-fatal-illness...
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June 06, 2016
The 2016 Annual Meeting went off without a hitch! A big thanks to our amazing members who could make it out to Orlando for this intriguing and thought-provoking meeting filled with great content...
November 01, 2008
The number of collaborative research agreements is increasing rapidly. Large high-tech companies are engaging smaller ones, Federal laboratories, universities, international firms, and competitors in...
February 06, 2017
Member Highlight: Keoki Jackson (CTO, Lockheed Martin), The Path to Leadership. How does one become the Chief Technology Officer of a large, leading, multinational aerospace and defense R&D...
January 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Drawing on a case study at Ubisoft, a major creative firm in the videogame industry, this article shows how a firm can nurture and engage with its knowing communities to fuel the front end...
September 01, 2008
Portfolio planning involves five basic tasks: identifying current as well as future gaps in the portfolio relative to the firm's overall business strategy, striking a balance between strengthening...
August 02, 2017
Read the write-up from the discussion held at the 2017 CTO Forum among 22 senior R&D leaders who came together to explore the topic of discontinuous innovation and innovation culture. 2017 CTO...
January 04, 2018
I have always been intrigued by the notion of forest succession. Following the burnout of a forest, the trees that grow are not (at first) the ones that were burned. The soil and the light are not...
Tuesday June 04, 2019 1:00pm – 4:00pm
Join a small group of innovators to discuss how their organizations are handling one of the biggest challenges affecting innovation management today: encouraging autonomy and empowering R&D teams...
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...
March 01, 2015
I started my career in research as a chemist. I earned a PhD in polymer chemistry at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, and I worked for three years in research on polymer...
January 01, 2014
Rick Miller is the founding President of Olin College, which seeks to redefine undergraduate engineering education and attract more students to the profession. In this interview, he discusses the...
March 17, 2016
If you need to change your organization, to make it more efficient and effective, I advise you to first get acquainted with the thinking of W. Edwards Deming (1900–1993) and Russell Ackoff (1919–2009...
September 01, 2010
As of this writing, and after 88 days of concerted effort, the oil spill at the site of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico has been capped, at least temporarily stopping an...
March 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: In response to difficult market conditions, Japanese truck manufacturer Mitsubishi Fuso faced the need to reduce its R&D costs by 30 percent. Rather than adopt a simple cost-cutting...
July 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: The term “open innovation” was introduced in my 2003 book, which outlined a new model for industrial in-novation. Since that time, the concept has been adopted by hundreds of academic...