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IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.


RTM - Innovation Portfolio Architecture
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...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Project Management
  • Risk Management
RTM-Evaluating Radical Innovation Portfolios
September 01, 2007
Radical innovation in large firms is a risky endeavor, exacerbated by high levels of uncertainty and long cycle times. Moreover, management lacks evaluation tools that are appropriate for the degree...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • New Business Development
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management
Community Forum - Organizational Support for R&D
The research & development activities of our company support a very mature chemical process industry. One support group focuses on developing conceptual process designs to help researchers...
  • Community Forum
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Organization
  • Process Improvement
  • Risk Management
RTM - Valuing and Comparing Small Portfolios
March 01, 2010
Many of the tools used in valuing and selecting projects are justifiably applicable only to large portfolios because they assess value by using statistical concepts, such as probability, mean and...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management
Member Summit 2011 at a Glance - Best Conversations Start Here - Delivering Growth in the New Reality
November 09, 2011
A significant number of organizations, and therefore their R&D operations, have gone through a major transition since the economic collapse in 2008/2009. For most companies, this means doing more...
  • Audio/Video
  • Presentation
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Strategic Flexibility in R&D
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...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • New Business Development
  • Increase Return on Investment
  • Risk Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • Strategic Planning
  • Project Management
Member Summit 2015 - Pragmatic Analytics Report Out
October 19, 2015
Pragmatic Analytics for Managing Project Risks: ROR Report Out Robert T. Williams, Program Manager, Platform Innovation, Boeing Martha J. Collins, PhD, Technology Director for Global Innovation,...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • Audio/Video
  • Risk Management
  • IRI Research
RTM - Where Are All the Breakthrough New Products?
September 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: There is a real shortage of breakthrough initiatives in businesses’ development portfolios. A major challenge in developing these high-risk projects is portfolio management—how executives...
  • RTM Journal
  • New Business Development
  • Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management
RTM - Managing Risk in Pharmaceutical R&D
March 01, 2010
Risk is a powerful force in innovative organizations for the obvious reason that it means the future outcomes of decisions are uncertain and, less obviously, because it can foster decision biases...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Risk Management
  • Strategic Planning
Brown Bag - Innovation Portfolio Architecture
April 11, 2011
Join Scott Mathews, Boeing Technical Fellow and technical lead for the Business Engineering initiative, Boeing, Inc. , to discuss “Innovation Portfolio Architecture,” published in the November-...
  • Audio/Video
  • Presentation
  • Management
  • Portfolio Management
  • New Product Development
Balancing Risk in the R&D Portfolio Report
December 02, 2019
This report summarizes results from an IRI survey exploring how organizations document risk and use it in assessing their R&D portfolios. The topic of risk in the context of portfolio management...
  • Report
  • Research
  • Portfolio Management
  • Risk Management
RTM - Dealing with Shortages of Critical Materials
September 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Critical metals are high-value elements used in very small amounts that provide key functionality to technology products. These metals are crucial for the functioning of a technological...
  • Risk Management
  • IRI Research
Member Summit 2014- Pragmatic Analytics
October 15, 2014
Pragmatic Analytics for Managing Project Risk ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data The objective of this project is to help companies improve decision quality around projects and business...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • Risk Management
RTM - Innovation and Risk
March 01, 2011
It is the distinct role of senior management to manage the risk of innovation—to decide when to make the big bets and how to make the little bets that create options for the future. Nevertheless, it...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Risk Management
Annual Meeting 2014 - Managing High Uncertainty Projects
May 21, 2014
Managing High Uncertainty Projects - An Options Approach Ronald Pierantozzi, PhD, Managing Partner, Cameron and Associates, LLC Martha Collins, PhD, Director, Global Technology Centers, Air Products...
  • Presentation
  • Finance
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Risk Management
RTM-Diagnosing Risk in Radical Innovation Projects
September 01, 2007
Radical innovation projects are inherently risky. A number of in-depth case studies have been carried out to identify the kinds of risk that are characteristic of this type of new product development...
  • RTM Journal
  • New Product Development
  • Risk Management

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