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...
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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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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-...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...