April 27, 2018
As our innovation funnels grow in size and/or complexity to achieve corporate growth ambitions, our program management teams must become more efficient with their time and finite resources. Therefore...
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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,...
Sunday October 16, 2016 – Wednesday October 19, 2016
Join more than 275 of your R&D colleagues in Chicago to discuss three focus areas of this research initiative: 1. Big Data 2. Collaboration 3. Virtual Experimentation & Simulation
April 15, 2013
Finest Minds in Innovation Gather at IRI's Anniversary Celebration ARLINGTON, VA (April 15, 2013)— The Industrial Research Institute (IRI), an association that brings together companies and...
October 18, 2016
ROR stage: organization This project is seeking to identify (a) the specific best practices that IRI member companies use to identify whitespace opportunities and (b) actions successful organizations...
October 05, 2017
What happens when your Front End Innovation market and technology scouts encounter an external product, technology, IP, and/or supplier suitable for growth in your core adjacency platforms? How does...
June 29, 2017
The international context in which U.S. scientists and engineers create new knowledge and ideas is changing. Nations typically track such things by watching trends in the output of scientific papers...
September 08, 2020
It is highly unlikely that food is a source of Covid-19 contamination, experts say A team of experts on food contamination says it is highly unlikely that food is a source of Covid-19 transmission...
March 01, 2019
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. —Albert Einstein (attributed) I worked in the mailing...
May 24, 2011
Collaboration Continuum Explore how various Enterprise 2.0 and web tools, such as Knowledge Management Systems, SharePoint and wikis, can leverage a company’s accessibility to and growth of knowledge...
July 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Radical innovation is an engine of growth, but identifying likely opportunities can be challenging. Building on previous work, this paper explores the use and importance of nine strategies...
October 17, 2016
Track the history of simulation and analysis at Deere & Co. and hear about Deere’s vision for the near and far futures. Current analysis activities at John Deere are focused on verification and...
October 09, 2019
New product development (NPD) involves many estimates and assumptions in determining what financial outcome a portfolio of projects will deliver. We would like to understand what companies consider...
How to select successful R&D projects R&D Financial Regimes (1) The management funding decisions for R&D are usually guided by one or another of two prevailing viewpoints: 1. R&D As a...
August 30, 2016
Personal computers, smartphones, 3D printing, the World Wide Web: these world-changing inventions, and many others like them, all emerged from small cells of obsessed innovators out to change the...
LORD Corporation is seeking input on how other companies identify, develop, and launch market-based solutions. Their need for continued growth is driving teams to re-evaluate how they develop, launch...