January 01, 2003
The specific ways in which companies organize the relationship between central R&D and the business units vary considerably, this study shows. In the External Partnership Model, the CRD group...
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January 01, 2002
Growth-oriented companies frequently identify attractive business development opportunities that lie in markets new to them and require new product/technology capabilities. Successfully capturing...
January 01, 2001
Most corporations lack a precise, operational definition of their product platforms, without which progress is difficult to achieve. With that definition, new product strategy must be recast to...
November 01, 1986
Research has progressed from being an affordable luxury to becoming an expensive requirement. But the question today is, "Where do we go from here? " Assuming that governmental and societal factors...
May 14, 2018
Gridley! Gridley! Get in here; we’re in crisis mode! We need someone to develop relationships with Chinese universities pronto. Our competitors are ahead of us and if we don’t move fast, all the good...
May 14, 2018
Humans instinctively think about the future. The ability to imagine a variety of different outcomes from a given action, and to predict future events based on recognized patterns from the past, is a...
September 01, 2018
The development of novel digital technologies connected to the Internet of Things, along with advancements in artificial intelligence and automation, is enabling a new wave of manufacturing...
January 01, 2019
A bibliometric study of Research-Technology Management (RTM), conducted for the 20-year period 1998–2017,examined citations, authors, industry sectors, and topics for 550 articles published during...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: AI is not just about computer algorithms and data. It’s about the people who will use AI for what it is: a tool. Over the next two years Dutch bank ING plans to train more than 3,000 of its...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence; in machine learning, computers learn patterns from data. It is a transformative technology for the business world. But currently,...
May 06, 2019
OVERVIEW: Systems with a general intelligence similar to, and perhaps even greater than, that of human beings. Kurzweil (1999) contrasted “narrow AI” with “strong AI,” using the former to refer to...
April 30, 2019
Industrial robots have been widely used for decades in the industrial setting. In the past 30 years, robots have found uses outside the factory, in the field and on the roads. These robots were...
May 20, 2019
Agile development methods borrowed from the software industry are now being used by a handful of manufacturing firms for the development of physical products. Agile methods, which include time-boxed...
September 01, 2018
The next generation of cities will be smart. Smart cities use digital technology in various ways to improve life in fast-moving, crowded urban settings, deploying intelligent sensors, analytical...
October 25, 2019
The new product process by which firms drive new product projects from inception through to commercialization, and the methods, practices and tactics embedded within that process, are the focus of...
Monday April 29, 2019 – Thursday May 02, 2019
IRI’s 2019 Annual Conference explores what companies, large and small, must do to adapt to this new reality, and how to make these transitions in either product offerings or strategy. The conference...