May 01, 2020
Online-based retailers have made competing in the physical retail industry increasingly challenging. Building strong experiences to differentiate from the online-based players is key to survival...
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Opening Keynote: Driving Motorola Solutions’ Digital Transformation with Innovation through Data Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office Paul Steinberg, Senior...
November 01, 2014
Why didn't Sony invent the iPod? The Japanese company had all of the technical elements needed, plus access to a powerful music list through its Sony Music label and every bit of the design cachet...
May 14, 2018
Artificial intelligence, or AI—computers that can analyze data, make predictions, and draw conclusions in ways only humans could a few years ago—may be the most important technological development...
Monday March 07, 2016 – Wednesday March 09, 2016
Six networks meet for two days of interactive discussions. Highlights include Research working sessions and guest speaker, John Bacon, on lean startup principles.
How do you report technical information? We would like to improve upon our existing methods of reporting technical information. To help with this aim, we would like to know current thinking and best...
October 15, 2014
Effective Implementation of R&D Strategy by Using a Change Management Lens Michael (Mike) Blackburn, MS, ThD, Portfolio/Program Leader, Cargill Global Research Management Kimberly Miller, Food R...
May 08, 2012
Human Energy: How Chevron Differentiates Performance Through Technology John McDonald, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Chevron Technology plays a pivotal role in providing growing...
May 01, 2013
We generally think of business success or failure in human terms: management is brilliant or flawed, rises to opportunities or overlooks them, takes risks or plays it safe. The sky’s the limit, and if...
March 06, 2018
This session provides a structured approach to assessing and improving the probability of success of your strategy. We will use a real example of building an implementable “informatics” strategy...
Monday May 23, 2016 – Thursday May 26, 2016
Join 350+ of your industry colleagues to explore recent science and technology trends and discuss case studies of how companies have turned trends into new growth areas.
January 01, 2015
R&D carried out by Oshkosh Corporation, a company that designs and builds specialty trucks and truck bodies, provides more bang for the buck than that performed by Google, Netflix, and other...
1991 - 1999 Deliverables Description Objective: Establish a database on industrial R&D inputs and outputs In cooperation with CIMS and with financial support from NSF, an R&D Database...
May 30, 2011
The Big Win-Win: Putting Prizes to Work for Your Organization Erika Wagner, PhD, Senior Director, Exploration Prize Development, X PRIZE Foundation From the early European Longitude Prizes to modern...
March 01, 2020
Clay Christensen (1952–2020) was a giant in the field of innovation. The Innovator’s Dilemma remains one of the best books on innovation that I have ever read. It is both theoretically rigorous and...
December 21, 2020
Looking forward to next year? Who isn’t! The guiding principle for IRI in 2021, we will be operating as a virtual organization. We will deliver exceptional value, including networking, research, and...