July 01, 2015
Managers tend to pick a strategy that is least likely to fail rather than picking a strategy that is most efficient. The pain of looking bad is worse than the gain of making the best move.” This...
Learning Center
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, 2015
Delivering service innovation that delights customers is a difficult task. For product-focused companies, even imagining a potential service innovation is difficult. And what is perhaps most...
March 01, 2014
An increasing number of manufacturing firms have made the transition from a product-oriented business model to one led by advanced services, a process Tim Baines calls “servitization”. In this...
July 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: The term “open innovation” was introduced in my 2003 book, which outlined a new model for industrial in-novation. Since that time, the concept has been adopted by hundreds of academic...
May 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Selecting the right technology for a given application is critical to the future of any enterprise. Companies invest billions of dollars each year in new technologies intended to provide...
January 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Despite the increasing use of electronically mediated methods for team communications, research continues to underline the importance of face-to-face (F2F) communication for the successful...
July 01, 2019
If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. —Mario Andretti On February 17, a 21-car pileup interrupted the final laps of the Daytona 500. A mega-wreck like this one is known in...
May 01, 2010
How to achieve a sustained competitive advantage that ensures long-term survival is a major concern for managers everywhere, but even more so for those in smaller firms, which may have more...
September 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Protecting intellectual property is crucial for R&D managers. The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which overhauled the US patent system in order to reduce litigation and bring US...
March 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: Is it necessary or even possible to apply the management technology of open innovation to all projects in the same way? An analysis of the practices used in different product development...
July 01, 2019
In 2018, the UN panel on climate change updated its estimate for how quickly the world needs to move to reduce the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere, from the 80 percent reduction by 2050 pledged in...
September 09, 2019
Logged in users click here for credential verification (only needed once per logged in session) Perspectives Europe's Drive to Tame Data Wild West John Blau Destination Moon, Half Century after...
January 01, 2010
Firms moving to a model in which they complement their internal innovation efforts with innovation from external sources need to manage their intellectual property carefully. This requires careful...
September 01, 2010
In 10 Rules for Strategic Innovators, Vijay Govindarajan and co-author Chris Trimble discuss what it takes to innovate inside established companies. He emphasizes three concepts: forgetting lessons...
November 01, 2010
OVERVIEW: The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is revolutionizing the passenger travel experience with radical innovations in the airplane interior. These innovations are the direct result of an unprecedented...
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: Even large firms cannot mobilize all the ideas, technology, business expertise, and market channels they need to deliver breakthrough products. A new model is rapidly emerging in which...