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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.


Community Forum - How do you account for R&D spend?
November 30, 2018
One of the most commonly reported innovation metrics is R&D spending as a percent of sales. However, it’s not always clear what expenses are counted towards that total. Your participation in this...
  • Community Forum
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Metrics/Finance
Community Forum - Vitality Index
August 16, 2017
What is Your Vitality Index? Vitality Index (new product revenues as a percent of total revenues) is a common metric used to show the innovation effectiveness of an R&D organization. Two IRI...
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  • Finance
  • Increase Return on Investment
  • Metrics/Finance
Community Forum - How are new product sales calculated?
March 09, 2018
Companies often use new product sales (sometimes referred to as new product vitality) as a measure of R&D effectiveness. This metric is often reported as the ratio of new product sales (sales...
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  • Commercialization/Marketing
  • Design
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  • Metrics/Finance
  • New Product Development
TVP - Metric 2 Financial Return
1. Metric Definition A group of measures of the financial return of R&D or the innovation process, including the New Sales Ratio (the percent of current sales originating from new products), Cost...
  • Research
  • Technology Value Program
TVP - Metric 29 Sales Protected by Proprietary Position
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition The value of sales of products protected by patents owned by the company, or the percentage of the...
  • Research
  • Technology Value Program
Community Forum - Safety Metrics
What are your leading safety metrics? We are the process of taking a critical look at our leading safety metrics (predictive injury metrics) and have narrowed down the list with strongest correlation...
  • Community Forum
  • Health, Safety, Environment
  • Organization
TVP - Metric 3 Projected Value of the R&D Pipeline
The calculated sum of future value expected to be realized from current R&D projects.
  • Research
  • Technology Value Program
Community Forum - Innovation Index
Do you use an Innovation Index? At John Deere, we are considering developing an “Innovation Index”, an indicator that measures the health and performance of our innovation efforts. We recognize that...
  • Community Forum
  • New Product Development
Community Forum - For every dollar of R&D spend, how many dollars does your company expect to return?
October 09, 2019
Companies make choices between investments in R&D, productivity, tech service and the plant, or choices between different types of R&D. To make these choices they balance the risk, return,...
  • Community Forum
  • Research
  • Increase Return on Investment
Community Forum
The Forum is designed to increase member networking opportunities and help members quickly find solutions that can be implemented in their organizations.
Community Forum - Defining Commercial Products
When is a new product considered 'commercial'? How do people decide when a new product is "commercial"? I am looking for a short definition that the project team can use to guide their decision. -...
  • Community Forum
  • New Product Development
Weekly Member Update - Monday, December 28, 2020
December 28, 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...
New Innovation Metrics to Drive Your B2B Growth
Wednesday January 06, 2021 11:00am
Abstract: A popular innovation metric today is the Vitality Index: % of sales from new products. But it’s a lagging indicator. Changes you make to your front-end of innovation could take years to...
Community Forum - What program management tools do you use?
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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  • Tools and Techniques
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Weekly Member Update - Monday, December 14, 2020
December 14, 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...
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TVP - Metric 27 Number and Quality of Patents
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition A family of related measures of patent value, including the percent of patents that are useful, their...
  • Research

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