What percentage of projects in a typical innovation portfolio are successfully commercialized? Has anything been published recently that benchmarks the percentage of innovation portfolio projects...
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July 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Idea contests can play an important role in fostering creativity and innovation among employees. We report the results of an evaluation of the Eureka idea contest at Deltares, a Dutch...
How do you handle IP when collaborating with universities? How do organizations work through the complexities of IP ownership when collaborating with universities in an open innovation environment?...
By signing your partnership contract, you agree to abide by all regulations set by IRI, including not using the attendee list for solicitation purposes, with the exception of what is allowed per...
Does your organization offer formal 'Innovation Time'? Does your organization have a formal 'Innovation Time' (10% - 15% of researcher’s time focused on topics individuals have passion to drive)...
Are you listening to your supply chain, or just your customers? Has anyone had success in driving innovation by bypassing your immediate (direct) customers and significantly impacting end-users or...
June 29, 2017
As we enter an era of global innovation, what role will China play? Will it match the European Union, Japan and he United States in R&D intensity and, more importantly, have the entrepreneurial...
Can you measure how the rest of the company feels about open innovation? As a company’s OI activities progress from entirely informal to having an established program and/or function to having an OI...
Opening Keynote: Driving Motorola Solutions’ Digital Transformation with Innovation through Data Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office Paul Steinberg, Senior...
May 18, 2020
Welcome to Week 2 of IRI's VIRTUAL 2020 Annual Conference Campbell Soup’s Vice President of R&D, Craig Slavtcheff, will be kicking off the second week with how Campbell Soup has hardwired #Agile...
What should IRI tell the President about the barriers to advanced manufacturing? With a focus on new approaches and options that could be added to the President's platform, what might the government...
January 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Many firms rely on a single new-product development process for all projects. But designing new products for different business contexts requires that a firm deploy different new-product...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Description The state of creativity and innovation within an organization measured via an interval rating scale...
September 28, 2020
Don't miss these exciting speakers at the Virtual Digital Futures 2020 Conference! and more! i101 Workshop: Organizational Issues in Managing Innovation : 4 spots left! Explore the challenges of...
January 01, 2005
The study of innovation management in established companies has led to the enunciation of process tools that, if not widely used, are well known and documented. These tools are necessary but not...
August 21, 2019
Boeing's Business of Innovation Conference in partnership with IRI Mon., Oct. 28 12:30-4:30 PM i201 Bootcamp Workshop 5-6 PM Reception Tue., Oct. 29 8-8:30 AM Breakfast 8:30-8:35 AM Kick Off Jim...