How is your technical support structured? We are interested in how other organisations structure their R&D technical support function. Do you have a dedicated support team for each of your...
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What major trends do you see in R&D research in the next 5 years? Help our Research-on-Research group stay ahead of the curve by letting us know what you see on the horizon of R&D research in...
How many projects should R&D people have at a time? what is the "average" number of projects that are being worked on at any one time by the average R&D person? I've heard it said that...
September 01, 2005
It is a truism that setting good and worthy goals is critical to success. In business, people speak of setting SMART goals to help assure success (1). The acronym stands for Specific, Measurable,...
August 02, 2017
Read the write-up from the discussion held at the 2017 CTO Forum among 22 senior R&D leaders who came together to explore the topic of discontinuous innovation and innovation culture. 2017 CTO...
November 20, 2013
Innovation Culture ROR Stage: project forming This ROR will examine how culture within an organization can impact the level of innovation coming from it. The ROR team hypothesizes that there is not...
November 01, 2008
The most innovative technology project teams are not traditional hierarchies with an autocratic leader and docile followers. Rather, they are more like heterarchies where leadership shifts according...
As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures study initiative. The project resulted in 4 plausible, yet provocative scenarios about the future...
September 01, 2018
Spend and they will come. Scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and research ministers are lining up to grab a chunk of the €100 billion ($118 billion) the European Commission has proposed to spend...
May 01, 2007
Disruptive innovations increasingly originate in private sector emerging growth firms—or gazelles, as they are commonly called. Unfortunately, managers of large corporations find it difficult to...
Do you have a standardized way of naming projects? We would like to have a standardized way to name projects that we are working on in R&D. Today, a project can begin with a name that is given...
New hire rotational programs in R&D.
Monday March 11, 2019 8:00am – Wednesday March 13, 2019 1:00pm
2019 Spring Networks Conference March 11-13, 2019 Nashville, TN Loews Vanderbilt Hotel ($239/night) - Book your stay! Join fellow innovators from all industries and functions of R&D to explore...
July 12, 2018
Plenary The world we’re about to step into will be unlike anything that has been seen before. This speed of change, as much as the specific changes it brings, will transform the ways we work, live...
Are virtual teams effective? Are non-virtual teams more effective than virtual teams? Is there any good research based literature on the topic? - VP Technology, Advanced Materials Supplier Community...
Monday October 02, 2017 8:30am – 5:00pm
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