November 01, 2017
Perhaps the biggest challenge that faces an established company seeking to grow in new directions is evolving a culture that permits innovation to flourish. I have previously defined a culture of...
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April 29, 2015
Changes in Customer Engagement Steven Moskowitz, New Product & Portfolio Management, Entegris Due to changes in the semiconductor business, both from technical cost & complexity and business...
May 01, 2017
Organizational and corporate culture clearly play a role in innovation effectiveness, but little work has been done to explore the exact nature of that relationship. To address that gap, the IRI...
January 20, 2017
This issue begins RTM’s 60th continuous year of publication. Originally called Research Management, it was founded as a journal by and for practitioners of research and development in order to share...
November 01, 2015
Barriers to innovation are declining. It is easier today for an innovator to get into business than it has been at any time in history. There are many reasons for this, but most are driven by some...
November 18, 2011
Bob Rosenfeld and Idea Connection Systems is offering IRI Membership the opportunity to take the innovation assessment ISPI® (Innovation Strengths Preference Indicator®) at no cost (normally $75)...
June 03, 2016
Finding opportunities for growth is essential but it’s also incredibly challenging. Traditional methods of filling the innovation pipeline - from internal brainstorming to segment-by-segment market...
March 01, 2008
A busy 18 months had passed since “Hank Sympson” was brought in to head Research and Development at XYZ. During that time, Hank had created a technical ladder to improve the firm’s use of new...
June 29, 2017
“Tom Evers,” XYZ’s R&D vice president, faced a difficult decision that he needed to make quickly. A serious automobile accident had placed “Bob Bateman,” director of electronics research, on...
May 02, 2016
Once upon a time, innovation meant technological innovation--new products or features that offered quantifiable advantages over older solutions. In the decades after World War II, when the idea of...
2013 - 2015 Deliverables Report Out - Member Summit 2015 RTM Article Description This ROR examined how culture within an organization can impact the level of innovation coming from it. The ROR team...
March 01, 2013
OVERVIEW: In the emerging service economy, many traditional product manufacturing companies are seeking innovative ways to do business, focusing on product-service combinations. Development of these...
October 25, 2018
This talk gives an overview of trends in artificial intelligence and how they will affect business and society in the coming years. The last decade has seen remarkable gains in machine learning and...
Wednesday February 22, 2017 – Friday February 24, 2017
IRI and NC State's Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) partner to bring you the most cutting edge research in R&D management.
October 15, 2014
The Hollywood Model: Talent Management Implications Richard Antcliff, PhD, Director, OSACB, NASA Langley Research Center What if…. • all of your researchers and engineers were independent of any...
May 24, 2016
Orlando, FL (May 25, 2016) —Can an organization be trained to deliver innovation with discipline? In his keynote remarks this morning, Kaigham “Ken” Gabriel, President & CEO of Draper, explained...