March 22, 2017
The continued growth of Asian economies has US-based firms seeking to form new business partnerships in region. Despite being filled with promise, forming quality, sustainable partnerships can be...
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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.
October 05, 2017
Why is innovating today different and require new mindsets for R&D and cross functional teams? Why is the front end of innovation different? Clients – particularly R&D leaders/teams - express...
September 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: A key to effective and efficient R&D is the ability to commercialize new products quickly and effectively while leveraging the advantages of global outsourcing. The growing role of...
Keynote Presenters Opening Keynote: Adaptive Innovation - The Fabric of Effective R&D Keoki Jackson, ScD, CTO, Lockheed Martin Tuesday, May 9 from 8:00 to 9:15 am Dr. Jackson shares his...
A metric related to Management Support that provides an anchored scale evaluation of the degree to which management champions step forward to provide special support to individual projects or project teams.
How do you organize R&D? The CTO from Procter & Gamble, Bruce Brown, gave an excellent presentation on "Why Innovation Matters: Mastering a Reliable, Repeatable Process" as the opening...
July 01, 2017
This paper describes LG Chem Research Park’s process of transforming a large, closed R&D center into a collaborative organization. Experiments with open innovation intermediaries unveiled...
October 15, 2014
Managing Remotely ROR Stage: finalizing research approach, gathering and analyzing data This ROR is examining current knowledge and practices centered on the management and sponsorship of virtual...
April 21, 2014
Ingersoll Rand, a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable and efficient environments, and the Industrial Research Institute (IRI), along with several other IRI member companies, collaborated to develop and publish a Maturity Model for Sustainability in New Product Development.
About the IRI Achievement Award, the IRI Medal, and the Maurice Holland Award.
Monday October 29, 2018 2:00pm – Tuesday October 30, 2018 4:00pm
The topic of both 2018 CTO Forums is Digital Transformation - the progress of digital usage beyond simply supporting and enhancing traditional methods to inherently enabling new types of innovation,...
Wednesday December 09, 2020 1:00pm – 4:00pm
This course is designed to provide an introduction to portfolio management in research and development. In it, the participants will learn about both the strategic and financial valuation of proposed...
September 17, 2017
This study explores the concept of big data and whether, and to what extent, it might affect R&D management in the future. Through extensive discussions to dissect the nature of big data and to...
Recommendations for screening innovation ideas.
February 01, 2021
2021 Virtual Spring Networks Conference Registration Now Open! Join fellow innovation leaders for dynamic discussions and networking! The 2021 Virtual Spring Networks Conference, March 8-11, will...
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...