July 02, 2019
May 2016 2016 Annual Meeting - Grab The Future: Leveraging Technology Trends Finance Strategy & Portfolio Analysis Network Spring Meeting June 2016 Ohio Regional Meeting Shaping Innovation...
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November 06, 2019
IRI is excited to introduce the new managing editor for Research-Technology Management, Tammy McCausland, who began her position at the beginning of October. The outgoing managing editor, MaryAnne...
Who manages your IP? How is the leadership role defined for your IP management function? What are the distinct job responsibilities for this role? How does this role fit within your organization – is...
Monday October 02, 2017 – Thursday October 05, 2017
Powered largely by content developed within IRI, the Summit is an in-depth exploration of various working group findings and special reports on IRI's year-long initiative on "Stragegic Challenges in R&D Talent Management."
How do you handle the transfer of projects from Research to Development Bucket? We would like to know how different companies handle the many roadblocks and naysayers when it comes to transfer of...
Completed October 2017 Deliverables Today's Innovation Leaders (RTM article) 2017 Member Summit Final Report Out Project Charter Statement of Opportunity ‘R&D’ and ‘innovation’ are often used...
November 01, 2017
My dad is a self-taught engineer. He worked on whatever was broken in our household. We seemed to always have one car or another in the process of being worked on; I was the guy grabbing the wrenches...
March 01, 2012
Innovation culture is a poorly understood aspect of innovation management. What enables some companies to drive breakthrough innovation consistently while others languish despite heroic efforts?...
What tools do you use to make scientists better project managers? We are interested in learning what tools other organizations use to make their scientists better project managers. We would prefer to...
November 01, 2017
Incumbent firms face steep challenges in dealing with technological change and associated innovation streams. The firm’s senior leadership team, and especially R&D leadership, plays a central...
March 07, 2017
Kaigham Gabriel has managed successful breakthrough innovation at DARPA, Motorola, Google, and Draper. He has derived from this experience a set of practices and tools that significantly increase the...
January 07, 2016
Energizer’s Virginia Brandt talks about the kind of value she gains personally and professionally from her membership and participation at IRI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Fa0ZPu22h4
RTM - Mastering the Acquirer’s Innovation Dilemma: Knowledge Sourcing through Corporate Acquisitions
July 01, 2006
This book aims at increasing the understanding of corporate acquisitions from a technology-based perspective and at proposing applicable concepts for practice which support managers in increasing...
October 14, 2014
Keynote Explores Innovative Tools Developed to Assist in Vision-Building Denver, CO (October 14, 2014 )—Even in healthy work cultures, change is often necessary to sustain innovation. The problem is...
October 14, 2014
How Company Vision Leads Cultural Transformation Keynote Explores Innovative Tools Developed to Assist in Vision-Building Denver, CO (October 14, 2014 )—Even in healthy work cultures, change is often...
October 05, 2016
As many college students discover upon graduation, their field of study may not become their profession. Stephanie Orellana , VP of Service Delivery and Director of Technology Insights Solutions at...