July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Chantrelle Nielsen tells the story of how her startup pioneered a new market for a dataset that had never been use before – signals produced as a byproduct of knowledge worker...
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March 01, 2012
The Use of Strategic Foresight Methods for Ideation and Portfolio Management OVERVIEW: Previous investigations of organizations adding breakthrough innovation capacity to already strong incremental...
May 01, 2005
A large part of your job as a research/technology manager is understanding people, not just evaluating how well they have performed. Evaluation is the easy part; much harder is predicting how people...
April 01, 2011
Join Ivy Eisenberg, manager of technology planning and open innovation, Pitney Bowes, to discuss “Lead-User Research for Breakthrough Innovation,” published in the January-February 2011 issue of...
August 02, 2017
See how MITRE's Marcie Zaharee began her career and how it developed throughout her life. Read the official recap from IRI's 2017 CTO Forum. And, make sure to check out the details regarding the 2017...
May 22, 2014
New Members to the Board of Directors also named at Annual Meeting Boston, MA (May 22, 2014) - Dr. Daniel A. Abramowicz, Executive Vice President, Technology and Regulatory Affairs, Crown Holdings,...
Completed October 2017 IRI's 2017 Strategic Research Platform: Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management Following on from the IRI2038 Futures Study and the Digitalization and R&D...
How do you spot the BIG opportunities? What operating rhythm, processes, & metrics do you employ to preferentially identify, generate, AND screen BIG new opportunities in the early stages of the...
How do you list inventors' names on patent appliations? It is a long standing practice in the academic community to list authors of scholarly works in the order of their relative contributions. This...
May 24, 2011
Identifying Breakthrough Opportunities Explore how top innovation companies are driving breakthrough (versus sustaining) innovation now. How are they responding to the economy? Have they accelerated...
What criteria do you use for research fellows? Our leadership team would like to be able to recognize technical leadership and impact at a higher level (e.g. Similar level as a Director) through...
Monday May 08, 2017 – Thursday May 11, 2017
"R&D Beyond Four Walls" explores how organizations are pushing beyond the traditional value chain to adopt a more dynamic and integrated collaboration culture across the business enterprise.
November 01, 2017
Viv Goldstein is Global Director of Innovation Acceleration at GE, an organization that is transforming itself to be successful in a world of rapid change, a world being revolutionized by the...
Do you have recommendations for designing an 'innovation room'? Don Eadie, Vice President, Technology, Kelsan Technologies Corp. We are moving into a new facility that will incorporate various...
May 2012 - November 2013 As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures initiative designed to answer the following two questions: How will...
Do you have a career ladder for administrative assistants? We are one of the largest consumer products companies with dual ladders for our technical professionals. Our administrative assistants are...