April 17, 2018
Discussion Summary What measures are organizations implementing to recruit and retain top talent? Recruiting from universities Even as an organization’s recruiting focus shifts, it should maintain a...
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Are you listening to your supply chain, or just your customers? Has anyone had success in driving innovation by bypassing your immediate (direct) customers and significantly impacting end-users or...
Fall 2015 - 2017 Completed October 2017 Deliverables Integrating Sustainability into New Product Development - RTM Journal, March - April 2018 Member Summit 2017 Final Report Out Integrating...
May 01, 2017
The economic benefits of reverse innovation are intuitively compelling, but this new innovation strategy presents several challenges to established firms, ranging from fears of product...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition A qualitative evaluation of the degree to which a project team is supported by its management through...
What is the best way to organize a poster session to encourage remote team participation?
September 20, 2017
Proposal Packet Proposal Packet Proposal Form Proposal Form The IRI Program Committee invites you to share your expertise at our annual conference. Content presenters benefit by: Networking with...
May 19, 2016
Media Contact: Michele Taussig 703.647.2588; Taussig@iriweb.org Calendar Item IRI’s 2016 Annual Meeting: Grab the Future—Leveraging Technology Trends May 23 - 26 Hilton Lake Buena Vista Orlando, FL...
November 14, 2019
Author: Jeffrey Phillips Contributors: Mike Blackburn (Cargill), Michael Blades (National Gypsum), Tim Dennison (Sealed Air), RTI Innovation Advisors November, 2019 The purpose of this short white...
How do you transition innovations from labs to business groups? How do IRI member companies transition innovations from research labs into the business organizations for commercialization? Do...
May 26, 2016
New Members to the Board of Directors also named at Annual Meeting Orlando, FL (May 26, 2016) : Dr. John B. Hillenbrand, Jr., Vice President of R&D at Armstrong Flooring was named chairman of the...
January 01, 2006
You lead an R&D organization, either a department, team or project. How do you go about getting the best possible performance from your people? How are you organizing their work? Do you think...
July 05, 2018
Innovation Research Interchange (IRI) recently hosted a gathering of chief technology officers for the purpose of finding solutions to one of the greatest R&D challenges to date: digital...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project: Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management Research Initiative. The roles in innovation and R&D will be explored and the ways in which individuals can move between...
January 2016 - September 2017 This was a joint research effort with APQC . Deliverables Download the full report and case studies. Brown bag webinar: Summary of the findings Research Approach...
March 01, 2012
Imagine this scenario: The group you lead is facing a conflict that threatens to undermine an important project for your company. You thought you had put together a team that was well balanced with...