November 08, 2011
Using Strategic Foresight Methods to Influence Your Breakthrough Innovation Agenda Dr. Ted Farrington, Senior Consultant, AndSpace ConsultingPepsiCo R&D conducted an 18 month pilot program that...
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Monday April 29, 2019 8:00am – 5:00pm
This practical one-day workshop is designed for professionals new to R&D, high potential employees with the capacity to become managers within a few years and persons interested in learning...
Do you offer rewards for publishing? Organizations significantly benefit from peer reviewed publications by scientists. We are interested to learn if there are guidelines in R&D organizations to...
May 10, 2012
Industry award honors life-long commitment to innovation Indian Wells, CA, May 10, 2012 – The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) last evening bestowed its illustrious Medal upon Dr. F. Emil Jacobs,...
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July 01, 2019
If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough. —Mario Andretti On February 17, a 21-car pileup interrupted the final laps of the Daytona 500. A mega-wreck like this one is known in...
Save the date for our 2020 Networks Conferences: March 14-16, 2020 - New Orleans, LA September 15-17, 2020 - Milwaukee, Wi IRI’s Networks bring practitioners together to explore member-chosen topics...
July 01, 2017
Leadership is an ongoing preoccupation for the innovation community. Every company wants to be a market leader, and many rely on innovation to provide that leadership. At the national level,...
The research & development activities of our company support a very mature chemical process industry. One support group focuses on developing conceptual process designs to help researchers...
September 01, 2007
Mr. Darcy is the perfect dog: a two-year-old male Black Lab with boundless happy energy. He camps out by the glass kitchen door, and when a squirrel walks by outside, he snaps to attention and barks...
May 11, 2017
R&D is leveraging its boundary spanner role in both knowledge and technology by co-developing and innovating with new partners, suppliers, and customers. The Annual Meeting explores how...
March 01, 2019
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the problem, and only five minutes finding the solution. —Albert Einstein (attributed) I worked in the mailing...
How do you handle admin tasks? Who in your organization receives assistant support and what tasks are handled by the assistants? What technological tools do you use to handle administrative tasks,...
May 13, 2013
IRI President Ed Bernstein explains why IRI exists and how its existence fills a hole in management research that many leaders and academics today recognize as crucial to filling. http://iriwebblog...
March 01, 2011
It is the distinct role of senior management to manage the risk of innovation—to decide when to make the big bets and how to make the little bets that create options for the future. Nevertheless, it...
What Metrics Do You Use for Open Innovation? How does your organization specify Open Innovation metrics and measure key performance indicators? Do you relate the OI Metric as percentage of net sales...