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...
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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...
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,...
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 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...
Initiated: Spring 2020 Expected completion: Fall 2021 Kick off webinar Quick pitch To learn more, contact Lee Green. Value Proposition A multi-sided digital platform creates value by facilitating...
August 31, 2020
Anti-covid-19 medicines are being approved too easily What do a malaria drug, a Russian vaccine and the blood plasma of people who have recovered from covid-19 have in common? All have been approved...
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...
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 03, 2017
Christian Crews and Ted Farrington discuss the role a comprehensive foresight process for R&D can play in improving performance and steering the organization through a turbulent marketplace. Read...
May 01, 2018
China Races to Automate While Learning to Innovate China’s seemingly endless supply of cheap labor made it the factory for the world in past decades. Today, as the country seeks to remake itself,...
Knowledge management best practices.
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...
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,...
March 22, 2017
United Technologies Corporation (UTC), based in Farmington, Connecticut, provides high-technology systems and services to the building and aerospace industries. The presentation will discuss UTC’s...
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...