May 07, 2012
Technology Scouting IRI, in partnership with Lux Research, will identify and address information and training needs to help companies engage in more effective technology scouting and open innovation...
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IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.
Thursday October 05, 2017 – Friday October 06, 2017
Keynote on The Future and Impact of AI on R&D features panelists from IBM Watson Research, Pepsico, John Deere, and more.
How do you organize R&D? The CTO from Procter & Gamble, Bruce Brown, gave an excellent presentation on "Why Innovation Matters: Mastering a Reliable, Repeatable Process" as the opening...
March 07, 2017
Where do you live? By this, I mean where do you spend your time? I realized recently that many of the people who coexist with me in my physical world actually live in different places. I spend much...
November 01, 2010
R&D—indeed business—is in a time of great transition. The power of information technology and high-speed communications, globalization (including globalization of R&D), and a faster pace of...
November 01, 2010
R&D—indeed business—is in a time of great transition. The power of information technology and high-speed communications, globalization (including globalization of R&D), and a faster pace of...
July 01, 2009
The world has high hopes for research/technology leaders. You are expected to jump-start the global economy with innovations in areas such as green technology, biotechnology, stem cell cures,...
November 01, 2006
Remember when the management gurus told you your job was to build teamwork? Now the in-word is collaboration, because innovation of all kinds requires high levels of interactivity, not only within...
November 03, 2016
In consultation with the IRI membership, IRI's Knowledge Leadership Team selected the theme of strategic challenges in R&D talent management with individual projects tackling the themes listed...
A metric related to Management Support that provides an anchored scale evaluation of the degree to which management champions step forward to provide special support to individual projects or project teams.
September 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: A key to effective and efficient R&D is the ability to commercialize new products quickly and effectively while leveraging the advantages of global outsourcing. The growing role of...
September 01, 2011
A topic that is much discussed during the coffee breaks at conferences, but not often given attention as a serious subject of study, is resistance to innovation in large corporations. In private...
Recommendations for screening innovation ideas.
October 15, 2014
Opening Knowledge Boundaries Transforms Organizational Identity How to Turn Problem Solvers into Solution Seekers by Dismantling Boundaries at Work Denver, CO (October 15, 2014 )—Despite the growing...
October 15, 2014
Managing Remotely ROR Stage: finalizing research approach, gathering and analyzing data This ROR is examining current knowledge and practices centered on the management and sponsorship of virtual...
May 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: In the short term, in a developing country like India, the GDP growth rate is dependent more on innovation capacity than on scientific strength. But if a high growth rate is to be sustained...