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...
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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.
July 01, 2010
You are leading a project urgently needed by your organization. How can you best motivate your team to meet a demanding schedule? Should you offer bonuses if the team meets a deadline? Not according...
July 01, 2010
You are leading a project urgently needed by your organization. How can you best motivate your team to meet a demanding schedule? Should you offer bonuses if the team meets a deadline? Not according...
May 01, 2015
Breakthrough innovation in established companies is particularly difficult, in part because breakthrough innovation requires a very different culture to sustain it than does incremental innovation...
September 01, 2009
The multiple and often contradictory team dynamics that arise in diverse teams present organizations with major challenges. For example, while a team’s functional diversity can help produce...
February 28, 2011
Objective: Understand what companies are doing to consistently find new places to play and how to win through breakthrough innovation. Team: Jim Ramsey, Carl Loweth, Ryan Dirkx, Pam Henderson, Justin...
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,...
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 23, 2013
IRI Diamond Jubilee Creating & Implementing Breakthrough Technologies Dr. Robert S. Langer, David H. Koch Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Several different case studies...
Managing technology and innovation is complex, with many parts that a technology management executive needs to be considering, shaping, and positioning. And, consequently, an IRI event is more than...
January 01, 2008
Manufacturing firms whose project teams acquire departmental intelligence—the ability to understand and take others’ departmental perspectives—are more successful at product improvement. This is the...
April 06, 2020
Jump to: Global Innovation News | IRI's Virtual Annual Conference | 2020 PILOT Projects | USG's Digital Transformation | Learn and Share | Executive Education Workshops this June | Upcoming Events...
October 05, 2017
What happens when your Front End Innovation market and technology scouts encounter an external product, technology, IP, and/or supplier suitable for growth in your core adjacency platforms? How does...
May 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: The significant role of technology in strategic business activities and new-product development has driven companies to create a Chief Technology Officer (CTO) position to lead and direct...
March 01, 2014
I have spent the majority of my career outside the United States, in a mix of technology-oriented and business-related roles. Like many people in DuPont, I started in the company as a scientist,...
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...