How is your R&D investment split between projects focused on Growth, Competitiveness, and Sustaining? Do you track this as part of your R&D Portfolio analysis? If so, and you are comfortable...
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As part of IRI’s 75th Anniversary Celebration (2013) IRI commissioned the IRI2038 project, a futures study initiative. The project resulted in 4 plausible, yet provocative scenarios about the future...
Do you have a standardized way of naming projects? We would like to have a standardized way to name projects that we are working on in R&D. Today, a project can begin with a name that is given...
March 09, 2018
Companies often use new product sales (sometimes referred to as new product vitality) as a measure of R&D effectiveness. This metric is often reported as the ratio of new product sales (sales...
(Identify the most successful practices of technology-intensive firms and provide recommendations for adoption) A Holland-Award-winning paper was published on this topic in RTM during 1996. The paper...
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...
October 14, 2014
Weak Ties and Innovation ROR Stage: Gathering and analyzing data Weak ties refer to people we don't see frequently, those that we know only through referrals from others, or those that we share some...
October 13, 2017
For years, organizations have used cross-functional virtual communities to help employees share knowledge, connect with experts, and collaborate to solve business problems. However, as technology and...
Tuesday September 27, 2016 4:00pm – 7:00pm
IRI’s 2016 Research Triangle Park Regional Meeting will focus on “Commercializing New Technology to Impact the Human Condition." The event, hosted by RTI International, will allow R&D...
Does your organization do flex time? Has anyone implemented flex time in an R&D environment? What has worked best for your organization? - Deb Dihel, Director of R&D, ConAgra Foods Community...
The percent of projects in the total portfolio going through a defined project management system with defined milestones.
Knowledge management best practices.
November 20, 2013
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Industrial Research Institute Announces Tech Tournament Winner Alcatel-Lucent wins IRI’s Tech Tournament, a competition to determine the most significant innovation...
January 01, 2013
Following several years of wide investment swings due to a drastically changing economic landscape, the Industrial Research Institute’s (IRI) 2012 survey results suggest that R&D leaders are...
The current and annual expenditure for R&D staff and capital compared to the best competitor and/or the industry average.
November 01, 2015
The theme of this year’s Annual Meeting of the Industrial Research Institute, held in April in Seattle, was Extreme Customer Intimacy. Most of the presentations focused on the technology driving new...