September 20, 2017
Proposal Packet Proposal Packet Proposal Form Proposal Form The IRI Program Committee invites you to share your expertise at our annual conference. Content presenters benefit by: Networking with...
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Monday April 29, 2019 8:30am – 4:00pm
Wondering what artificial intelligence, autonomous robots, and smart systems will mean for you, your company, your industry, and even society as a whole? Wishing you had a structured way to think...
Keynote Presenters Opening Keynote: Adaptive Innovation - The Fabric of Effective R&D Keoki Jackson, ScD, CTO, Lockheed Martin Tuesday, May 9 from 8:00 to 9:15 am Dr. Jackson shares his...
May 09, 2017
Dr. Jackson shares his perspective on how external collaboration, crowdsourcing, and startup incubation can play a significant role in dramatic future aerospace and defense capabilities. Lockheed...
April 28, 2015
Lean Start-Up in Large Organizations ROR Stage: planning Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that can enhance the stage gate process and is more suitable for developing products...
May 10, 2017
IRI Research Project Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that can enhance the stage gate process and is more suitable for developing products when there is high uncertainty in the...
May 01, 2019
Can Lean StartUp and Waterfall approaches to new product development exist in the same development project, or are they mortal enemies? What can be used together, possibly resulting in a new approach...
May 24, 2016
ROR Stage: gathering and analyzing data Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that can enhance the stage gate process and is more suitable for developing products when there is high...
Monday June 04, 2018 8:00am – 5:00pm
Sign up for optional workshops offered before our Annual Conference on June 4th from 8am-5pm. Lean Project Management Workshop participants focus on the following topics: 1) Why innovation is...
July 02, 2019
May 2016 2016 Annual Meeting - Grab The Future: Leveraging Technology Trends Finance Strategy & Portfolio Analysis Network Spring Meeting June 2016 Ohio Regional Meeting Shaping Innovation...
January 06, 2020
The following is a collection of all reports, presentations, and articles produced by IRI programs in 2019. Make sure you are logged in to view all of the content. If you do not know your IRIweb...
Globalization Transformed--the Next Practices to Revolutionize Global Innovation Corporations, universities, and federal labs alike must take proactive measures to manage their innovation in the...
November 01, 2019
This article is about how digital transformation really happens: how companies go from being traditional, physical, legacy companies to thriving and competing in the digital age. A four-year study,...
May 09, 2017
Breakout Most companies don’t properly understand their target customers in product development – and the results can be catastrophic. Companies who utilize customer insights adapt product...
May 04, 2020
IRI President's message this week: Research-Technology Management Volume 63, Issue 3 has been posted online Stay tuned as more digital innovators in retail cross over into physical space, while brick...
November 01, 2019
“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.” —George Westerman,MIT Sloan Initiative...