November 01, 2012
OVERVIEW : Driving innovation—particularly disruptive innovation—demands that companies possess a deep understanding of the nonobvious problems that will need to be solved in the future. Gaining this...
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March 01, 2007
If you’re like most managers, you’ve had some kind of training aimed at making you a more effective leader. And there are many, many kinds. When I Googled “leadership training,” I found over 11⁄...
July 01, 1994
Too many myths prevail about how to manage new product projects. This article probes what truly separates winners from losers in the new product game. It reports the results of a study of 103 new...
Friday July 03, 2020
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4“Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes.”
––Karl Marx
There is one prediction among many that rings...
November 18, 2013
IRI Hosts Leading Minds in Innovation at Future Summit in San Jose, CA ARLINGTON, VA (November 18, 2013) – The Industrial Research Institute (IRI), an association that brings together companies and...
Can you measure how the rest of the company feels about open innovation? As a company’s OI activities progress from entirely informal to having an established program and/or function to having an OI...
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 20, 2017
Open innovation emerged as a concept about 14 years ago. At its inception, the focus was primarily upon individual companies collaborating with partners in interesting ways. There was the example of...
May 11, 2020
First, a message from Ed: Our 2020 VIRTUAL Annual Conference starts tomorrow! Join over 1100 of your peers in the field of Innovation to hear Alexa Dembek, DuPont's Chief Technology &...
October 16, 2020
CIOs Feel Squeezed Between the Need to Accelerate Digital Transformation Software intelligence company Dynatrace, announced the findings of an independent global survey of 700 CIOs revealing IT...
2012 - Fall 2014 This ROR group seeks to identify how to increase effectiveness of R&D by delighting customers. Participants explore: What is customer delight, really? How do different activities...
October 15, 2014
The Hollywood Model: Talent Management Implications Richard Antcliff, PhD, Director, OSACB, NASA Langley Research Center What if…. • all of your researchers and engineers were independent of any...
January 01, 2011
Dealing with the Chinese Dragon Second of a two-part series After more than two decades providing cheap labor to fuel the world’s manufacturing processes, the Chinese government has begun a campaign...
September 17, 2017
Blockchain, digital twins, digital familiars, digital business platforms, digital currencies—all complex, arcane, and even magical-seeming inventions—are being conceived by a counterculture of...
November 01, 2019
My journey to science started when I was six years old and my brother was born with Down’s syndrome. At that time no one—physicians or parents—could even begin to explain what happened when a baby...
November 01, 2018
The theme of IRI’s 2018 Annual Conference, held in May in Atlanta, was Breaking Boundaries. Presentations and conversations focused on new approaches to innovation, new ways of innovating, and new...