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...
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October 17, 2016
Motorola Solutions is transforming from providing communications equipment to delivering next-generation software and services. As the 88-year-old company develops innovative solutions for customers...
July 06, 2020
INNOVATION NEWS HEADER.png How Stitch Fix used AI to personalize its online shopping experience Online retailers have long lured customers with the ability to browse vast selections of merchandise...
September 01, 2008
Gridley! Gridley! Get in here; we’re in crisis mode! We need someone to develop relationships with Chinese universities pronto. Our competitors are ahead of us and if we don’t move fast, all the good...
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...
October 09, 2019
Can you recommend any suppliers of Project & Portfolio Management (PPM) systems, particularly those that are configurable enough to suit the range of different types of project in an R&D...
Do you have a career ladder for administrative assistants? We are one of the largest consumer products companies with dual ladders for our technical professionals. Our administrative assistants are...
November 16, 2020
2021 Annual Conference Call for Presentations The Innovation Research Interchange is accepting proposals for the 2021 Virtual Annual Conference, Innovation for the Next Normal. The program will draw...
November 23, 2020
2021 Annual Conference Call for Presentations The Innovation Research Interchange is accepting proposals for the 2021 Virtual Annual Conference, Innovation for the Next Normal. The program will draw...
Deliverables Infographic summarizing results Recruitment and Retention of Early Career Technical Talent - RTM Journal, September - October, 2018 ***to view, log into your IRI account, click here once...
How is your technical support structured? We are interested in how other organisations structure their R&D technical support function. Do you have a dedicated support team for each of your...
August 25, 2017
Arkema has an initiative called the "innovation toolbox" where we are tasked with identifying tools or other ways of working to improve our ability to analyze, collaborate, document and communicate...
October 20, 2015
Bad Dog, No Biscuit: The Challenges of Doing New Things in an Established Organization Valerie Bowe, Engineering Director, Strategy and Innovation, Unisys Corporation Brittney Burchett, Software...
April 01, 2008
The so-called fuzzy front end would seem to be the stage of innovation least suited to the use of information systems and technology, tools usually applied to repeatable processes and those amenable...
April 28, 2015
One step toward enabling large R&D organizations to compete with the speed and agility of start-ups is to provide a means of evaluating new ideas quickly and effectively. In this two hour session...
The percent of projects in the total portfolio going through a defined project management system with defined milestones.