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...
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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.
What are your leading safety metrics? We are the process of taking a critical look at our leading safety metrics (predictive injury metrics) and have narrowed down the list with strongest correlation...
May 21, 2013
IRI Brings Together International Associations to Launch Historic Partnership WASHINGTON (May 21, 2013) — Leaders from the world’s premier industrial research associations gathered today at the...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Companies need a consistent and systematic way to identify signals of emerging trends that will affect the future of their business. It enables organizations to engage proactively in...
November 01, 2010
At intervals throughout the year, chief technology officers (CTOs) of large research and development departments across industries gather for an open exchange of information and an opportunity to...
November 01, 2010
At intervals throughout the year, chief technology officers (CTOs) of large research and development departments across industries gather for an open exchange of information and an opportunity to...
About the IRI Achievement Award, the IRI Medal, and the Maurice Holland Award.
March 08, 2019
Improving Technical capability for research and engineering employees is a key element in developing talent and driving company growth. We are interested in learning how other companies are investing...
April 30, 2019
This PILOT research on research (ROR) project has taken a deep dive into how companies define, manage (or not), stigmatize (or not), and learn from (or not) failure. They will share the resources...
How do you handle the transfer of projects from Research to Development Bucket? We would like to know how different companies handle the many roadblocks and naysayers when it comes to transfer of...
May 09, 2012
Meeting Tomorrow's Energy Demands F. E. (Emil) Jacobs, Vice President Research and Development, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company For more than 150 years, technological innovation has been...
How do you protect the proprietary business processes you have developed internally? We have recently re-engineered our product development business processes and want our development teams to have...
November 20, 2013
NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2013 Maurice Holland Award Presented San Jose, CA (November 20, 2013) – The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) announced yesterday the winners of its prestigious...
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...
May 26, 2016
New Members to the Board of Directors also named at Annual Meeting Orlando, FL (May 26, 2016) : Dr. John B. Hillenbrand, Jr., Vice President of R&D at Armstrong Flooring was named chairman of the...
March 02, 2018
P&G recently staffed a Diversity & Inclusion role leading a STEM Coalition. The intent of this work is to step change P&G’s internal & external presence supporting STEM engagement /...