How do you transition innovations from labs to business groups? How do IRI member companies transition innovations from research labs into the business organizations for commercialization? Do...
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October 18, 2012
INDIANAPOLIS — Jane Edison Stevenson, vice chairman, Board and CEO Services, Korn/Ferry International, and Bilal Kaafarani, chief innovation officer & group president of R&D, Yildiz Holding,...
January 01, 2008
Managers in R&D need to take a more active role in helping their corporations to find new market applications and develop business plans for realizing value from those applications. Often it is...
May 01, 2004
Translation of strategy into new product initiatives is the focus of this second of three articles reporting the results of the most recent American Productivity and Quality Center study on...
Do you have recommendations for designing an 'innovation room'? Don Eadie, Vice President, Technology, Kelsan Technologies Corp. We are moving into a new facility that will incorporate various...
November 20, 2013
Institutionalizing Innovation Competency ROR Stage: gathering & analyzing data This ROR is investigating how firms develop innovation workforce excellence and career paths for innovation experts...
A set of measures of both the cost efficiency and cost effectiveness of the operation of R&D processes within the company, for example, average cost per successful project, spending as percent of projected project cost, percentage of costs devoted to successful projects, and others.
September 01, 2008
Portfolio planning involves five basic tasks: identifying current as well as future gaps in the portfolio relative to the firm's overall business strategy, striking a balance between strengthening...
"IRI offers the most productive and insightful networking experience in the area of technology and innovation management." Terry J Fetterhoff Senior Director, Technology Management Hoffman-La Roche,...
Seeking recommendations to perform an assessment of a prototype fabrication enterprise I am seeking your assistance to identify potential resources who could be employed to perform an independent...
October 19, 2015
Innovating Through Partnerships: Illinois Corporate Start-Up Challenge Mark Matlock, Senior Vice President, Food Research, Archer Daniels Midland Mark Harris, President & CEO, Illinois Science...
May 11, 2017
"IRI has been helping companies learn about better ways to manage R&D for decades," said Chesbrough. "My own open innovation research has benefited greatly from IRI, and from close observation of several of its member companies."
October 15, 2008
Seven Authors Explored Best Practices in Integrating Strategic Planning Throughout and Across Autonomous Business Units DENVER, Colo. - (October 15, 2008) - The Industrial Research Institute (IRI)...
What percentage of projects in a typical innovation portfolio are successfully commercialized? Has anything been published recently that benchmarks the percentage of innovation portfolio projects...
Technology Value Program 19-5 New Product Study - Portfolio Management 19-1 Balancing Risk in the R&D Portfolio 18-3 Innovation Governance 18-2 Innovation Dashboard Metrics 16-5 Recruiting and...
How to establish a managerial career ladder and a technical career ladder.