How to establish a managerial career ladder and a technical career ladder.
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November 30, 2018
One of the most commonly reported innovation metrics is R&D spending as a percent of sales. However, it’s not always clear what expenses are counted towards that total. Your participation in this...
May 21, 2013
IRI Diamond Jubilee R&D Benchmarking Stage: Gathering and analyzing data The focus of this special R&D Benchmarking project is to explore typical R&D (may be referred to as Technology or...
What Metrics Do You Use for Open Innovation? How does your organization specify Open Innovation metrics and measure key performance indicators? Do you relate the OI Metric as percentage of net sales...
August 16, 2017
What is Your Vitality Index? Vitality Index (new product revenues as a percent of total revenues) is a common metric used to show the innovation effectiveness of an R&D organization. Two IRI...
What titles do you use for senior technical positions? What job titles does your organization use for the senior most technical/R&D ladder positions? - Cecil Chappelow, Vice President, Innovation...
August 16, 2017
How do you align your technical ladder? Our organization is in the process of implementing a technical ladder and would appreciate your support in helping us benchmark. We are most concerned that our...
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...
Quantitative ratings of key aspects of employee satisfaction and morale as shown by direct employee surveys.
March 27, 2017
Sonoco is currently in the process of updating dashboard metrics to track progress against innovation goals for the company. We would like to get feedback on what priority metrics your company tracks...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition The elapsed time from either identification of a customer product need or the establishment of a...
Perspectives on the "Corporate "Fellow title and its variations.
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...
Monday March 05, 2018 – Wednesday March 07, 2018
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Completed October 2017 Deliverables Member Summit 2017 Presentation The Hollywood Model Project Charter Statement of Opportunity "To compete in today’s market, companies must look beyond just...
Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics 1. Metric Definition A qualitative evaluation of the degree to which a project team is supported by its management through...