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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.


RTM - Forecasting Innovation
November 09, 2016
Lessons from IARPA's Research Programs OVERVIEW: The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) is a research arm of the US intelligence community. IARPA research programs are undertaken...
  • RTM Journal
  • External Relations
  • Management
  • Research
  • Trends
  • Open Innovation
RTM - Making Innovation Happen
November 09, 2016
This discussion is about innovation--about the conditions under which innovation and invention happen. I have a few thoughts on this, from my time at Google, DARPA, IBM, and MCI. True breakthrough...
  • RTM Journal
  • C-Level
  • Management
  • New Business Development
  • Culture
  • Process Improvement
RTM - Using Real Options Discipline for Highly Uncertain Technology Investments
January 01, 2006
Existing methodologies offer little help in selecting among uncertain technology investments. However, Discovery Driven Planning in conjunction with Real Options Discipline allows managers to make...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Risk Management
  • Portfolio Management
RTM - Planning Your Firm’s R&D Investment
March 01, 2006
Setting the level of R&D spending is one of the most important strategic decisions made by top management of technology-based firms. The delay between the commitment to expenditure for R&D...
  • RTM Journal
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Increase Return on Investment
  • Metrics/Finance
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Building Collaborative Innovation Capability
March 01, 2006
Product innovation and supply chain process innovation efforts have traditionally been managed as separate activities. Today, collaborative innovation approaches seek to integrate them. The effect is...
  • RTM Journal
  • IT
  • Management
  • Alliances/Collaborations
  • New Product Development
RTM - Portfolio Management at the Mexican Petroleum Institute
July 01, 2006
Although project prioritization is widely used for analyzing portfolios, there is often a bias toward considering only quantitative criteria. This fails to account for such key considerations as...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Optimize Company Portfolio
  • Portfolio Management
  • Strategic Planning
RTM - Management From A to Z: 2057
January 01, 2007
Continuity and change will mark the rubbery boundaries of a manager’s work life 50 years from now. Information technologies will facilitate and improve the handling of such issues as education and...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Trends
RTM - Defining the Sharing Economy
March 07, 2017
This column is the latest in a series of discussions aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to take on the profession’s terms of art, exploring their origins and...
  • RTM Journal
  • External Relations
  • Leverage External Resources
  • Alliances/Collaborations
RTM - Killing the Official Future
May 01, 2015
We all know the future is important to our professions, our organizations, and our personal lives. Many of us are fascinated by emerging social trends, technology and research breakthroughs, or...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Research
  • Culture
  • Trends
RTM - Meeting Tomorrow's Energy Demand
November 01, 2012
Energy in all its forms—oil, natural gas, coal, wood, wind, solar, hydropower, nuclear, geothermal, and bio-derived fuels—is required on a massive scale to drive economic progress and improve...
  • RTM Journal
Member Summit 2017 - Liquid is About More Than Talent
October 10, 2017
With its promise to deliver access to an ‘on demand’ crowd of skilled professionals, the concept of liquid talent, or a liquid workforce, is gaining in popularity. The model, however, comes with a...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
RTM - Big Data and the Future of R&D Management
September 17, 2017
This study explores the concept of big data and whether, and to what extent, it might affect R&D management in the future. Through extensive discussions to dissect the nature of big data and to...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • IRI Research
RTM - New Products: What Distinguishes the Winners?
November 01, 1990
An accurate understanding of why new products succeed or fail is vital to improving new product performance; If the keys to success are descriptors of the product, market, technology, or their...
  • RTM Journal
RTM - Managing Foreign R&D in China
May 14, 2018
China has become one of the most desired locations in which to do R&D. However, it has little innovation of its own, and intellectual property protection is weak. This raises questions: Is China...
  • RTM Journal
RTM - France to Europe: Get Disruptive on Innovation
May 14, 2018
Leave it to Emmanuel Macron to rock the boat. After launching his movement to win the French presidency, the ambitious politician has floated an idea to spur innovation in Europe, one that would see...
  • RTM Journal
  • Emerging Technologies
RTM - Reflections on “Effective Strategies to Catch Up in the Era of Globalization”
May 14, 2018
When I wrote “Effective Strategies to Catch Up in the Era of Globalization” in 2011, I wanted to report a research finding that I believed very important: that globalization was posing huge...
  • RTM Journal
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Globalization
  • Strategic Planning

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