November 01, 2018
The theme of IRI’s 2018 Annual Conference, held in May in Atlanta, was Breaking Boundaries. Presentations and conversations focused on new approaches to innovation, new ways of innovating, and new...
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November 29, 2018
Servitization has attracted significant attention from the manufacturing industry for its potential to provide competitive advantage. Advanced services require alternative pricing models, such as pay...
September 01, 2018
The Internet of Things (IoT) allows for remote management and monitoring of many aspects of everyday life at the individual and industrial levels. However, designing these systems within constraints...
March 01, 2019
Political analysts have tagged November’s midterm elections for the House of Representatives as both a blue wave, because the Democratic party gained 40 seats in the house, and a pink wave, owing to...
March 01, 2019
The European Union’s €1 billion ($1.1 billion) Quantum Technologies Flagship has finally cast off; the first projects, 20 in all, were awarded €132 million in October to launch the program’s three-...
March 01, 2019
The next frontier in agriculture may well be indoors. Advances in crop science and energy technologies, against the backdrop of climate change and population growth, have spurred innovations in...
September 01, 2018
The Internet of Things (IoT) allows for remote management and monitoring of many aspects of everyday life at the individual and industrial levels. However, designing these systems within constraints...
March 01, 2015
OVERVIEW: Leaders at incumbent firms increasingly recognize that in order to sustain growth and protect their companies from disruption, they must innovate “outside the core”—beyond the familiar...
July 01, 2015
I have had only one job for my entire professional career. John Spirk and I graduated from the Industrial Design Department of the Cleveland Institute of Art at the same time. We both had Fortune 500...
January 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: Many companies use some form of idea-to-launch process with staged gates for their new product development (NPD). This article reports the development of a governance framework for...
January 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: As the creator of the Stage-Gate® process, I am often asked, “What’s next after stage-gate?” For years, I’ve not had an answer. Now, we’re seeing new approaches emerging from progressive...
January 01, 2014
OVERVIEW: This article describes the development of a maturity model for assessing and guiding R&D organizations in creating innovative sustainable products and services that drive growth. While...
May 01, 2012
OVERVIEW: Customer integration into the innovation process, including the fuzzy front end, is increasingly being adopted by firms in search of new innovation and value-creation opportunities. Through...
January 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: The best companies often work closely with their customers to uncover needs and wants that can be translated into new or improved product or service offerings. The lead-user research method...
May 01, 2011
The Internet continues to create titanic shifts in everything from business models to geopolitics. It affects how companies innovate, how managers manage, and how businesses operate. Vint Cerf is one...
July 01, 2011
Creativity and innovation remain serious concerns for most companies. But there are differences in opinion as to the best road through the challenges that lay ahead. How does organizational culture...