September 01, 2005
The word sustainability has many meanings, most often connoting a reactive response to an environmental problem. The three articles that follow first provide definitions for sustainability that...
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July 01, 2017
Design for service is critical to making the focus on service work at Rolls-Royce. This article describes the company’s Advanced Services Transformation Roadmap, which ensures that services are...
July 10, 2017
FM Global is a unique insurance company. It’s an engineering-based insurer. Our business model is based on reducing our clients’ property risk and potential for business interruption through...
October 10, 2017
This research effort has focused on the product design implications of mass customization on manufacturers/producers. Customer demand for individually configured and customized products is on the...
May 14, 2018
The R&D activities of our company support a very mature chemical process industry. One support group focuses on developing conceptual process designs to help researchers understand, identify, and...
July 12, 2018
Express Session Lean thinking has revolutionized manufacturing around the world but few companies have been successful in applying the principles to a product development or innovation creation...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Through the years, enduring business models have relied on Barriers to Entry (usually through large infrastructure investments) and Customer Intimacy. Wild offers some new tools and...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Through the SPRING program, RTI and IRI are providing members with research on trends impacting innovation leaders today. Translating information about emerging trends into insights...
July 13, 2018
Breakout Session This session will explore Westinghouse Electric Company’s unique approach to radical innovation. It will focus on the value of documenting, empowering, and adjusting a core...
July 13, 2018
Breakout Session We’ll take a deep dive into how brand behavior mapping helped a billion dollar whiskey company develop a strategy to recapture the bourbon millennial. In this interactive session, we...
January 01, 2019
As vice president of engineering for the Chamberlain Group, Mark Karasek has overseen an evolution in the company’s innovation approach. I joined Chamberlain 25 years ago as a senior design engineer...
April 30, 2019
As we experience the global embrace of digital lifestyles, is your organization able to keep up with the pace of change? This talk will explore the many levers of change including AI, IoT, machine...
March 01, 2020
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognise ability. —Robert Half The entire business of assessing professionals’ talents is fraught with...
Friday April 27, 2018 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Innovation Program Manager, Cenk Guler will discuss the Westinghouse Electric Company’s unique approach to radical innovation. The webinar will focus on the value of documenting, empowering, and...
The TVP 2.1 tool is a resource for members of the Industrial Research Institute. Member log-in is required. Background | User Guide | Program Contents | Stakeholders | List of Metrics Information for...
Gross profit as a percentage of sales.