How do you handle raw material strategy? How do you manage and guide raw material strategy within your organization? Do you have specific tools that you use to do this? - Manager, Raw Material Group...
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Hack-a-thons are single live meetings held to tackle one particular, discreet challenge facing R&D practitioners, typically lasting two hours to one full day. The goal is to create a deliverable...
How do you organize R&D? The CTO from Procter & Gamble, Bruce Brown, gave an excellent presentation on "Why Innovation Matters: Mastering a Reliable, Repeatable Process" as the opening...
April 27, 2020
IRI is mourning the loss of former Director of R&D at GE Research, Walter Robb. Dr. Robb was 91 when he died from complications of COVID-19. A chemical engineer by training, he was tasked with...
Are you listening to your supply chain, or just your customers? Has anyone had success in driving innovation by bypassing your immediate (direct) customers and significantly impacting end-users or...
Do you use an Innovation Index? At John Deere, we are considering developing an “Innovation Index”, an indicator that measures the health and performance of our innovation efforts. We recognize that...
What should IRI tell the President about the barriers to advanced manufacturing? With a focus on new approaches and options that could be added to the President's platform, what might the government...
Completed October 2017 IRI's 2017 Strategic Research Platform: Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management Following on from the IRI2038 Futures Study and the Digitalization and R&D...
Match Making in Open Innovation September 2009 | PROJECT STAGE 2 - Technology Development Technology transfer is an integral part of Open Innovation and collaboration between universities, government...
1998 - 2000 Deliverables RTM article 2001 " Knowledge Management in R&D ", Volume 44, issue 4, p 28-48 Description Objective: develop information to better understand knowledge management and its...
What tools do you use to make scientists better project managers? We are interested in learning what tools other organizations use to make their scientists better project managers. We would prefer to...
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Wednesday April 01, 2020 1:00pm – Thursday April 02, 2020 3:00pm
Highly acclaimed program exclusively for technology leaders gives your high potential innovation managers the skills to make more effective strategic decisions. In partnership with Kellogg.
How do you handle shared vs. individual space in labs? In a recent discussion on a laboratory expansion project, questions were raised regarding use of shared space vs. individual space. Your...
What is your experience with knowledge sharing? At last Friday's outstanding Brown Bag , Dan Ranta of ConocoPhillips talked about their experiences and successes in Knowledge Sharing using...
How do you spot the BIG opportunities? What operating rhythm, processes, & metrics do you employ to preferentially identify, generate, AND screen BIG new opportunities in the early stages of the...