October 09, 2019
Companies make choices between investments in R&D, productivity, tech service and the plant, or choices between different types of R&D. To make these choices they balance the risk, return,...
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Monday October 28, 2019 – Wednesday October 30, 2019
View Speakers Hotel Information Agenda Register i201 Workshop IRI is coming to the west coast! Attendees will come from Boeing, IRI member entities, and other companies with innovation leadership in...
What software do you use to manage your portfolio? We are interested in better understanding, from a users' perspective, what software / tools you use to manage your innovation projects and...
How do you handle global CoE's? For U.S. companies with global centers of excellence (China/India/Brazil/Europe/etc): How do you make decisions when setting up these COE's? How do you determine which...
Does your organization pay professional society dues for individuals? Typically members of a technical community participate in exterior memberships in professional societies -- ie AICHE, American...
What portion of researcher time and spend is used for ideation? What portion of R&D researcher time and spend is used for IDEATION? Do you have any data on typical time and spend that you would...
IRI Research: Two Types of Projects Strategic projects: These projects are developed by IRI based on member input (Voice of Member data, task forces). They are managed by members and IRI staff...
(Provide a model of sustained innovation and accountability) R&D's role in the innovation process can be meaningfully represented by a hierarchy of managerial factors (the Technology Value...
June 01, 2012
Join Bruce Vojak and Ray Price, University of Illinois, for "Serial Innovators: How Individuals Create and Deliver Breakthrough Innovations at Mature Firms." Bruce and Ray are giving an encore...
October 26, 2010
Four authors present case study of a customer-leading approach to New Product Development Chicago, IL, October 26, 2010 - The Industrial Research Institute (IRI) announced yesterday the winners of...
Our organization has a robust technology roadmap process and we are exploring various ways to make the data understandable and relevant to a broad customer set. How has your organization overcome this challenge? In addition, do you have recommendations for how your organization has engaged customers directly in roadmap plans and updates?
IRI2038 Futures Study Gain provocative insights into how futures trends, developments, and events impact the art and science of research and technology management over the next 25 years. Available in...
How you do you structure your business development function? Can someone provide me with a typical organization management structure/chart for a business development or revenue generation function...
February 22, 2017
This project is working to identify a set of tools that R&D organizations can use to effectively employ technical liquid talent. They are specifically looking at the following areas: 1. Knowledge...
April 17, 2018
Discussion Summary What measures are organizations implementing to recruit and retain top talent? Recruiting from universities Even as an organization’s recruiting focus shifts, it should maintain a...
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