May 21, 2013
IRI Diamond Jubilee R&D Benchmarking Stage: Gathering and analyzing data The focus of this special R&D Benchmarking project is to explore typical R&D (may be referred to as Technology or...
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September 04, 2018
Innovation comes with many iterations and discovery, especially when exploring early stage technology. We’d like to know how companies allocate their resources for such early stage projects along...
November 30, 2018
One of the most commonly reported innovation metrics is R&D spending as a percent of sales. However, it’s not always clear what expenses are counted towards that total. Your participation in this...
March 27, 2017
Sonoco is currently in the process of updating dashboard metrics to track progress against innovation goals for the company. We would like to get feedback on what priority metrics your company tracks...
How is your R&D investment split between projects focused on Growth, Competitiveness, and Sustaining? Do you track this as part of your R&D Portfolio analysis? If so, and you are comfortable...
Can you recommend a consultant who can assess our overall R&D investment? I am looking for some guidance/recommendations for consulting firms to complete an "optimized state" for our current...
We would like to benchmark the spending and impact of front-end-innovation and R&D. In order to be competitive in the market, many companies invest in R&D for new innovative products,...
May 25, 2016
Breakout Session Technology forecasts are important to the allocation of investment capital and if accurate can be a bellwether for the disruptive innovation needed to fuel growth. Accordingly,...
August 16, 2017
What is Your Vitality Index? Vitality Index (new product revenues as a percent of total revenues) is a common metric used to show the innovation effectiveness of an R&D organization. Two IRI...
What Metrics Do You Use for Open Innovation? How does your organization specify Open Innovation metrics and measure key performance indicators? Do you relate the OI Metric as percentage of net sales...
How do you choose which conferences to attend? We receive many invitations to conferences and meetings that offer value, but attending all of them would be impossible. Do you have any mechanisms for...
January 01, 2010
The dilemmas of managing R&D are difficult in any time, but they really come to the forefront during a recession. How much focus should be on short-term versus long-term programs? What should the...
January 12, 2018
Does your company struggle with getting the correct allocation of resources across the portfolio? One aspect of portfolio management is how to spread your resource across the various R&D time...
September 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Measuring the effectiveness of R&D has been a perennial challenge. IRI's Research-on-Research working group Measuring the Effectiveness of R&D sought to investigate how managers...
May 24, 2011
What Information Networks Reveal About Productivity: Strategies for Building Data-Driven Insight Jacomo Corbo, PhD, Partner, EVP Analytics, QuantumBlack Measuring productivity remains a notoriously...
How do you manage R&D investment during an economic downturn? Is there any data or information that shows if a company/organization continues to maintain or increase investment in R&D during...