May 01, 2004
Managers choosing which R&D projects to fund typically rely on rank-ordering heuristics when other valuation methods are not applicable. These heuristics are powerful, but they have a number of...
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February 2011 - Member Summit 2012 This group is exploring the most effective processes for identifying disruptive technologies early enough for businesses to benefit from the opportunity or to...
Does your organization do flex time? Has anyone implemented flex time in an R&D environment? What has worked best for your organization? - Deb Dihel, Director of R&D, ConAgra Foods Community...
May 18, 2020
Welcome to Week 2 of IRI's VIRTUAL 2020 Annual Conference Campbell Soup’s Vice President of R&D, Craig Slavtcheff, will be kicking off the second week with how Campbell Soup has hardwired #Agile...
January 01, 2020
More companies are realizing they have a role to play in solving some of the most critical problems of our time. Sustainability, social justice, and community development are now in scope for...
November 01, 1986
Research has progressed from being an affordable luxury to becoming an expensive requirement. But the question today is, "Where do we go from here? " Assuming that governmental and societal factors...
November 01, 2018
Mark Johnson is a senior partner and co-founder of the management consultancy Innosight. His new book, Reinvent Your Business Model, draws on his experience helping companies respond to disruptive...
June 16, 2017
Innovation is the top reason to embark on a biologically inspired design (BID) project, according to attendees of IRI's 2017 webinar "Biologically Inspired Design for Industry: An Evolving Practice...
April 20, 2020
A message from both Eds: IRI Members helping in the COVID-19 response PPG to Donate 80,000 Masks to Hospitals in Pittsburgh, New York, Cleveland, Detroit, Huntsville Xerox plans to mass produce...
November 01, 2017
At a scenario planning event for Industrial Research Institute members, a participant asked, “If another group had the same trends would they have created the same scenario we did?” The answer is no...
How do you spark creativity with limited resources? I am trying to establish a feeling of creativity and curiosity on what's going on outside of the narrow world of our own products. We have a sub...
October 15, 2014
Envisioning Tomorrow's R&D Leader J. Stewart Witzeman, PhD, Director, Eastman Innovation Center, Eastman Chemical Pamela Henderson, PhD, Chief Executive Officer, NewEdge, Inc. The world is...
March 01, 2006
Managers of incremental innovation know that any product possesses four Ps: product (incremental), price, place, and promotion. But any manager of radical innovation should also know that there is...
May 09, 2017
Dr. Jackson shares his perspective on how external collaboration, crowdsourcing, and startup incubation can play a significant role in dramatic future aerospace and defense capabilities. Lockheed...
October 20, 2015
Panel Discussion: Success Stories & Overcoming Obstacles Michael (Mike) Blackburn, MS, ThD, Portfolio/Program Leader, Cargill Global Research Management Valerie Bowe, Engineering Director,...
April 28, 2015
Digitalization and R&D - Collaboration Building on the success of IRI’s first strategic research platform, theIRI2038 Futures Study, we have launched our next ground-breaking study: ‘The Next...