January 15, 2019
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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...
January 01, 2019
Regular readers of this column will know that I have an on-and-off project aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management—taking on the profession’s terms of art in an effort to provide...
January 01, 2019
What are IRI members talking about? Q: What is your design thinking methodology? Design thinking is increasingly a standard process for product innovation and design; the key is empathy for the user...
January 01, 2019
The late Dean Smith, legendary head coach of the University of North Carolina basketball team, noted a common phenomenon among freshmen who were recruited into his basketball program. As star...
January 01, 2019
Don Tapscott talks with Jim Euchner about blockchain, the Internet of value, and the next Internet revolution. Don Tapscott is the author of 16 books and has been at the forefront of thinking on the...
January 01, 2019
Change before you have to. —Jack Welch I moved recently and, as a result, had occasion to go through boxes of old papers that had been buried in my basement for many years. I have had a long career...
January 01, 2019
Recycling Carbon Dioxide to Address Climate Change Even as the Paris climate accords were signed in 2015, climate scientists warned that just eliminating further addition of CO2 to the atmosphere...
January 01, 2019
A bibliometric study of Research-Technology Management (RTM), conducted for the 20-year period 1998–2017,examined citations, authors, industry sectors, and topics for 550 articles published during...
January 01, 2019
Machine learning applications in business that return forecasts or predictions of future market or consumer behavior must pay attention to nontechnical aspects of how those forecasts are created and...
January 01, 2019
Today’s CTOs engage a broad set of stakeholders and provide a vision and strategy to execute within their organization. They must have versatile skillsets to be effective in guiding the company’s...
January 01, 2019
Today’s CTOs engage a broad set of stakeholders and provide a vision and strategy to execute within their organization. They must have versatile skillsets to be effective in guiding the company’s...
January 01, 2019
Today’s CTOs engage a broad set of stakeholders and provide a vision and strategy to execute within their organization. They must have versatile skillsets to be effective in guiding the company’s...
Friday January 18, 2019 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Daniel Andrews, Research Fellow with the Advanced Services Group at the Aston Business School, will present a novel research method that adapts the classic board game Snakes and Ladders to a proposed...
December 11, 2018
With the unique aspects of how chemicals interface with R&D work, it provides some unique challenges in how we communicate hazards of small “lab scale” containers of chemicals/mixtures for...
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...