December 10, 2019
Corporate entrepreneurship has always been an essential engine of growth and renewal, but its focus has been to drive sustaining innovations in core businesses. CEOs increasingly recognize the need...
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Initiated: Winter 2020 Expected completion: Late 2021 Kick off webinar Value proposition Acceleration of the transformation of corporate entrepreneurship capabilities by identifying best and next...
Friday January 10, 2020 12:00pm – 1:00pm
In the spring and summer of 2019, IRI sponsored research with its members to examine questions around innovation structure and governance. Jeffrey Phillips teamed with Tim Dennison (Sealed Air),...
December 02, 2019
This report summarizes results from an IRI survey exploring how organizations document risk and use it in assessing their R&D portfolios. The topic of risk in the context of portfolio management...
November 14, 2019
Author: Jeffrey Phillips Contributors: Mike Blackburn (Cargill), Michael Blades (National Gypsum), Tim Dennison (Sealed Air), RTI Innovation Advisors November, 2019 The purpose of this short white...
November 01, 2019
This column is the latest in a series of discussions aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management. The object is to take on the profession’s terms of art, exploring their origins and...
November 01, 2019
Have you noticed how much more accurate Google search results have become in the last year? … Machine learning. Have you seen the improvements when you search for pictures and videos online? …...
November 01, 2019
This article is about how digital transformation really happens: how companies go from being traditional, physical, legacy companies to thriving and competing in the digital age. A four-year study,...
November 01, 2019
The principles of the Lean Startup movement work. They can be used to reliably create new businesses, whether those businesses are startups or new ventures within companies that have been operating...
November 12, 2019
Michelin has been a tire company for 130 years. But over the past five years, Michelin has reimagined itself as a mobility company—a company embedded in the user’s full mobility experience, not just...
November 01, 2019
My journey to science started when I was six years old and my brother was born with Down’s syndrome. At that time no one—physicians or parents—could even begin to explain what happened when a baby...
November 01, 2019
The United States has been the center of global innovation since the end of World War II. This dominance intensified with the growth of the giants of the Internet age, but it is changing as strong...
November 01, 2019
“When digital transformation is done right, it’s like a caterpillar turning into a butterfly, but when done wrong, all you have is a really fast caterpillar.” —George Westerman,MIT Sloan Initiative...
November 01, 2019
Leroy Hood, Institute for Systems Biology, accepts the IRI Medal from IRI Committee Program Chair Dan Abramowicz at IRI’s 2019 Annual Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 2, 2019. Step 1:...
November 01, 2019
Robert Cooper, a Crawford Fellow of the Product Development and Management Association, left, and Anita Friis Sommer, senior innovation manager in Operations at LEGO Group, accept the 2019 Maurice...
November 12, 2019
Artificial intelligence is already being used for simple writing tasks, like generating basic sports stories and financial reports. The Washington Post, the New York Times, and Forbes use AI-...