September 18, 2020
The impacts of COVID on the industrial space exceed short term shutdowns, changing demands and product mix, and disrupted supply chains. We can expect to see a decade’s worth of digital change happen...
Learning Center
IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.
Finance
Wednesday December 02, 2020 1:00pm – 4:00pm
This course is designed to provide an introduction to the different types of financial calculations that are used in innovation. In it, the participants will learn essential tools such as calculating...
October 16, 2019
The panel will explore themes under the umbrella of digital operations, including: The ability for digital and physical assets to deliver intelligent and personal user experiences through digital...
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...
Monday September 17, 2018 – Wednesday September 19, 2018
The Fall Networks Conference is a can't-miss event with member curated agendas from 5 of our Networks: External Technology , Intellectual Assets Management , Innovation Leaders , Information Services...
March 09, 2018
Companies often use new product sales (sometimes referred to as new product vitality) as a measure of R&D effectiveness. This metric is often reported as the ratio of new product sales (sales...
Monday March 05, 2018 – Wednesday March 07, 2018
Last chance to register! Dive into hot topics with colleagues and explore some of Denver's unique industries.
October 10, 2017
As IRI and RTI launch their new trends initiative, SPRING, Ted Farrington reviews IRI's recent work on trends and the key findings from those studies. ​ Jeff Cope and Tom Culver of RTI outline the...
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...
May 01, 2004
Most knowledge-intensive organizations recognize that their source of competitive advantage comes from human capital. Yet few reliable metrics exist for measuring its value. A new metric draws on...
May 10, 2017
Express Learning R&D isn’t driving growth the way it used to--its productivity has fallen 65% over the past several years. Professor Knott conducted two NSF studies across a full spectrum of...
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...
March 22, 2017
This interactive presentation will focus on how to create an actionable strategy, how to identify gaps between spending and strategy, and how to build consensus about priorities that are on-strategy...
March 22, 2017
Ranking is just one aspect of prioritization; how do we bridge the gap between ranking and corporate priorities In this interactive discussion we’ll talk about - Choosing financial or scoring model-...
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,...
What PLM Costs Should We Expect? We are looking for benchmark costs on implementing a new PLM system for a CPG company that maintains an active catalog of 11,000 products with 300 new product...