September 01, 2007
OVERVIEW: Sourcing innovation externally and being able to collaborate are the keys to success in the “flat world†that Thomas Friedman has written about. The challenge continues to be how to...
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Alliances/Collaborations
July 01, 2007
In today’s competitive business and technology environment, the consideration of acquiring technology from industry leaders to deliver technology-based solutions is an imperative. Although there is...
July 01, 2007
Industrial research institutes used to be government-financed organizations with mandates to advance industrial technology and improve economic competitiveness. Good R&D people were assembled and...
May 01, 2007
Disruptive innovations increasingly originate in private sector emerging growth firms—or gazelles, as they are commonly called. Unfortunately, managers of large corporations find it difficult to...
March 01, 2007
In “Connect & Develop Complements Research & Develop at P&G†(RTM, March–April2002), Nabil Sakkab described the company’s then new strategy of using corporate intranet and “smartâ€...
March 01, 2007
Traditional organization and management structures, inherited from the Industrial Revolution, are no longer adequate for the 21st century. They were designed for an era when product and process life...
January 01, 2007
Getting talented engineers and scientists to take appropriate risks is one of the keys to building a more innovative organization. Boeing has worked to accomplish this over the past nine years by...
January 01, 2007
Business model innovation is vital to sustaining open innovation. External technology partner-ships allow open business models to accomplish even more. One important mechanism for innovating one’s...
December 02, 2016
As emerging markets continue to grow in both size and economic influence, innovation managers at companies around the glove increasingly turn to those markets for new ideas that could catalyze their...
November 09, 2016
If you open the newspaper, the world seems very dark. Violence and poverty and societal stresses seem to rule the day, and the future can look bleak. But the data tell a different story. I believe we...
October 17, 2016
Fire protection standards have largely been developed to date by conducting large-scale fire tests. These standards are not fixed and have to be updated as evolving buildings, materials and...
October 18, 2016
City Digital, UI Labs, and the Cross-Industry Collaborative Platform https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/499/video_presentation...
Opening Keynote: Driving Motorola Solutions’ Digital Transformation with Innovation through Data Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office Paul Steinberg, Senior...
August 30, 2016
As emerging markets continue to grow in both size and economic influence, innovation managers at companies around the globe increasingly turn to those markets for new ideas that could catalyze their...
May 24, 2016
Are you interested in expanding your company’s R&D base and/or IP portfolio? Each year federal laboratories conduct over $40 billion of fundamental and applied research, much of which is in...
May 24, 2016
The Collaboration project is part of IRI’s strategic research platform on Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. During this interactive session participants are invited to...