May 21, 2014
Increase Return on Investment Nilesh Shah, PhD, Global R&D Director, Consumer & Industrial Solutions, Dow Chemical Company This breakout begins with a brief thought-starter presentation led...
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May 21, 2014
Achieving the Desired Rate of Business Growth E. Jefferson Hynds, Director, Innovation, Ingersoll Rand Company This breakout begins with a brief thought-starter presentation led by IRI member Chief...
January 03, 2016
Panel Session: How R&D Creates Value Alan Epstein, PhD, Vice President Technology & Environment, Pratt & Whitney Clifford Spiro, PhD, Cliff Spiro Consulting Group LLC Anne Marie Knott,...
May 27, 2014
Demonstrating and Improving the Value of R&D Anne Marie Knott, PhD, Professor of Strategy, Olin Business School, Washington University Historically R&D has been the engine of both corporate...
September 01, 2011
OVERVIEW: Measuring the effectiveness of R&D has been a perennial challenge. IRI's Research-on-Research working group Measuring the Effectiveness of R&D sought to investigate how managers...
July 01, 2011
The 2011 McKinsey Global Survey on R&D, performed in March, took place just as political instability in the Middle East brought rising oil prices, and with them, a new round of economic...
How do you choose which conferences to attend? We receive many invitations to conferences and meetings that offer value, but attending all of them would be impossible. Do you have any mechanisms for...
How do you handle contingency funds for capital projects? How does your organization handle contingency funds for capital projects? Do you have a provision for contingency funds for the projects? Y/N...
How is your R&D investment split between projects focused on Growth, Competitiveness, and Sustaining? Do you track this as part of your R&D Portfolio analysis? If so, and you are comfortable...
Can you help with Life Cycle Analyses? We are interested in gaining expertise on Life Cycle Analyses and methodologies. Do you have any information or recommendations for training, courses,...
Can you recommend a consultant who can assess our overall R&D investment? I am looking for some guidance/recommendations for consulting firms to complete an "optimized state" for our current...
May 01, 2012
Each year, Booz Allen Hamilton administers the Global Innovation 1000, a survey of the world’s 1000 biggest R&D spenders. The survey, originated in 2005, was started to validate the accepted...
What software do you use to manage your portfolio? We are interested in better understanding, from a users' perspective, what software / tools you use to manage your innovation projects and...
What portion of researcher time and spend is used for ideation? What portion of R&D researcher time and spend is used for IDEATION? Do you have any data on typical time and spend that you would...
How do you manage R&D investment during an economic downturn? Is there any data or information that shows if a company/organization continues to maintain or increase investment in R&D during...
What Metrics Do You Use for Open Innovation? How does your organization specify Open Innovation metrics and measure key performance indicators? Do you relate the OI Metric as percentage of net sales...