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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.


Culture

RTM - Capitalizing on Thought Diversity for Innovation
September 01, 2009
The multiple and often contradictory team dynamics that arise in diverse teams present organizations with major challenges. For example, while a team’s functional diversity can help produce...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Culture
  • Knowledge Management
RTM - Building a Creative High-Performance R&D Culture
September 01, 2009
A highly effective CREATIVE R&D culture combines C ustomer-focused, R isk-tolerant, E ntrepreneurial, A lignment with strategy, T echnology and scientific excellence, I nnovative, V irtual...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Culture
  • Alliances/Collaborations
  • Open Innovation
  • New Product Development
RTM - Aligning Marketing and Technology to Drive Innovation
July 01, 2009
Creating breakthrough innovations requires alignment of both marketing and R&D processes within organizations. In a study aimed at determining the most effective practices for developing...
  • RTM Journal
  • New Business Development
  • Identify New Business Opportunities
  • Organization
  • Culture
RTM - Integrating Cultures: R&D Leader's Newest Task
July 01, 2009
The world has high hopes for research/technology leaders. You are expected to jump-start the global economy with innovations in areas such as green technology, biotechnology, stem cell cures,...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Culture
RTM - What Makes High-Performance Teams Excel?
May 01, 2009
Managers who lead high-performance teams in highly competitive industries must balance complex interpersonal relationships with corporate deadlines and quality standards. Pressure on the team to...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Culture
  • Talent Management
RTM - Learn from New Product Failures
July 01, 2009
Many companies do not learn from their new product mistakes. Consequently, the mistakes are repeated, wasting millions, even billions, of R&D and marketing dollars every year. Product development...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • New Business Development
  • Identify New Business Opportunities
  • Culture
RTM - Erosion of R&D's Value
July 01, 2009
The ability of internal R&D to contribute to a company’s revenue growth is weakened by the presence of conditions termed R&D Value Eroders TM. These conditions erode the relevance of R&D...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Increase Return on Investment
  • Culture
  • New Product Development
RTM - Inspiring the Future Generation of Engineers
May 01, 2009
Science, math and technology have been struggling with an image problem. For some time now, our culture has glorified the worlds of sports and entertainment, leading children to believe that these...
  • RTM Journal
  • C-Level
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
  • Culture
RTM - In Innovation, is Patience a Virtue?
May 01, 2009
Patience is a virtue, if one is willing to persevere during preparation, planning and execution (program completion). Impatience is a virtue, if one, reacting to what has been learned in the lab or...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Culture
  • Talent Management
RTM - Managing Global R&D Operations – Lessons from the Trenches
March 01, 2009
Globalized R&D operations require far more than an offshore R&D center or a partnership with a low-cost country service provider. Early questions around “ Why globalize? ” have been replaced...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • IT
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Globalization
  • Culture
RTM - Creating a Winning R&D Culture - I
January 01, 2009
Dow Chemical’s Polyolefins and Elastomers (PO&E) business was doing so poorly in 1991 that it was being considered for divestiture. This first of two articles describes how a five-step approach...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Culture
  • Talent Management
RTM - Innovating for Effectiveness: Lessons from Design Firms
September 01, 2010
Product and business innovation are integral to corporate growth. Insights into improving the design and development process can help achieve better innovation outcomes. We report the findings of a...
  • RTM Journal
  • Design
  • Management
  • Culture
  • New Business Development
RTM - Managing Culturally Diverse Teams
January 01, 2009
When French company Groupe Bull prepared to merge with American firm Zenith Data Systems, American and French and engineers working for Bull discussed the difficulties of working with each other. As...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Culture
  • Talent Management
RTM - Implementing Change in Smaller Firms
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: How to achieve a sustained competitive advantage that ensures long-term survival has become a major concern for managers of any company, but especially for managers of small and medium-...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Organization
  • Culture
  • Innovation
RTM - Creating a Winning R&D Culture – I
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: Dow Chemical’s Polyolefins and Elastomers (PO&E) business was doing so poorly in 1991 that it was being considered for divestiture. This first of two articles describes how a five-step...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • New Business Development
  • Workforce capability
  • Culture
RTM - Effective Practices for Sourcing Innovation
January 01, 2009
OVERVIEW: Even large firms cannot mobilize all the ideas, technology, business expertise, and market channels they need to deliver breakthrough products. A new model is rapidly emerging in which...
  • RTM Journal
  • Leverage External Resources
  • Open Innovation
  • Alliances/Collaborations
  • Culture

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