January 01, 2019
Regular readers of this column will know that I have an on-and-off project aimed at defining the vocabulary of innovation management—taking on the profession’s terms of art in an effort to provide...
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October 03, 2017
Join Heather Whiteman, Head of People Strategy, Analytics & Operations at General Electric (GE) Digital, as she provides a look into GE Digital’s challenges and successes along the journey of...
August 16, 2017
What is Your Overall R&D Structure? Our company is trying to understand whether or not the organizational structure we have around new product development and the role of R&D is commonly...
July 01, 2017
Gina O’Connor and her colleagues at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lally School of Management have studied breakthrough innovation inside corporations for many years. In Radical Innovation (2000...
July 01, 2017
What does an innovation career look like? For many, it is part of a career in R&D. For others, it is just a stop on the way to a marketing or product development career. Sometimes it starts as a...
March 01, 2004
The disappearance of so many corporate names over the last two decades has been both unfortunate and unnecessary. A primary cause has been the rigidity of conventional forms of organization and...
January 01, 2004
Outsourcing product design and innovation to independent designers and inventors can be a means of introducing new-product ideas into an organization and drawing from a larger pool of creative talent...
The research & development activities of our company support a very mature chemical process industry. One support group focuses on developing conceptual process designs to help researchers...
March 07, 2017
Investment in innovation training has the potential to help firms create more successful product offerings, but the extent to which companies do innovation training is unknown. Although efforts to...
FM Global would like to benchmark with IRI peers to learn what the career development structure of various research organizations look like. The impact of social media as well as shorter tenures influence employee expectations for mobility and we all want to stay relevant in the marketplace.
January 20, 2017
In 1955, the Committee on Evaluation of Engineering Education, headed by respected educator Linton Grinter, issued a call to modernize engineering education in the United States. During World War II...
What vacation vesting schedule do you use for new hires? PPG is evaluating its current vacation vesting schedule and would like to ensure we are competitive in the current market. What vacation...
Completed October 2017 Deliverables Today's Innovation Leaders (RTM article) 2017 Member Summit Final Report Out Project Charter Statement of Opportunity ‘R&D’ and ‘innovation’ are often used...
Deliverables Infographic summarizing results Recruitment and Retention of Early Career Technical Talent - RTM Journal, September - October, 2018 ***to view, log into your IRI account, click here once...
Completed October 2017 Deliverables Member Summit 2017 Presentation The Hollywood Model Project Charter Statement of Opportunity "To compete in today’s market, companies must look beyond just...
March 01, 2005
Informal cultures exist in every organization, and in every nation. They can provide incentives for greatness as well as barriers to the necessary changes required for survival. Cultures evolve,...