July 01, 2013
For the past 25 years I have watched companies large and small struggle to prepare for the future, lead into the future, and execute into the future. The past keeps tugging them back. And it happens...
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Trends
May 01, 2013
IRI2038 has moved into the extrapolation phase (Figure 1.) In this stage of the project, we are using implications wheels and expert panels to project potential future impacts of the trends and weak...
March 01, 2013
The IRI2038 project will explore plausible yet provocative scenarios for the future of R&D management. Using backcasting techniques, the project will consider how IRI and its members can prepare...
January 01, 2013
We are drowning in data—data from social media streams, digital images, banking and transaction records, sensors, GPS signals, and countless other sources. We create nearly 12 terabytes each day in...
January 01, 2013
An interview with Bob Johansen Bob Johansen has been forecasting the future for over 30 years at the Institute for the Future (IFTF), an independent, nonprofit research group whose mission is to...
January 01, 2013
Following several years of wide investment swings due to a drastically changing economic landscape, the Industrial Research Institute’s (IRI) 2012 survey results suggest that R&D leaders are...
January 01, 2013
The IRI2038 project will explore plausible yet provocative scenarios for the future of R&D management. Using backcasting techniques, the project will consider how IRI and its members can prepare...
January 01, 2013
As this issue of RTM arrives in your mail-box, IRI—our publisher—enters its 75th year. It does so at what John Seely Brown would call a Cambrian moment for innovation, an era of explosive change with...
March 01, 2014
In the last several decades, we have become much better at doing things right. Well-understood project management tools help companies manage schedule, cost, and requirements; program management...
January 01, 2014
Following a marked increase in R&D spending optimism in the Industrial Research Institute’s (IRI) 2011 R&D Trends Forecast, the 2012 survey results showed a decline in optimism from the 2011...
November 01, 2015
Trends are a commodity. You are one Google search from discovering hundreds of forecasts, trend lists, and predictions for your industry. Unfortunately, so are all of your competitors. Innovating...
May 01, 2015
We all know the future is important to our professions, our organizations, and our personal lives. Many of us are fascinated by emerging social trends, technology and research breakthroughs, or...
January 01, 2015
As Executive Director of Global R&D at General Motors, Gary Smyth leads the effort to deï¬ne the future of the personal transportation industry. View full article or download PDF http://www...
January 01, 2015
Results from the Industrial Research Institute’s Annual Survey IRI’s 2014 trends survey results reveal a flat outlook for 2015. Each year, typically in August and September, the Industrial Research...