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...
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Talent Management
February 23, 2017
The goals of this project are to gain a better understanding of the role of the leader of the R&D function in an organization (e.g. CTO, VP of R&D, CSO; CTO for shorthand), the path that...
February 23, 2017
This project is looking to determine key elements of an early career development experience that maximizes the mutual benefit for the employee and employer and enhances retention of top talent. The...
February 23, 2017
This project is working to determine effective ways that business objectives can be incorporated and communicated into R&D to provide motivation for technical staff and to measure performance of...
February 22, 2017
This project is working to identify a set of tools that R&D organizations can use to effectively employ technical liquid talent. They are specifically looking at the following areas: 1. Knowledge...
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...
January 06, 2017
Techniques for Data-Driven R&D Talent Management Join Bill Pike, Director of the Computational and Statistical Analytics (CSA) Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, for an encore...
Monday October 02, 2017 – Thursday October 05, 2017
Powered largely by content developed within IRI, the Summit is an in-depth exploration of various working group findings and special reports on IRI's year-long initiative on "Stragegic Challenges in R&D Talent Management."
May 01, 2005
A large part of your job as a research/technology manager is understanding people, not just evaluating how well they have performed. Evaluation is the easy part; much harder is predicting how people...
May 01, 2005
Surprisingly little empirical information is available to help laboratory managers attract and retain productive R&D workers. Most employee attitude surveys do not focus on the specific...
May 01, 2005
First, consider that over a 50-year period (and your author has been working for that time), U.S. R&D expenditures have increased from $5 billion per year to just over $300 billion. At the same...