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Talent Management

2017 Member Summit
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."
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RTM - Understanding the People You Manage
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...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Talent Management
RTM - What Matters to R&D Workers
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...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
  • Process Improvement
RTM - What It Means to be CTO
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...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
RTM - Jeff Requests to Innovate
March 01, 2005
“Tom Evers,” XYZ Corporation’s research VP, reviewed the year’s accomplishments with his staff and it was painfully obvious that he was not at all pleased. He expressed mild dissatisfaction with most...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
RTM - Keeping Virtual R&D Teams Creative
March 01, 2005
Firms have no choice today but to disperse their new product units in order to access dispersed knowledge and skills. As a result, there is a general movement toward “virtual” R&D teams (1). But...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
RTM - Creating Collaboration
November 01, 2006
Remember when the management gurus told you your job was to build teamwork? Now the in-word is collaboration, because innovation of all kinds requires high levels of interactivity, not only within...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
  • Alliances/Collaborations
RTM - Impeding Scientists’ Productivity
September 01, 2006
Life scientists are frustrated by aspects of their organizations that they feel make it harder to accomplish the goals for which they were trained and hired. They report unclear goals, communication...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Talent Management
RTM - Total Rewards: Good Fit for Tech Workers
September 01, 2006
Total rewards is a promising approach to rewards management that has been adopted by such technology-intensive firms as IBM, Microsoft, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. Total rewards takes a...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Talent Management
RTM - Who Do You Want Leading Your Organization?
July 01, 2006
Catherine and Marcus leave college with advanced technical degrees and spend 20 years climbing the corporate ladder until today they are vice presidents of R&D and CTOs of comparable firms. They...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
RTM - Materials Research Takes Early Retirement
July 01, 2006
“Pete Gettings,” XYZ’s personnel director was briefing “Tom Evers,” R&D vice president, on the latest, alarming, retirement statistics he had read (1). “The essence is that American companies are...
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  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
  • Knowledge Management
RTM - The Coming Knowledge and Capability Shortage
July 01, 2006
As the 76 million baby boomers, who represent 28 percent of the U.S. working population, begin retiring, organizations face a knowledge and capability crisis. The experience, knowledge, skills, and...
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  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
  • Knowledge Management
RTM - Optimizing R&D Staff Integration
July 01, 2006
Science, art, or both? When it comes to successful integration of acquired employees into an established organization and culture, both references are relevant and critical to eventual success. While...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
  • Culture
RTM - Dealing With the New Diversity
May 01, 2006
If you’ve felt confused about how you should deal with diversity in your laboratories, that’s understandable, since there are at least three possible meanings of the term, and they each call for...
  • RTM Journal
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Workforce capability
  • Talent Management
  • Culture
RTM - So You Want to Be a Global Project Leader?
May 01, 2006
In today’s global environment, new product development often requires the collaboration of cross-functional team members living and working indifferent countries. Dissimilar languages, cultures and...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Globalization
  • Talent Management
  • New Product Development
RTM - Tom Tries “Rank-and-Yank” Appraisal
March 01, 2006
Annual appraisal time was approaching at the XYZ R&D Laboratories and “Tom Evers,” vice-president, and “Pete Getting,” personnel director, were in a serious discussion of the process and, in...
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