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...
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Talent Management
March 30, 2016
The ability to recruit exceptionally talented and capable management leaders is possibly the purest form of exceptional entrepreneurship and the key to organizational success. The correlation between...
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...
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...
March 01, 2009
As a research/technology manager, you are being challenged to lead technical professionals to achieve significant innovation. That’s not the same as being a manager or an expert. In this Human Side...
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...
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...
July 01, 2010
You are leading a project urgently needed by your organization. How can you best motivate your team to meet a demanding schedule? Should you offer bonuses if the team meets a deadline? Not according...
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...
November 01, 2010
At intervals throughout the year, chief technology officers (CTOs) of large research and development departments across industries gather for an open exchange of information and an opportunity to...
November 01, 2010
Leaders of five working groups report on the status of their work: Sustainability in R&D; Collaboration Continuum; Business Models for Collaborative Relationships; R&D Leadership Skills/...
July 01, 2010
You are leading a project urgently needed by your organization. How can you best motivate your team to meet a demanding schedule? Should you offer bonuses if the team meets a deadline? Not according...
2003 - 2005 Deliverables Special Interest Session (SIS) November 2005 Description This Working Group studied the impact of the retirement of the baby boomers on technology organizations, as for many...
1997 - 2000 Deliverables Description Objective: Study of how companies have responded to surveys of their employees' satisfaction surveys This subcommittee explored ways that companies responded to...
March 13, 2013
Timeline of training new employees, practical training, follow-up https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentations/22773 Spring 2013
March 21, 2013
Cargill’s Fellowship program, with a step-by-step process of how it is reviewed and awarded https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/485/slide_presentation... Spring 2013