Skip to main content
IRI logo
  • Join
  • Login
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Join
  • Login
  • Contact
  • Home

Search form

  • Login
  • Create an Account

Main Menu

  • COVID-19 Resources
  • Home
  • About
    • Newsroom
    • Board
    • Awards
    • IRI Mobile
    • Alliances
  • Membership
    • Member Organizations
    • For Members
    • Information for Prospective Members
    • Emeriti Activity Group
  • Events
    • 2021 Event Calendar
    • Past IRI Events
  • SPRING
  • TRACK
    • Search the Learning Center
    • Presentations
    • Compendium of Tools for Innovation Management
  • Collaborate
    • PILOT
    • Networks
    • Community Forum
    • Digital Transformation Community (DXC)
    • Resources
  • Research-Technology Management
    • RTM Archive (must be logged in to view)
    • Reprint Collection

Looking forward to 2021? Check out our events calendar for the year! Start planning now for our upcoming 2021 Virtual Annual Conference, Digital Futures, TRACK, PILOT, SPRING, RTM Brown Bags, CTO Coffee House, Director Coffee House and our exciting innovation webinars.

Learn More

Learning Center

IRI resources assist your day-to-day R&D functions and help in problem solving. Search by keyword, topic, or your R&D role to find tools to help you manage your organization's R&D and innovation process more effectively.


Tools and Techniques

Community Forum - What document management tool do you use?
March 23, 2018
Arkema is in the market for a document management tool that the R&D community can use to store, search and retrieve in-house technical know-how. There seems to be a lot of products on the market...
  • Community Forum
  • IT
  • Management
  • Tools and Techniques
Community Forum - What new tools do your researchers use to do their jobs better & faster?
August 25, 2017
Arkema has an initiative called the "innovation toolbox" where we are tasked with identifying tools or other ways of working to improve our ability to analyze, collaborate, document and communicate...
  • Community Forum
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - What You Should Know About Using Surveys
May 01, 2004
Surveys are commonplace in organizations, with more than 70 percent of U.S. organizations using them regularly (1). R&D managers can use surveys to understand the perceptions, thoughts, feelings...
  • RTM Journal
  • Research
  • Tools and Techniques
2017 Annual Meeting - Embracing Public & Open Source Collaboration Tools
May 09, 2017
Express Learning Enterprises are increasingly moving towards embracing collaboration tools from the public and open-source arenas in order to improve various aspects of their Research and Development...
  • Presentation
  • Leverage External Resources
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Alliances/Collaborations
RTM - Activating Innovation Using Foresight Tools
May 02, 2017
In 280 BC, a Greek general added fighting elephants to his ranks and won two battles against the Romans. But in doing so, he suffered terrible losses. Plutarch quotes him as saying, “If we are...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Trends
  • Tools and Techniques
Brown Bag - Reboot your Approach to Innovation Projects
April 12, 2017
Looking to reboot your approach to innovation projects? Have they failed to achieve the impact or organizational buy-in you had hoped for? Have you experienced misfires with consultants or among your...
  • Audio/Video
  • Management
  • Project Management
  • Tools and Techniques
Community Forum - Benchmarking Industry Best Practices
March 27, 2017
Sonoco is currently in the process of updating dashboard metrics to track progress against innovation goals for the company. We would like to get feedback on what priority metrics your company tracks...
  • Community Forum
  • C-Level
  • Finance
  • Management
  • Increase Return on Investment
  • Metrics/Finance
  • Culture
  • New Product Development
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Process Improvement
Research Remix 2017 - How to Harness Social Analytics
February 23, 2017
There is growing interest in determining whether social media analytics can provide new insight into business performance. But, are these new data sources optimal or added noise for timely decision...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • Management
  • Tools and Techniques
Research Remix 2017 - "Follow the Money” to your Potential Business Partners
February 22, 2017
For the past several years CIMS has been using big data analytics to address the strategic challenges confronting companies. By analyzing the publicly available data residing on the worldwide web we...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • Management
  • Tools and Techniques
Research Remix 2017 - Data-Driven Decision-Making
February 22, 2017
Current computing technologies can help management de-risk business decisions by providing the facts necessary for rational decision-making. The challenge is in framing ambiguous business statements...
  • Presentation
  • Research
  • Management
  • Tools and Techniques
Community Forum - Presenting a Technology Roadmap to Customers
Our organization has a robust technology roadmap process and we are exploring various ways to make the data understandable and relevant to a broad customer set. How has your organization overcome this challenge? In addition, do you have recommendations for how your organization has engaged customers directly in roadmap plans and updates?
  • Community Forum
  • IT
  • Tools and Techniques
Community Forum - Identifying Market Based Solutions
LORD Corporation is seeking input on how other companies identify, develop, and launch market-based solutions. Their need for continued growth is driving teams to re-evaluate how they develop, launch...
  • Community Forum
  • Tools and Techniques
Community Forum - PLM Cost Benchmark
What PLM Costs Should We Expect? We are looking for benchmark costs on implementing a new PLM system for a CPG company that maintains an active catalog of 11,000 products with 300 new product...
  • Community Forum
  • Finance
  • New Business Development
  • New Product Development
  • Project Management
  • Tools and Techniques
Research - Liquid Talent:Tools to Embrace a More Fluid Workforce
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...
  • Research
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Talent Management
  • Organization
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - Applying the Business Excellence Model to a Research Organization
July 01, 2005
What exactly does quality management in research mean? This remains a question frequently asked by managers and staff of industrial research laboratories. Surrounding business functions like...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - Assessing Your Organization's Potential for Value Innovation
March 01, 2005
Organizations must be innovative all across the value chain, not just in R&D, in order to succeed in today’s rapidly changing economic environment. Over the past two years, an Industrial Research...
  • RTM Journal
  • New Business Development
  • Increase Return on Investment
  • Culture
  • New Product Development
  • Tools and Techniques

Pages

  • «
  • ‹
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • ›
  • »
IRI Logo

Innovation Research Interchange
PO Box 13968
Arlington, VA 22219 USA
(703) 647-2580
information@iriweb.org

Follow Us
  • Linked In
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • YouTube
  • Flickr

Visit the IRI Career Center

Stay Connected

© Innovation Research Interchange
Formerly the Industrial Research Institute
Code of Conduct
Participation Principles
Privacy Policy

Refine by...