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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.


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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
RTM-Innovation by the Side Door
September 01, 2007
Mr. Darcy is the perfect dog: a two-year-old male Black Lab with boundless happy energy. He camps out by the glass kitchen door, and when a squirrel walks by outside, he snaps to attention and barks...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - How "Tech Mining" Can Enhance R&D Management
March 01, 2007
Reflect back briefly on what was considered good manufacturing management circa 1960 and what we expect today. Prior to the quality movement, manufacturing operations were based heavily on intuition...
  • RTM Journal
  • Legal
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  • Identify New Business Opportunities
  • Portfolio Management
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  • Tools and Techniques
Member Summit 2016 - Using People Analytics to Accelerate Innovation
October 10, 2016
Techniques for Data-Driven R&D Talent Management R&D organizations depend on the right mix of human talent to drive innovation. But the alchemy involved in aligning individuals and teams for...
  • Presentation
  • External Relations
  • Human Resources
  • Management
  • Talent Management
  • Tools and Techniques
Member Summit 2016 - Session Abstracts
Opening Keynote: Driving Motorola Solutions’ Digital Transformation with Innovation through Data Eduardo Conrado, Executive Vice President, Strategy & Innovation Office Paul Steinberg, Senior...
  • Featured
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  • Management
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  • Research
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  • Motorola
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  • Human Capital Management
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  • John Deere
  • Hershey
  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • FM Global
  • RTI International
RTM- Identify Your Innovation Enablers and Inhibitors
November 01, 2008
Alcan Global Pharmaceutical Packaging, Milliken & Co. and Solvay Advanced Polymers have used the Value Innovation Potential Assessment Tool to identify their Value Innovation enablers and...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Increase Return on Investment
  • Culture
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - Mobilizing and R&D Organization through Strategy Cascading
September 01, 2008
Cascading business strategy down into an R&D organization is widely used to drive strategy into the organization and align researchers and developers behind the organization’s strategy. However,...
  • RTM Journal
  • C-Level
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - Change: Embrace It, Don't Deny It
July 01, 2008
Change midstream in a product development project often means cost and budget overruns, schedule delays and product defects. Understandably, managers dislike change and have installed systems, such...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Commercialize New Technology
  • New Product Development
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - Value Roadmapping
September 01, 2009
Technology managers have a wide range of methods and tools at their disposal for deciding whether to invest in early-stage technologies. However, these techniques are mostly focused on quantitative...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Strategic Planning
  • Tools and Techniques
RTM - Supporting Decision Makers with Fuzzy Cognitive Maps
May 01, 2009
Fuzzy Cognitive Maps are fuzzy graph structures that represent causal reasoning. This article proposes a means of building and using such maps to support the managers as well as analysts of R&D...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Project Management
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Portfolio Management
RTM- How Innovation Management Techniques Support an Open Innovation Strategy
May 01, 2010
How to achieve a sustained competitive advantage that ensures long-term survival is a major concern for managers everywhere, but even more so for those in smaller firms, which may have more...
  • RTM Journal
  • Management
  • Open Innovation
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Strategic Planning
Resources
IRI2038 Futures Study Gain provocative insights into how futures trends, developments, and events impact the art and science of research and technology management over the next 25 years. Available in...
  • Tools and Techniques
  • R&D Toolkit
  • R&D Resources
Value Innovation III
2003 - 2005 Deliverables Report out , November 2003 Research-Technology Management Article, Volume 48, Issue 2, 2005 Description This team further evaluated the Value IQ tool to assess an...
  • Research
  • IRI Research
  • Tools and Techniques
  • Research Archive
Monthly Brown Bag - The Influence of Collaborative IT Tools on NPD
Friday April 01, 2016 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Better understand how tools such as social networking and microblogging platforms are being used in NPD and what influence they have on NPD outcomes.
  • Event
  • IT
  • New Product Development
  • Tools and Techniques
Winter Meeting 2011 - Sustainability in R&D
February 28, 2011
Stage: Converting to a non project entity The working group will determine how to effectively incorporate sustainability into R&D by sharing experiences and best practices on the use of tools to...
  • Presentation
  • Sustainability
  • Tools and Techniques
  • New Product Development
Winter Meeting 2012 - Alignment of a Company's Technology Portfolio with Business Strategy
February 28, 2012
This subject was studied by the group “Technology and Business Integration,” culminating in a paper published in RTM in 2004. The subject was studied because many members felt that their technology...
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  • Think and Act Strategically
  • Tools and Techniques
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