July 12, 2018
Breakout Session This project postulates that at a strategic level, R&D practitioners would benefit from better resources for identifying failing projects and for making the decision on whether...
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March 01, 2018
Available tools and frameworks can help companies ensure that sustainability is embedded as a fundamental building block of new product development. Increasingly, organizations are embedding...
October 10, 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 "Strategic Challenges in...
September 17, 2017
This special issue is focused on digitalization and the wave of change it’s bringing to R&D, both in how research is done and in how it’s managed. But that wave won’t stop at R&D; it will...
September 17, 2017
This study explores the concept of big data and whether, and to what extent, it might affect R&D management in the future. Through extensive discussions to dissect the nature of big data and to...
September 17, 2017
Virtual experimentation and simulation—the use of mathematical models and computer-based simulations to replicate the behavior and performance of physical systems and traditional experiments—has been...
September 17, 2017
Digitalization and Its Implications for R&D Management is an IRI Research platform established to consider the likely impacts of three distinct sets of digitalization technologies—virtual...
September 17, 2017
As part of its research program, the Industrial Research Institute (IRI) undertakes research platforms—strategic research projects focused on big questions and emerging issues in R&D management...
September 17, 2017
In mid-2015, the Industrial Research Institute launched an 18-month research effort to investigate the effects of digitalization on R&D management. That initiative included three lines of inquiry...
September 17, 2017
This is an optimistic issue. In it, you will read about a wide variety of ways in which digitalization will improve the practice of R&D. Ted Farrington, in his summary article, “On the Impact of...
July 01, 2017
A wealth of information and research is available about business leadership in general and its importance, but much less attention has been given to the nature of R&D leadership specifically...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management Research Initiative This project is looking to determine key elements of an early career recruitment and development experience...
May 10, 2017
IRI Research Project Lean Start-Up is a new process for product development that can enhance the stage gate process and is more suitable for developing products when there is high uncertainty in the...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project The goal of this ROR is to discover best practices for establishing a long-term vision for R&D that is tied to business strategies and how to use this vision to influence the...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project: Strategic Challenges in R&D Management Research Initiative Previously the IRI completed a study to evaluate how the management of science and technology would change by the...
May 16, 2017
IRI Research Project: Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management Research Initiative. The roles in innovation and R&D will be explored and the ways in which individuals can move between...