May 24, 2016
The Big Data project is part of IRI’s strategic research platform on Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. Their goal is to answer the following research questions: How will Big...
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May 24, 2016
The Collaboration project is part of IRI’s strategic research platform on Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. During this interactive session participants are invited to...
May 02, 2016
OVERVIEW: Many companies see environmental sustainability as a cost--a legal and social obligation requiring investments that may never be recovered--rather than as an opportunity. However,...
The Big Data project is one focus area of the IRI study “Digitalization and its Implications for R&D Management. This project was kicked off in early 2015 and will be completed in October 2016. This document is the first deliverable in the project, providing an introduction to the topic and a framework for understanding its relevance to IRI members. The Big Data Primer document is available to IRI members only.
January 2016 - October 2017 Deliverables Member Summit 2017 Report Out Value Proposition This research effort was focused on the product design implications of mass customization on manufacturers/...
2008 - 2010 This group considered how sustainability may be effectively incorporated into R&D. The goals were to identify best practices for the use of sustainability assessments, establish...
2013 - 2015 Deliverables Report out, Member Summit 2015 Description This ROR explored what features of organizational design or social networking help employees maintain relationships with weak ties...
(Study topics of current interest by a small group meeting several times for three days) Two IRGs, composed of 15 to 20 persons each, were convened in 1993 and 1994, in cooperation with CIMS, to...
(Study techniques for translating ideas into new R&D projects) This project began with a Special Interest Session at the 1983 IRI Annual Meeting, during which four models for idea management were...
(Study the impact on R&D of globalization of competition, markets, science, and technology) This study was conducted in cooperation with CIMS and MIT, beginning with a survey of current practice...
(Study influence of organizational, operational,and process variables on innovation) This subcommittee obtained financial support from NSF for a proposal from the University of Cincinnati to identify...
(Prepare a syllabus for continuing education of R&D professionals in their early years of transition from academia to industry) The Personnel Policies and Practices Subcommittee extended its work...
(Develop techniques for indicating the risks inherent in R&D to general management) Conclusions of a paper on risk in the food industry, presented at the 1979 IRI Fall Meeting and published in RM...
(Identify the most successful practices of technology-intensive firms and provide recommendations for adoption) A Holland-Award-winning paper was published on this topic in RTM during 1996. The paper...
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...
1998 - 2001 Deliverables Presentation in a Special Interest Session at the 2001 IRI Annual Meeting. Description Objective: develop a technique to help align a company's technology portfolio and its...