January 01, 2019
A bibliometric study of Research-Technology Management (RTM), conducted for the 20-year period 1998–2017,examined citations, authors, industry sectors, and topics for 550 articles published during...
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New Product Development
July 13, 2018
Breakout Session We’ll take a deep dive into how brand behavior mapping helped a billion dollar whiskey company develop a strategy to recapture the bourbon millennial. In this interactive session, we...
July 13, 2018
Breakout Session The Institute for Advanced Composite Manufacturing Innovation is a DOE-sponsored consortium focused on accelerating the commercialization of carbon fiber composites. In 2017, Ashland...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Chantrelle Nielsen tells the story of how her startup pioneered a new market for a dataset that had never been use before – signals produced as a byproduct of knowledge worker...
July 12, 2018
Express Session Conceptually, Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs) provide a linear map of technology evolution, which recent work reveals to be in many ways a nonlinear process. TRLs also tend to be...
July 12, 2018
Express Session Lean thinking has revolutionized manufacturing around the world but few companies have been successful in applying the principles to a product development or innovation creation...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session We can view innovation like a blindfolded bow hunter, with an endless supply of ideas in his quiver that he hurls in random directions hoping to strike game. Or, we could determine...
July 12, 2018
Breakout Session Tools and techniques fast growing companies are using to launch new software products in under 90 days. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/1171/video_presentatio...
June 05, 2018
Design for service is critical to Rolls-Royce’s Advanced Services Transformation Roadmap. Harrison, the company’s chief of life cycle engineering, will outline how Rolls-Royce is integrating a unique...
March 09, 2018
Companies often use new product sales (sometimes referred to as new product vitality) as a measure of R&D effectiveness. This metric is often reported as the ratio of new product sales (sales...
Friday May 04, 2018 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Join authors as they discuss Goodyear's experience with business experiments and gain insights into how experiments can work in a large corporation that makes physical things.
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...
March 01, 2018
Validating New Business Models Well-designed business experiments can help validate assumptions and reduce risk associated with new business models. Breakthrough innovation inside established...
March 08, 2018
Changing the Way New Products Are Developed Integrating Agile project management methods into a Stage-Gate system offers both opportunities and challenges. Agile development methods borrowed from the...
March 08, 2018
The principles of lean manufacturing have increasingly been adapted to create practices for lean innovation. The common elements of such systems in practice are a relentless focus on the customer;...
December 08, 2017
Setting NPD priorities is a critical element of managing a portfolio for new products. Once the priorities are set the next big challenge is often responding to those priorities. We would like to...