2005 - 2006 Deliverables Report out Annual Meeting 2007 Aligning Marketing and Technology to Drive Innovation , RTM, Volume 52, Issue 5, 2009 Description Being first to market with advanced...
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New Product Development
July 09, 2010
Join Blake Emery, Director , Differentiation Strategy, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, to discuss “ Innovation on the 787 Dreamliner.†Blake’s session during the 2010 IRI Annual Meeting in May was very...
September 03, 2010
Join authors Don Clausing and Maurice Holmes to discuss “Technology Readiness ,†published in the July-August 2010 issue of Research-Technology Management. Learn how to avoid wasted time,...
April 11, 2011
Join Scott Mathews, Boeing Technical Fellow and technical lead for the Business Engineering initiative, Boeing, Inc. , to discuss “Innovation Portfolio Architecture,†published in the November-...
December 02, 2011
Prakash Balan of NSF will describe their Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and the criteria that NSF uses to identify start-ups with high potential. https://www.pathlms.com/iri-...
March 02, 2012
Join authors Alan MacCormack, Harvard Business School, and Bill Crandall, Clarify LLC to discuss how to better align the design of your development process to the specific aims of individual projects...
February 01, 2013
Dave Edwards gives an encore performance of his popular Annual Meeting 2012 presentation " Innovation Adventures Beyond the Core." https://www.pathlms.com/iri-learningcenter/events/401/...
January 11, 2016
Progress in any field happens in fits and starts. That’s as true in innovation as anywhere else. Often, a best practice emerges because it has demonstrated the potential to significantly improve a...
January 11, 2016
OVERVIEW: Leading firms are now beginning to integrate elements of the Agile IT product development method into their traditional gating processes to develop physical products. The trend began first...
July 12, 2013
Learn how LEGO engaged with user communities to create new products. Authors Yun Mi Antorini and Albert M. Muniz, Jr. discuss “The Benefits and Challenges of Collaborating with User Communities,â€...
September 06, 2013
The assessment of early-stage technologies is a critical but often overlooked step common to R&D, new product development, and open innovation processes. Assessment processes are necessary for...
January 10, 2014
Join Bob Cooper to take a look at what leading firms are doing to move beyond their current idea-to-launch methodology and how to integrate these practices into a next-generation system. Learn how...
February 24, 2013
An homage to IRI's founding, marking the 75 th anniversary of the day IRI was created. http://iriwebblog.org/2013/02/25/seventy-five-years-ago-today/
November 16, 2015
A look at some of the ways large organizations fail to successfully implement lean startup. http://iriwebblog.org/2015/11/16/why-iri-members-struggle-with-lean-startup-in-their-companies/
April 10, 2015
Dr. Anita Friis Sommer illustrates how combining a conventional Stage-Gate process with elements of Agile development can provide a more flexible, responsive product development process. https://www...
October 02, 2015
Join us for an interactive session using anchored scale ratings to show you where your group stands with respect to others. Bill Weber and John Bacon, iP2Biz, offer practical tips to deal with issues...