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Community Forum – How are your procurement teams structured?
A: How are your procurement teams structured? Our organization is looking to streamline communication between our R+D staff and procurement teams. We are interested in how other companies divide their procurement teams across regions and how this division impacts planning for future product updates. We are also interested in any best practices that have been […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Foresight, New Product Development, Business Model Innovation
03/17/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How have your budgets changed?
A: How have your innovation and new product development budgets changed? The current economic and inflationary environment, including a possible global recession, creates both challenges and opportunities for companies, R&D groups, and new product development and innovation groups. Over the past few weeks, IRI has reached out to you with questions focused on specific impacts […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Strategic Planning, Finance for R&D, New Product Development
03/10/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How are you monitoring regulatory trends?
A: How are you monitoring emerging regulatory trends? One of our members in the CPG industry is interested in how organizations are staying ahead of the shifting regulatory landscape. They are seeking industry best practices for regulatory intelligence, monitoring, and managing the flow of information and emerging issues/trends. The results from this week’s survey are […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Foresight, Trends, Strategic Planning
03/03/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – Have you implemented a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool?
A: Have you implemented a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool? Our organization is beginning a project to identify and implement a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool. Many different business units across the organization are involved in evaluating potential tools, but I am wondering if there is anything special or unique to consider from an R&D […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Strategic Planning, Tools & Techniques, Portfolio Management
02/17/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How are you managing productivity and team cohesion?
A: How are you managing productivity and team cohesion? IRI and Babson College have teamed up to conduct a longitudinal study on the impact that the coronavirus pandemic is having on R&D and innovation management. To understand these impacts over time, we have been conducting a series of surveys over the past year and are […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Managing Innovation and R&D
09/23/2022
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – Have you held a hybrid event to inspire innovation?
A: Have you held a hybrid event to inspire innovation? Our organization is planning an event to inspire every employee to think about ways to innovate in their role. This includes the team members who are working remotely, and planners are thinking of ways to design a meeting which seamlessly incorporates these virtual participants. The […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Employee Innovation, Ideation, Managing Innovation and R&D
09/09/2022
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – Do you recommend a Voice of the Customer external partner?
A: Do you recommend a Voice of the Customer external partner? Our organization incorporates ‘Voice of Customer’ as part of our innovation execution process. We want to accelerate our efforts by working with external partners to help us obtain potential customer contacts / market experts to gather this data The results from this week’s survey […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Alliances/Collaborations, Customer Insight
07/29/2022
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How do you create visibility into your IP?
A: How do you create visibility into your IP? Our organization doesn’t do a good job tracking our patents in a way that is searchable and usable by our Technical and Commercial teams and we would like to learn about how your organization tackles this issue. In addition, we would like to know how your […]
Survey (Community Forum)
IP Management, Patent
07/22/2022
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – Tell us about your portfolio decision making
Decision making under uncertainty can be a challenging task in portfolio management. We are looking to understand some of the issues with supporting data and tactics for making more valuable portfolio decisions. Please click on the following link to let us know.
Survey (Community Forum)
Portfolio Management, Risk Management, Strategic Planning
10/29/2021
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How do you effectively brainstorm virtually?
Our organization is planning a virtual brainstorming session via Microsoft Teams and would like your suggestions. This session is set up to solve a very technical need, so we have to make sure the session is successful. What has your organization done to make virtual brainstorming sessions successful? Assure all cameras are on so we connect […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Ideation, Knowledge Management, Tools & Techniques, Open Innovation and Contests, Employee Innovation
10/22/2021
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – Tell us about your motivation for ideation
Our organization is evaluating how much time is spent on ideating as well as what are motivational drivers to ideate. See results below:
Survey (Community Forum)
Ideation, New Product Development, Portfolio Management
10/08/2021
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum: What are your current travel and visitor policies?
IRI and Babson College have teamed up to conduct a longitudinal study on the impact that the coronavirus pandemic is having on R&D and innovation management. In order to understand these impacts over time, we are conducting a series of surveys over the next two years, tracking such key issues as return to the office, attrition, travel policies, and training.
Survey (Community Forum)
Managing Innovation and R&D
10/01/2021
Innovation Research Interchange