The Millennial Challenge: Generational Leadership Expectations
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President, and Greg Holden, Business Writer Today’s business executives are still adjusting to the behavior of the rising generation of leaders. Whether called “Gen Y’ers,”...
View ArticleThe Secret to Developing Technological Innovation Managers
By Ed Bernstein, IRI President Do technology innovation managers have access to equal professional development as other managers? I was confronted with this question at a conference of innovation...
View ArticleInnovation is Change Management
By Jim Euchner, RTM Editor-in-Chief It is perhaps a tautology to say that innovation is change management. By definition, innovation is giving something new to the world, and accepting something new...
View ArticleInnovation Portfolio Management
By Scott Mathews, Technical Fellow in the Chief Engineer’s office at Boeing Research and Technology and co–guest editor of this special issue of RTM. It is difficult to understand why doing portfolio...
View ArticleInnovation Culture and Open Space Meetings
By Jim Euchner, VP of Global Innovation at Goodyear and Editor-in-Chief of Research-Technology Management (RTM) Everyone files out of the meeting room. The senior R&D leadership team has just...
View ArticleOccupational Hazards
By Jim Euchner, VP of Global Innovation, Goodyear, and RTM Editor-in-Chief A career in R&D is an interesting one. It offers the opportunity for continuous learning, the chance to work with...
View ArticleOpportunity Finding
By Jim Euchner, Editor-in-Chief, Research-Technology Management Journal “The medium is the message.” – Marshall McLuhan Marshall McLuhan theorized that every new technology (or...
View ArticleShaping Innovation Success
By Jim Euchner. Is recognizing profitable ideas in business more like picking an NCAA March Madness bracket or more like managing a team to victory? One is about picking winners, based on knowledge,...
View ArticleWhich Box Are You In?
By Jim Euchner, Editor-in-Chief, RTM Constraints are funny things. They can box you in, or they can inspire you. A Shakespearean sonnet is constrained by the dimensions of its form: 14 lines, iambic...
View ArticleHow Much is Enough?
Investment in R&D is critical for the long-term viability of industrial companies. But how much R&D is enough? It’s a question most CTOs face as they prepare budgets for another fiscal year....
View ArticleFrom the Archives: “Leadership for Change”
Evolutionary change requires continuing education to remain effective in any field. However, the accelerating rate of technological change and its sweeping impact on society will affect every field and...
View ArticleHere’s How to Keep Your Top Technical Talent from Leaving
Retaining top technical talent is a challenge for organizations everywhere. According to the Industrial Research Institute’s (IRI) annual R&D trends surveys, which ask R&D managers to identify...
View ArticleHow is Your Organization Training Innovators?
By Tim Michaelis, PhD Candidate, NC State University, Research Associate, Center for Innovation Management Studies (tlmichae@ncsu.edu) According to 1,500 global innovation executives, interviewed by...
View ArticleManaging Culturally Diverse Teams
When French company Groupe Bull prepared to merge with American firm Zenith Data Systems, American and French engineers working for Bull discussed the difficulties of working with each other. As the...
View ArticleBuilding a Culture of Innovation
By Jim Euchner, VP, Global Innovation, Goodyear, and RTM Editor-in-Chief People will work long hours, climb over steep obstacles, and endure a lot of frustration to innovate if they believe they have a...
View ArticleHow Do You Reward Innovators?
By Greg Holden, Business Writer & Social Media Manager, IRI In his keynote address at an IRI Annual Meeting, Bernie Meyerson, Chief Innovation Officer at IBM, said “the talented techies are the...
View ArticleFailing Brilliantly
By Greg Holden, Business Writer & Social Media Manager, IRI The mantra “fail fast, fail often” has almost become cliché in industry, yet it is a concept that innovation leaders still struggle to...
View ArticleA New IRI for the Future of Innovation
by Edward Bernstein, IRI president; published in RTM, Vol 60, 6 Five years ago, IRI celebrated its 75th anniversary by looking back over the accomplishments of the Institute and its members and...
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