ROR WORKING GROUPS
Collaboration Continuum (Ideation stage)
Knowledge is quickly becoming a more powerful resource than labor, land, or capital. Enterprise 2.0 technologies now exist to support and enhance the continuum of collaboration and knowledge sharing. This working group will explore how the use of various Enterprise 2.0 and web tools, such as Knowledge Management Systems, SharePoint and wikis, can leverage a company’s accessibility to and growth of knowledge capital to improve their R&D operations.
IRI Members Involved Include: Sandia Lab, U.S. Army Lab, and Kellogg
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Breakthrough Innovation Dilemmas (#08-04)
Existing literature has identified there are essentially 5 dilemmas companies must overcome to be successful at breakthrough innovation. Through colleague exchange and applied case studies, this working group will explore how companies have dealt with the challenges of financial hurtles, paradoxical leadership, separation of BUs within the organization, team diversity, and taking a more iterative approach. Both successes and failures will be examined in an effort to compile best practices for breakthrough innovation.
IRI Members Involved Include: Csiro, Eaton, and Ashland
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Sustainability in R&D (#08-03)
This working group will determine what are the critical elements of sustainability and develop / clarify how R&D will interact with other functions to address sustainability opportunities and challenges.
IRI Members Involved Include: Battelle and Schneider Electric
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Gender Diversity in Technology Leadership (#08-02)
Seeks to establish current best practices within IRI companies to involve, develop, advance, and retain female leaders in technology organizations. Identify progress that IRI companies have made to improve their performance in this area. Identify problems IRI companies are facing that may impede progress in this arena.
IRI Members Involved Include: Air Products, Battelle, and IRI Emeriti
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Leadership Skills and Styles (#08-01)
Examines how leadership skills and styles may be different in the technical (R&D) community and leverage those attributes to become stronger, more effective leaders.
IRI Members Involved Include: Ceramatec, Energizer, SABIC, and IRI Emeriti
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"Level 5" Innovation Practices (#07-05)
This working group will leverage the results from recently completed subcommittee projects to define some of the leading edge "Level 5" practices (examples of excellence in Innovation) used to deliver Innovative product and services with respect to leadership (modeling teamwork, reward systems), processes/tools (systematic idea-generation, qualitative methods to discover unmet needs), and culture/people (employee creativity time, balancing marketing and technology idea).
IRI Members Involved Include: Energizer, Boeing, and DSM
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IP in Open Innovation (#07-04)
The purpose of this working group is to prepare a thorough, clear and fair agreement on IP rights from collaboration in a reasonable time and provide better practices (both a process and tools) for developing the IP portion of co-development agreements to reflect the maturity level of the technology.
IRI Members Involved Include: Praxair, Intellectual Assets, and Kellogg
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R&D "Lab" of the Future (#07-03)
Changing technology (science and technology), global change (culture and economic), climate change (environmental and corporate)... Do we need to worry about this now? How do we prepare for the future? This is an important, universal issue across all industries. This working group seeks to extract multidisciplinary ideas of what the future might "look like" and collaborate on how industry, as a whole, may prepare for the future ahead.
IRI Members Involved Include: NASA Langley and Kraft Foods
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Innovation Portfolio Management (#07-02)
The purpose of this working group is to improve the productivity of the innovation pipeline through effective portfolio management practices.
IRI Members Involved Include: Weyerhaeuser and Boeing
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Managing Technology Transfer (#07-01)
The objective of this working group is to understand how to accelerate the innovation process; i.e., the process from academic/research discovery (invention) to completed transfer into industry for subsequent utilization and/or commercialization.
IRI Members Involved Include: Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL). and Roche Diagnostics
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Leveraging Thought Diversity to Drive Innovation in Global Companies # (06-02)
Group diversity is a two-edged sword; it can increase creativity and innovation but unmanaged, it decreases cohesion and teamwork. This working group explores the questions: With diversity characterizing today's complex innovation teams, how do teams increase the positives and avoid the negatives? How can active management of thought diversity create a reliable source of innovation? The ultimate objective is to identify best practices of leveraging thought diversity to drive global innovation.
IRI Members Involved Include: Kraft Foods and Motorola
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Measuring R&D Effectiveness # (05-02)
This working group is examining how R&D effectiveness is currently measured. The history of metrics used by R&D leaders will be reviewed. The group's objective is to determine what metrics are currently being used by companies (if any), how they are used (within R&D, at the company level), how they are collected, what the linkage is to corporate and business strategy, and whether they are historically or future focused. Key deliverables of the team will be an updated Technology Value Pyramid on the IRI website and a publication on the team's findings and recommendations.
IRI Members Involved Include: BASF and Sasol North America
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For more information or if you or a colleague are interested in participating in a working group, please contact Kimberly Williams, Special Projects Manager-Research, at williams@iriinc.org or 703-647-2580.
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