News & Press Releases

2019 Wrap Up

By Shareq RashidJanuary 6, 2020

The following is a collection of all reports, presentations, and articles produced by IRI programs in 2019. Make sure you are logged in to view all of the content. If you do not know your IRIweb username or password, please contact Erika Toman.
 

PILOT

IRI’s PILOT program is designed to help IRI members solve complex challenges. Below are 2019 findings from PILOT project teams.
 
Brilliant Failures (presentation)
 
 

Digital Transformation Community (DXC)

The DXC helps guide companies who are going through Digital Transformation through peer reports, presentations and discussions. Please see the Digital Futures Conference in the Events section below for more on Digital Transformation.
 
 
 

Research-Technology Management (RTM)

RTM is IRI’s peer reviewed journal about innovation management, by practioners, for practitioners.
 
Innovation Archeology
Blockchain and the Internet of Value
Today’s Innovation Leaders
What Machine Learning Can Learn from Foresight A Human-Centered Approach
A Bibliometric Study of Research-Technology Management, 1998–201
Leave Your Varsity Letter Jacket at Home
Questions and Answers from IRI’s Members
In Defense of Bureaucracy
Managing the Evolution of Innovation
 
STEMM Wave Washes Up on Congress
Europe’s Quantum Flagship Sets Sale
Can Blockchain Replace the Smart Grid
Converging Innovations Nourish Growth of Indoor Farming
Problem Framing
Making Innovation Work in Your Corporate Context: an Interview with Gary Pisano
2019 R&D Trends Forecast
The Role of Psychological Safety in Implementing Agile Methods across Cultures
Realizing the Value of Industry-University Innovation Alliances
The Emergent Possible
Innovation Needs the Liberal Arts
Innovation from the Battlefield to the Boardroom: Peter Newell
 
The Growing German-Chinese Tech Divide
Autonomous Trucks Creating New Freight Landscape
Plentiful Hydrogen Emerges from the Vapor
Little ai, Big AI—Good AI, Bad AI
What Has Gone Wrong with the Internet, and How We Can Fix It
Peering into the Future of Intelligent Systems
From Intelligent Systems to Intelligent Organizations
Five Lessons for Applying Machine Learning
Surfing the Hype Cycle to Infinity and Beyond
The Intelligent Decision
The Road to Artificial General Intelligence
Scenario Planning at Shell: Cho Kong
 
Europe’s Drive to Tame Data Wild West
Destination Moon, Half Century after Apollo 11
Planning for a Hydrogen Economy
Smart Fabrics Help Bring on a New Industrial Revolutio
Innovation & Resilience
Business Model Innovation: an Interview with Alex Osterwalder
The Role of Timing in the Business Model Evolution of Spinoffs
Unmasking Smart Capital
Managing Emerging (Mis)Alignments in Data-Driven Servitization
Intelligent Systems: the Big Picture
Should Accounting be the Language of Business?
Questions & Answers from IRI’s Members
The Future of Fintech
Digital Acceleration: Dayan Anandappa
 
Newly Minted MDs Put Startups Before Practice
The Bright and Dark Sides of Electrified Roads
Technological Magic with Shape-Shifting Materials
Portable and Wearable Tech Expected to Upend Global Health Car
Dare to Retire the Organizational Bureaucracy
Distributed Teams—Challenges and Opportunities
Designing for Behavior Change—New Models and Moral Issues
Agile Transformation at LEGO Group
A New Path Toward a Hybrid Model
Using Lean Startup to Power Organizational Transformation
Making Design Thinking Work
Should Accounting be the Language of Business?
How Far to Look Ahead?
Agile Management in Product Development
Making Sustainable Tech Economic
 
Getting the Best out of Academic-Industrial Collaborations
Europe Powers Up on Clean Energy
Breaking the Battery Bottleneck
The Writing is on the Wall for Artificial Intelligenc
Presented to Anita Friis Sommer & Bob Cooper
When Physical Meets Digital
The New Geography of Innovation
How Technology, Big Data, and Systems Approaches are Transforming Medicine
Tools for Transformation: Michelin’s Digital Journey
Yes…And: Making Lean Startup Work in Large Organizations
The Technology Fallacy: People are the Real Key to Digital Transformation
Why Is There Only One “Machine Learning First” Company?
Defining the Tipping Point
A Career in Three Acts: Prith Banerjee
 
 

Event Presentations

Annual Conference (April 29-May 2, 2019)
As Billions of Consumers Go Digital, Is Your Company Falling Behind?
The Technology Fallacy — How the People are the Real Key to Digital Transformation
From Biologically Inspired Robots to Collaborative Manufacturing Systems
2019 Holland Award: Agile-Stage-Gate for Manufacturers
2019 IRI Medalist: How Technology, Big Data, and Systems Approaches are Transforming 21st Century Healthcare
TIM Talks – Your Roadmap: Watch where you’re going (and not where you’ve been)
TIM Talks – Staying on top of Emerging Technologies
TIM Talks – The Marriage of Lean Start-up and Waterfall: at the Nexus of Digital and Physical
Business Model Innovation Requires A New Code: The Transformative Capacity of Firm-Specific Language
PILOT Report: Brilliant Failures
Lean Startup in Large Organizations
Digitally Integrated Product Development – IoT Enabled Generative Design, Automated PLM & Additive Manufacturing
Digitalization of R&D at BASF
Creating a Project Course Where Sponsoring Companies & Students Both Win
Public-Private Partnerships are the Pot Luck Dinners of Smart City Development
Bringing Data Science into the Innovation Decision Journey
Applying Industrial IoT and Advanced Analytics to Oil and Gas Production
Envisioning the Future of Intelligent Systems
Succeeding at Breakthrough Innovation
Entegris’ 5-year IRI Journey – Stage-Gate & Intelligent Systems
Shifting Your Thinking from Physical to Digital
Implementing Integrated Innovation into Your Product Development
Collaborate to Innovate Better? When Partner Diversity Leads to Breakthroughs
Rethink the Rink: A Collaboration to Improve Hockey Safety
John Deere’s Autonomous Vehicle Projects
Linking Digital Ideas to Strategic Value using IdeaStorm, an Interactive Card Game
Transformative Applications of AI
Formulating and securing funding for long-term R&D Strategy
Self-Driving Cars and the Future of People Movement
The Digital Movement of Physical Products
The International Space Station and Technology Innovation When Your Life Depends Upon It
The Digital Transformation Community
 
Digital Futures (October 14-16, 2019) – slides only
KEYNOTE: The “Digital First” Maturity Framework
PANEL: Digital Talent
Digital Partnerships
Digital Organizing
TIM Talk: Why Digital Transformation Matters to Hyland
Digital Partnerships
Digital Organizing
Digital Enablers
Plenary: Digital Value Creation
PANEL: Digital Process Innovation
KEYNOTE: Why Digital Strategies Fail
Digital Enablers
Digital Talent
TIM Talk – IoT Evolved: The Human Multiplier
Digital Enablers
PANEL: Digital Talent
Digital Partnerships
PANEL: Digital Leadership
PANEL: Digital Operations
 
The Business of Innovation Conference (October 28-30, 2019) – video only
IRI and Business Model Innovation
Building New Strategic Verticals
Innovation at Boeing
Panel: Innovation Culture Leveraging the Entrepreneurial Mindset
The Business of Innovation
The Role of Foundational Research in Collaborative Innovation
Connecting Global Supply, Demand & Capital
Radical Innovation through Internal and External Corporate Venturing
The ecoDemonstrator Program at Boeing
Jeppesen: a Case Study in Digital Transformation & Organizational Ambidexterity
Tips for Managing Open Innovation Challenges
Fostering Innovation at Boston Scientific
EVTOL Cabin Demonstrator Collaboration
Innovation Ecosystem & Open Collaboration: Successful Models from Around the World
What Managers Can Learn From Accelerators
Preparing a Tire Company for the Future of Mobility – Goodyear Case Study
 
 

Community Forum Questions & Answers

Our community forum helps answer quick questions from members in a survey format. Below are questions and answers from 2019.
 
 
 

First Friday Brown Bag Lunch Webinars 

On the first Friday of every month, we invite IRI members to virtually sit down with us to hear presentations from and ask questions of RTM authors and other invited guests. Below are recordings of each session we held in 2019.