Building a Future-Ready Workforce

Building a future-ready workforce is a growing priority for innovation leaders as AI and disruption continue to reshape how work gets done. Developing cross-functional teams that can adapt, collaborate, and effectively leverage AI is essential for sustaining innovation in an increasingly complex environment. At the same time, next-generation upskilling—paired with strong knowledge capture and distribution—ensures critical expertise is retained, shared, and scaled, empowering organizations to stay agile and competitive over the long term.

IRI has and continues to address these issues in whitepapers, video presentations, community forum surveys, RTM journal articles, and webinar recordings, accessible through our Resource Center.

Transformational:

Knowledge Management and Transfer Evolution: Best Practices and Caterpillar’s Trailblazing Approach (Knowledge compendium)

Innovative Upskilling: How Eastman and A. O. Smith Are Shaping Workforce Development (IRI Report)

Failing Well (RTM journal article)

Reinventing R&D Knowledge Access & Management with AI (Podcast)

Equipping Innovation Teams for Tech-Enabled Growth (IRI Briefing)

What Librarian Tool Do You Use for R&D Knowledge? (Community Forum)

Growth:

A Trust Paradox May Limit the Application of Al-Generated Knowledge (RTM journal article)

DuPont’s Spark Digital Academy (Case study)

Strategies to Enhance Knowledge Transfer: Lessons from a Multinational Corporation (RTM journal article)

From Engineers to Programmers – How Porsche is Building Internal Capabilities for Digital Transformation (Video presentation)