2017 Research Remix

- When:
- Wednesday February 22, 2017 – Friday February 24, 2017
- Where:
- Research Triangle Park, NC
The ROR Winter Meeting is now the Research Remix!
Online Registration | Registration Form.pdf
IRI will be partnering with NC State University's Center for Innovation Management Studies (CIMS) to bring you the most cutting edge research in R&D management.
During the Research Remix, attendees will:
- Deep dive into key challenges identified by practitioners, including: strategic talent management, adding sustainability to the NPD toolbox, and design for mass customization.
- Learn about cutting edge research into innovation management coming from academia: data-driven decision making and bioinformatics.
- Tour NC State's Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics
Venue
Archie K. Davis Conference Center
12 Davis Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
Agenda (subject to change)
Day 1 – February 22nd
8:00 - 8:30am |
Breakfast |
8:30 – 8:45am |
Welcome and introduction |
8:45 – 9:30am |
Ms. Liz Rooks, President/CEO, Research Triangle Park |
9:30 – 10:30am |
Recruiting and Retaining Early Career Technical Talent IRI Research Project; Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management research initiative This project is looking to determine key elements of an early career development experience that maximizes the mutual benefit for the employee and employer and enhances retention of top talent. The project is working to:
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10:30 – 11:00am |
Break |
11:00am – 12:00pm |
Data-Driven Decision-Making Current computing technologies can help management de-risk business decisions by providing the facts necessary for rational decision-making. The challenge is in framing ambiguous business statements as a series of incremental unambiguous actions that can be supported by data aggregation and sense-making. Let the person manage ambiguity while the machine collects facts.
Dr. Michael Kowolenko, Principal Research Scholar, NC State University
Dr. Michael Kowolenko, Ph.D. is currently the Director of the Institute of Next Generation Computing and Industry Fellow in the Center of Innovation Management Studies, Research Professor in the Department of Computer Science at North Carolina State University, and Director of the Institute Next Generation IT Systems. His research and teaching activities focus on models of integrating data analytics in the area of critical thinking and decision-making. Prior to joining NCSU, Dr. Kowolenko was a senior executive in the pharmaceutical industry where his last position was as Senior Vice-President of Technical Operations and Product Supply in Wyeth’s Biotechnology and Vaccine Division. He has consulted with and instructed multiple companies and government agencies in the use of analytics in business decision making. |
12:00 – 1:00pm |
Lunch |
1:00 – 2:00pm |
Product Design for Mass Customization IRI Research Project Customer demand for individually configured and customized products is on the rise across all industries. Companies are faced with the challenge of maintaining cost and quality while producing customized products with heightened response to individual customer needs. This project is using a breadth of approaches and the maturity of IRI members (and beyond) to determine best practices that achieve design for customization while identifying common pitfalls. The objective of the project is to understand the design implications of mass customization on manufacturers/producers by answering the following questions:
Team members: Charlie Wartgow, Harley-Davidson; Mark Zhuravel, TCS; Rob Williams, Boeing; Cole Harris, Harley Davidson; Mike Alstrin, Harley Davidson; Pushpa Manukonda, Deere & Co.; Kent Crawford, Schneider Electric; Tim Simpson, Penn State (SME) |
2:00 – 2:45pm |
The domestic dog. Is our best friend also our closest biomedical ally in the fight against cancer? Dr. Matthew Breen, Oscar J. Fletcher Distinguished Professor, Comparative Oncology Genetics |
2:45 – 3:15pm |
Break |
3:15 – 4:15pm |
Adding Sustainability to the NPD Toolbox IRI Research Project This project aims to overcome the gap between a high level view on the importance of sustainability to a “how to do it” approach to integrating sustainability into the NPD process. The team has used the literature and a brief survey to help identify examples of success and failure and why.
This has been followed by select interviews with companies in different business cases and in different phases of the sustainability model to identify what worked, what didn’t, and ultimately to propose tools for best practices and check lists to help companies successfully integrate sustainability into their NPD processes.
Team members: Debbie Kalish, Ingersoll Rand; John Taylor, Schneider Electric; Sue Burek, Newell Rubbermaid; Larry Schwartz, IP Business-Tech Solutions (SME) |
4:15 – 5:00pm |
Project Ideation IRI Research depends on members for feedback on what challenges they are facing in their roles and therefore what research studies IRI should undertake to tackle those challenges. Attendees will discuss their challenges and work with facilitators to create research questions for further study. |
5:00 – 6:00pm |
Hearty Reception – Hosted by |
Day 2 – February 23rd
8:00 - 8:30am |
Breakfast |
8:30 – 9:15am |
”Follow the Money” to your Potential Business Partners For the past several years CIMS has been using big data analytics to address the strategic challenges confronting companies. By analyzing the publicly available data residing on the worldwide web we have been able to answer such strategic questions as:
Paul Mugge, Professor of Innovation and Executive Director of CIMS
Mr. Paul Mugge is an Innovation Professor and Executive Director for Center of Innovation Management Studies at NC State University. He spent more than 35 years developing products and services for IBM. His past experience working in the product development field taught him that the way products are developed is more than “Good Engineering.” Innovation is the result of informed, cross-disciplinary teams working toward a common purpose and supported with world class processes and tools. Mugge spearheaded the task force that created the ThinkPad personal computer in 1992. He received the IBM Chairman’s Award from Lou V. Gerstner for the re-engineering of its hardware and software business. |
9:15 – 10:15am |
Strategic Planning in the Age of Liquid Talent IRI Research Project; Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management research initiative This project is working to identify a set of tools that R&D organizations can use to effectively employ technical liquid talent. They are specifically looking at the following areas:
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10:15 – 11:00am |
Break |
11:00 – 12:00pm |
How to Harness Social Analytics for Increased Business Insights There is growing interest in determining whether social media analytics can provide new insight into business performance. But, are these new data sources optimal or added noise for timely decision making? We will examine how to apply social analytics and predictive modeling techniques to social data that companies can gain or already possess about their customers.
Dr. Bill Rand, Assistant Professor, North Carolina State University
William Rand examines the use of computational modeling techniques, like agent-based modeling, geographic information systems, social network analysis, natural language processing, and machine learning, to help understand and analyze complex systems, such as the diffusion of information, organizational learning, and economic markets. He received his doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 2005 where he worked on the application of evolutionary computation techniques to dynamic environments. He is currently an assistant professor of business management at the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University. |
12:00 – 1:00pm |
Lunch |
1:00 – 2:00pm |
Innovation Career Paths IRI Research Project; Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management research initiative The goals of this project are to gain a better understanding of the role of the leader of the R&D function in an organization (e.g. CTO, VP of R&D, CSO; CTO for shorthand), the path that individuals take to that position, the competencies required to function well in the role, how the role functions within a large R&D organization, and the future of that role. To accomplish this, the following elements will be addressed:
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2:00 – 2:45pm |
NC State University’s Research and Industry Partnerships Dr. Alan Rebar, Vice Chancellor for Research, Innovation and Economic Development, NC State and Dr. Genevieve Garland, Director of Research Operations, NC State |
2:45 – 3:15pm |
Break |
3:15 – 4:15pm |
Performance Reviews for R&D IRI Research Project; Strategic Challenges in R&D Talent Management research initiative This project is working to determine effective ways that business objectives can be incorporated and communicated into R&D to provide motivation for technical staff and to measure performance of technical staff against those objectives. Questions to be answered are:
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4:15 – 4:30pm |
Wrap up and adjourn |
4:30 – 5:30pm |
Reception |
Day 3 – February 24th
7:30 |
Meet at NC State’s McKimmon Center for transportation to CAMAL 1101 Gorman Street Raleigh, NC 27606 (You will not be able to park at CAMAL) |
8:00 – 8:30am |
Breakfast at NC State |
8:30 – 11:00am |
Tour of Center for Additive Manufacturing and Logistics (CAMAL) |
11:00am |
Meeting adjourns |
Registration fees
$499 by February 1; $599 thereafter
Hotels
The list below is for attendee convenience only; IRI has not negotiated special rates at any of the hotels.
Hilton Garden Inn Raleigh-Durham/Research Triangle Park
4620 S Miami Blvd, Durham, NC 27703
(919) 941-6066
Marriott at Research Triangle Park
4700 Guardian Dr., Durham, NC 27703
(919) 941-6200
Hotel Indigo Raleigh Durham Airport at RTP
151 Tatum Dr., Durham, NC 27703
(919) 474-3000
DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Raleigh-Durham Airport at Research Triangle Park
4810 Page Creek Ln., Durham, NC 27703
(919) 941-6000
Need more information?
Contact Lee Green, Vice President, Knowledge Creation