R&D in the Next Normal
- Resource Type
- Slides
- Publish Date
- 01/19/2021
- Authors
- Innovation Research Interchange, Babson College
- Topic
- Managing Innovation and R+D
- Associated Event
- 2021 Roundtable: R&D in the New Normal
PILOT – R&D in the Next Normal
Initiated: January 2021
Expected completion: Fall 2023
Next event: Update roundtable webinar will be scheduled soon. Request an invitation now to be allerted once a webinar is scheduled!
Value Proposition:
IRI and Babson College have teamed up to conduct a longitudinal study on the impact that the coronavirus pandemic is having on R&D and innovation management. The project will focus on the following areas:
- Impact on R&D effectiveness
- R&D execution: Delivering value
- Maintaining R&D organizational culture and employee engagement
- Managing R&D remotely
- Maintaining and developing R&D knowledge and expertise in the long term
Research will be conducted in the following three ways:
- Quarterly roundtable discussions
- Feedback and additional topic discussions
- Surveys
- Conducted by IRI throughout the project to benchmark and collect key data points
- Interviews
- Conducted on a set schedule by Babson throughout the project to go in depth on the changes innovation practitioners are seeing
Deliverable:
The research will result in several report outs at IRI events and an article in our journal, RTM.
Participants:
This project is currently recruiting IRI members to join the IRI PILOT Steering Committee and Gina O’Connor, Sebastian Fixson, Alia Crocker,and Jonathan Sims from Babson College in this research.