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Sustainable Innovation: Sustainable Packaging at Nestlé Purina
This whitepaper summarizes DuPont’s efforts to launch and scale its Spark Digital Academy, the challenges it faced, and the lessons the company learned. The text relies on several interviews with DuPont’s leaders responsible for the conception, launching, and management of the Digital Academy. It presents insights for other organizations to use in their digital transformation efforts.
Case Study
Sustainability/ESG, Innovation Business Cases
05/23/2023
Sinan Erzurumlu et al.
Moving beyond water cooler conversations: Digitalization Thought Leader Interview with Pete Weddington, Owens Corning
Water cooler conversations have been virtually impossible (pun intended) for over three years now. But were they even an effective way to get your teams collaborating in the first place? Owens Corning looked at their successful ERP model and wondered how they could parlay that effective collaboration into other parts of the business, including new product development. Collaboration hubs are their answer. They are working to bring everyone and every project into a transparent system to enhance knowledge and collaboration. Pete Weddington, IT Director at Owens Corning, will share their work on this as well as other innovative approaches they are taking to getting the word out about new tools and systems.earn about Procter & Gamble’s focus on ensuring there is no trade off between value, quality, and sustainability.
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Leading Innovation Organizations, Digital Innovation
05/18/2023
Peter Weddington et al.
Consumer-driven Sustainability: Thought Leader Interview with Jerry Porter, Procter & Gamble
Learn about Procter & Gamble’s focus on ensuring there is no trade off between value, quality, and sustainability. Jerry Porter, Senior Vice President, R&D Global Fabric Care, Flavors & Fragrance Discipline Capability and Fabric & Home Care Sector, at Procter & Gamble shares how innovation can rise to meet this challenge, working across the organization and with a broad range of partners.
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Leading Innovation Organizations, Sustainability/ESG
05/11/2023
Jerry Porter et al.
2023 Q1 IRI Quarterly Trends Analyzer
The IRI Quarterly Trends Analyzer examines the strategic environment in which innovation and R&D take place and flags up potential trends that you should factor into your current strategic planning. At the end of each quarter, potential trends are examined by the IRI Foresights Advisory Board (FAB) through the lens of \'What should Chief Technology Officers be thinking about over the next year?\'. The FAB selects the potential trends that it feels will have the greatest impact and then pinpoints the questions that you should ask yourself to ensure you are adequately preparing for these trends. In this report, you will find a description of those key potential trends, links to learn more about them, and the list of questions that the FAB thinks will be most helpful to you. In addition, we include some interesting possibilities (‘weak signals’) at the end of the report that we will keep an eye on to see if they will rise to the level of an impactful trend.
Report
Foresight
05/09/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
Community Forum – How has innovation changed at your organization?
A: How has innovation changed at your organization? In 2011, IRI launched the IRI2038 Futures Study to focus on one specific question: How might future trends, developments, and events impact the art and science of research and technology management over the next 25 years? This project examined hundreds of trends, weak signals, and implications to […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Managing Innovation and R&D, Organization/Future of Work
05/05/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
A Top Down and Bottom Up Approach to Sustainability: Thought Leader Interview with Jami Haaning and Wojtek Osowiecki, Lam Research
Learn how Lam Research has harnessed their staff’s enthusiasm for sustainability and enabled great strides toward their environment, social, and governance (ESG) goals through the creation of a Sustainability Employee Resource Group (ERG). Jami Haaning, Director of ESG, and Wojtek Osowiecki, Product Marketing Engineer and founder and chair of Lam Employee Sustainability Community (LESC), will discuss Lam’s unique top down and bottom up approach to sustainability and share lessons learned that can be applied to all organizations looking to meet and exceed their sustainability goals.
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Leading Innovation Organizations, Sustainability/ESG
04/27/2023
Jami Haaning et al.
DuPont’s Spark Digital Academy
This whitepaper summarizes DuPont’s efforts to launch and scale its Spark Digital Academy, the challenges it faced, and the lessons the company learned. The text relies on several interviews with DuPont’s leaders responsible for the conception, launching, and management of the Digital Academy. It presents insights for other organizations to use in their digital transformation efforts.
Case Study
Tools & Techniques, Digital Innovation
04/25/2023
Ruben Mancha et al.
Innovation ROI Best Practices: IRI Project Update
Return on innovation investment (R2I or ROI2) measures how effectively a company can achieve profitability from R&D expenditures. Innovation is key to business growth and success, but new ideas also come with risks costs, which must be evaluated against potential gains.
Webinar
Managing Innovation and R&D
04/24/2023
Greg Lemmon et al.
Digitalization from Manufacturing to Customer Experience: Thought Leader Interview with Sam Immordino and Lou Stocco, USG
Gain insights into two key aspects of the digital transformation journey: manufacturing and the customer experience. Lou Stocco, Director, Manufacturing Advanced Analytics at USG, will share how they are leveraging roadmaps and data and connecting their workforce as they work toward automated action. Sam Immordino, Director, Construction Software and Services, will discuss their digital center of excellence, how they are creating virtual spaces and experiences for their customers, and the ways they are developing institutional knowledge.
Audio Presentation/Podcast
Leading Innovation Organizations, Digital Innovation
04/20/2023
Sam Immordino et al.
Community Forum – Have you Centralized R&D?
A: Have you Centralized R&D? Our organization is weighing the pros and cons of centralizing our research teams. Currently, our staff are co-located within our manufacturing sites which are spread throughout the Americas. While this system has its benefits, management is exploring whether to centralize the team in one location. The results from this week’s […]
Survey (Community Forum)
Managing Innovation and R&D, Organization/Future of Work
04/14/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
AI Tools and Innovation: A First Look
A first look on uses, productivity, and managing the hype.
Infographic
Tools & Techniques, Managing Emerging Technologies, Organization/Future of Work
04/04/2023
Innovation Research Interchange
Improving Speed to Market
Managing time-to-market and improving speed-to-market in product and service development are critical issues for innovating businesses. Speed-to-market is widely believed to be required for the success of new products and services and better performance in executing speed-to-market is likely to be a consequence of overall new product development capability; so, the emphasis in this learning module is on ensuring that this capability is performing as well as possible.
Learning Module
New Product Development, Portfolio Management
04/03/2023
Robin A. Karol et al.