Innovation Ahead by IRI

Join IRI’s Lee Green as she interviews Dr. Don Kinard, Senior Fellow, Production Operations, at Lockheed Martin. The focus of their discussion will be on digital twins: Defining digital twins; Use cases at Lockheed Martin; Building trust in digital twins and their capabilities; Creating and maintaining the infrastructure needed for effective digital twins, especially in legacy companies; and Maintaining cybersecurity while using digital twins.

IRI honors Veterans Day with this fantastic panel of veterans brought together to discuss: Barriers that impede a smooth transition from military to civilian employment; Key skills that are developed in the military; Ways that veterans’ experience can help them in industry roles; and Steps that organizations can take to make themselves more attractive to veterans.

IRI’s Lee Green interviews Brennon Marcano, CEO of the National GEM Consortium. The GEM Fellows program aims to increase the participation of underrepresented groups at the master’s and doctoral levels in engineering and science. Learn about how the GEM Consortium is increasing diversity in industry and academia and the ways that they match fellows with the right organizations to maximize success.

IRI’s Lee Green and Randall Wright, Program Director, MIT discuss how companies need to practice reconnaissance to identify innovative thinkers and the next disrupters, how sensors will be game changers, and hidden factories.

IRI’s Lee Green interviews David Caudel, Associate Director, Frist Center for Autism and Innovation at Vanderbilt University. They discuss the abilities that neurodiverse individuals bring to the workplace, and innovation in particular, and the (surprisingly simple and straightforward) accommodations that can be made to the workplace to bring in these individuals. They also cover how to train managers of neurodiverse individuals to ensure a good relationship (and how the Frist Center can help).

IRI’s Ed Bernstein and Nancy discuss her work in covering her research into diversity, culture, and inequality, as well as the management of knowledge-based organizations, and the management of scientists and engineers.

IRI’s Lee Green and John Simmins discuss augmented reality, covering the technology itself, ways to ease adoption, and future uses in industry and education.

IRI’s Lee Green and Carolyn discuss Carolyn’s work in establishing an LGBTQ+ employee resource group in the organization, including the impact the group is having on culture, establishing leadership buy-in, and bringing along allies. 

IRI’s Lee Green and Mickey McManus, Senior Advisor, BCG discuss Mickey's time at Carnegie Mellon University, MAYA (Most Advanced, Yet Acceptable), Autodesk, and BCG including topics such as interdisciplinary creation, generative design, building effective human/machine teams, and the marriage of sustainability and synthetic biology.