Innovation Research Interchange

Interdisciplinary Creation, Generative Design, and Effective Human/Machine Teams with Mickey McManus, BCG Group

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.

The Tools Diverse R&D Teams need to Innovate Effectively with Corinne Post, Villanova School of Business

IRI’s Lee Green and Corinne discuss the impact of belonging to a specific group (women, racial minority) on R&D scientists and engineers’ career trajectories and how having women in leadership impacts organizations’ long-term innovation strategies as well as the tools that diverse R&D teams need to be able to innovate effectively.

Digital Leadership: Data, Innovation, and R&D with Sharon Feng, PPG

IRI’s Lee Green and Sharon Feng, Director of Science and Technology and Global Analytical Science at PPG discuss PPG’s digitalization efforts, including their Fast Forward initiative, the ways that R&D can benefit from digitalization, the value of legacy data, and creating citizen data scientists.

Students, Teachers, Industry, and Diversity with Elaine Franklin and Mark Townley, Kenan Fellows Program

IRI’s Lee Green and Elaine Franklin and Mark Townley of the Kenan Fellows Program discuss their program that brings together teachers and industry to teach skills to students that can be used in local industry. Through their initiatives, they strive to make sure that the Kenan Fellows look like the students in their communities and use project-based learning to bring inclusion to teaching processes. 

Homegrown Virtual Testing and Data Analytics with Bob Wilkinson and Allison Rajakumar, Lubrizol

IRI’s Lee Green interviews Robert Wilkinson, Senior Director of Data Science & Analytics, and Allison Rajakumar, Senior Manager, Data Science & Analytics, Lubrizol Corporation. They discuss Lubrizol’s homegrown virtual testing and data analytics system for product development and deployment, Q.life. They discuss how they overcame data and resourcing issues to create the system and how they have gotten staff to successfully integrate it into work practices.

Inclusion, Innovation and One Young World with Bernardita Chirino Chace, Novartis

IRI’s Lee Green and Bernardita discuss the ways that Novartis has integrated inclusion into their innovation program, including bringing together people from across the organization – functionally and geographically – and fostering a sense of psychological safety to ensure staff are bringing their whole self to work and to the work of innovation.  Learn also about Bernardita’s work with the One Young World community and how Novartis has used ‘meeting observers’ to improve inclusion in their meetings.

Digitalization and R&D in Petcare with Mark Donavon, Nestle Purina Petcare

IRI's Lee Green and Mark discuss the challenges and opportunities that Purina has experienced as they work to bring digital into both their products and R&D. They cover a wide range of issues from creating products that will appeal to both pets and their owners to making those tough calls on resource allocation to invest in digital.

Diversity and Innovation with Janeen Uzzell, National Society of Black Engineers

IRI’s Lee Green and Janeen Uzzell discuss the value of diversity in R&D organizations and the importance of diversity in innovation.

Innovation Purpose and Focus with Moises Norena, MiTek Modular

IRI’s Lee Green and Moises discuss how having a purpose and focus for innovation plays into digitalization efforts and the ways that digital can improve the user experience in surprising and unexpected ways.

Digital Transformation Efforts with Lauren Beckstedt and Mike Adams, Brunswick

Join IRI’s Lee Green as she interviews Lauren Beckstedt and Michael Adams of Brunswick. They will take a deep dive into their digital transformation efforts, expanding on their case study.