RESEARCH SERVICES OF THE I L O INSTITUTE

Assembly Reports are major research studies answering questions identified by Assembly members and agreed upon as important to all. These may include best practices, long-term trends, status of distinct demographic groups, study of specific technologies, or other topics. Assembly reports typically engage two full-time skilled researchers and analysts for roughly two months of focused work.

Representative Topics:  Global Outsourcing and Innovation: Best Practices and Practical Tools for Contracted Development  Predictive Tools for Forecasting New Product Performance: What works, what’s coming next  The Work Environment in 2015: New tools, new habits of work, new performance expectations  Rising Income in Non-Western Nations and Consumer Products Spending Forecasts

On-Call Reports are reports requested by individual members, relying mostly on publicly available data. On-Call Reports are conducted as requested by individual members, are delivered directly to the requesting members, and are made available to all cohort members at their convenience. On-Call Reports typically require one to four days of full-time effort by an individual researcher and analyst.

Representative Topics:  Inventory of Internet-based Market Research and Surveying Firms, noting scope, current clients, strengths and weaknesses  Summary of the Lead-User Model of new-product innovation developed at MIT, including notable users, known outcomes, strengths and weaknesses  Trends in European Population focused on users of consumer grooming and beauty disposables  Income growth in rural U.S. communities correlated to purchase of productivity software, including ten year history, current state, and twenty years forward

Assembly Soundings are surveys of all Assembly members on questions suggested by individual members. Assembly soundings are managed, upon request of individual members, by I L O Institute staff and results are shared among Assembly members.

Representative Topics:  Shared patent policies for employee innovations  Use of external packaging design firms: how often, recommended vendors  Kinds of incentives offered for contributions to innovation  How high in the org chart is the senior executive fully devoted to innovation in your organization?