FEI-SPI stands for Front End of Innovation - Survey, Probe, Intervention. A survey on the front end of innovation has been developed by a World Class Industrial and Academic Team using the New Concept Model as a construct to provide a common language for the FEI. This survey gives you the opportunity to benchmark your company against the top and bottom performance and generates its results out of a database with more than 600 individual responses from over 230 Strategic Business Units.
Look at a Sanitized Benchmarking HERE
The survey was developed over a 1 year period by an industrial and academic team using the New Concept Development Model as a construct for the survey.
The Industrial Team consisted of
- Heather Alderman (Industrial Research Institute),
- Christina Bramante (Cabot),
- Scott Boyce (Rohm and Haas),
- Robin Dvorak (Industrial Research Institute),
- Cindi Hartz (Dow Corning),
- Kathy Herald-Marlowe (Marlowe & Associates),
- Michael Incorvia (International Flavors & Fragrances),
- Ken Lauer (Creative Problem Solving Group),
- Drew Kugler (Welch Allyn),
- Rita Pilate (J&J Consumer),
- Lorette Pruden (Inventive Strategies),
- Becky Seibert (Chemtura),
- Jeff Stirrat (Ethicon), and
- Brenda L. Tollett (Valvoline)
The Academic Team consisted of
- Peter Koen - Principal Investigator (Stevens Institute of Technology and Director of Consortium for Corporate Entrepreneurship - a research entity founded in 1988 whose primary focus is on improving the front end);
- Elko Kleinschmidt - Principal Investigator (McMasters University). Elko pioneered with Robert Cooper on Best Practices in the Stage Gate Process and Portfolio Methodology;
- Dorothy Leonard Consultant (Harvard) - Premier thought leader in the role of creativity in business; and
- Eric Von Hippel Consultant (MIT) - Pioneer in studying how breakthroughs actually occur.
This effort is being funded through the Innovation and Organizational Directorate of the National Science Foundation and the Consortium for Corporate Entrepreneurship at Stevens Institute of Technology.
You can take the survey in two easy steps:
It will take no more than 45 minutes to complete the survey. We require a total of three survey respondents:
- Senior Management or “C” level;
- R & D Management;
- and Marketing Management.
Multiple responses are needed to assure reliable data from your organization. All responses are kept confidential.
Click here to probe the results using the username and password supplied to you.
- In order to gain access to the Probe results, a username and password will be e-mailed within 2 weeks after the receipt of three completed survey responses.
- Return to the front end web site with your password and username and compare yourself to other companies. Also receive a coupon which may be used to get a $500 discount for each of the survey participants for the standard conference and special interest day, or a $350 discount off the standard conference price at the Boston May 2007 IIR/PDMA Front End Conference.
- Look at a Sanitized Benchmarking HERE
