Connections · Members Question Time
Ask the network without naming your organisation.
Put a question to the member network without your company's name attached. IRDG gathers the responses and returns a practical summary of members' experience.
How it works
How Members Question Time works.
Submit your question
Send the question to the member team with any context that matters. Your company is not named.
IRDG asks the network
We put the question to relevant member companies without naming you or your organisation.
You get a practical summary
Responses come back collated — what members do, what they would avoid and what they would try next.
What members ask
The questions teams can't easily ask in public.
Process choices, tooling, suppliers, team structures, metrics and funding experiences — recurring questions where another member has usually been there already.
For example
The shape of the questions members bring.
Illustrations of the kinds of question the service deals with — real questions and answers stay inside the process.
“How do other companies structure the innovation team?”
Dedicated team or dotted lines into engineering, who owns the portfolio, and what changed when the organisation scaled.
“What tool did you pick for managing R&D projects — and what would you avoid?”
Software and systems choices, what implementation actually took, and what members would do differently second time round.
“Has anyone worked with this kind of supplier or partner?”
Experience of working with contract labs, research partners, consultants and specialist suppliers — what to check before committing.
“What do you report to the board about innovation?”
The measures that survived contact with a real boardroom, and the ones members stopped reporting.
“What did the funding application actually involve?”
The effort, timelines and evidence behind grant applications and claims, from companies that have been through them.
“How are you running this process day to day?”
Stage gates, validation, documentation, quality routines — how the process runs in practice rather than on the slide.
Who picks it up
Your question lands with Julia.
Julia works with members across innovation services and sustainability, drawing on experience in energy policy, consultancy and collaborative research. She runs the question to the relevant companies and returns the collated summary — without naming you or your organisation.
Julia Le MaitreInnovation Services & Sustainability Manager
A member service
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