@Sycorax What's the goal here? Your first message/paragraph suggests that the scientists don't know/use the novel methods, so are you trying to convince C-suite to ...hire more experience, offer more ongoing learning opportunities, ...?
At this instant my reputation is 56789 from 999 answers. At least some of you may share wry amusement at such numbers without any meaning, as most of us like numbers! I published an article in Stata Journal 2(2): 202-222 in 2002, which was pure accident ....