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Resource Boeing Internal Innovation Communications
July 29, 2025
How do you effectively communicate innovations to an employee base that spans 170,000 employees in 65 countries around the world? At Boeing, the answer lies in an internal innovation newsletter called “Innovation Quarterly.”
Article How the US Dept. of Defense is Making Open Innovation Work
May 19, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
The OnRamp program at the US Military’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) got started in 2023 as an effort to lower the barriers for non-traditional technology companies that wanted to work with the Department of Defense (DoD) — but weren’t already suppliers. We talk with Cassie Muffley, Acting Director of the...
Article How Embraer-X is Shaping the Future of Urban Air Mobility
August 2, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
We talk to Daniel Moczydlower, Embraer-X's President and CEO and Embraer's Head of Global Innovation Ecosystems, about how his team explores and implements pioneering projects in urban air mobility while maintaining alignment with Embraer’s core business strategy.
Article Setting a New Course at Airbus’ Silicon Valley Innovation Center
July 18, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
In the post-Covid years, Airbus' Acubed lab has refined its mission to focus on artificial intelligence and autonomy — how those technologies will be applied in aviation, and how they can help the parent company build competitive advantage. We talk to COO Paige Stanton Wilson about their projects and how...
Article How BAE Systems Identifies “Win-Win” Opportunities with Startups
August 23, 2021 | By Lilly Milman
In 2018, BAE Systems reorganized its FAST Labs R&D division and added a Technology Scouting group. We spoke with Stephen Russell of FAST Labs to learn more about how it successfully partners with startups.
Article Inside InnovationX, Airbus’s Fully Autonomous Innovation Arm
June 2, 2021 | By Lilly Milman
At InnovationX — an innovation business unit of aerospace giant Airbus — about 60 globally distributed team members operate almost entirely autonomously, according to the group’s leader Christian Lindener. Senior leaders only get involved at roadblocks.
Article Twenty Observations on Innovation in the US Dept. of Defense
January 26, 2021
It’s harder to innovate in the government than in the private sector — that’s just the way it is — but it can be done. For those leaders and innovators who work inside the DoD system, here are some observations…
Article How JetBlue Pivoted Its ‘Digital 2020’ Program In Its Final Year
January 11, 2021 | By Lilly Milman
When JetBlue launched a four-year digital transformation program called “Digital 2020” in 2016, no one expected the pressures of a pandemic in its final year.
Article Member Spotlight: Steven Rader, NASA
December 29, 2020 | By Lilly Milman
Steven Rader is the Deputy Director of the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation at NASA. We sat down with Steven as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.
Podcast What Comes Back and When? Exploring Life After COVID-19
June 30, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
What’s changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? What’s likely to come back? And when? InnoLead’s ”What the Future Looks Like” report seeks to answer that question.
Podcast How Changemakers Innovate Within Government Agencies
May 26, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
In this episode of Innovation Answered, we wanted to know, “What does innovation look like in government? ” To get best practices, InnoLead’s Kaitlin Milliken sat down with Tanya Hannah, the former Chief Information Officer of King’s County Washington. Steve Rader, Deputy Manager of NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative...
Article At NASA, Introducing a New Openness to Innovation
April 10, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
In a safety-obsessed culture, how do you suggest new ways to innovate? Omar Hatamleh, the first Chief Innovation Officer for the engineering group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, shares.
Podcast Drones, Self-Driving Cars & the Silicon Valley Problem
February 11, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
In this episode, Chris Anderson — CEO of 3DR, a drone software company — shares insights from his career and entrepreneurial ventures. Harvard Business Publishing’s Chief Product and Innovation Officer Josh Macht facilities. To get best practices from other innovators, watch other videos from our Impact main stage. Additional Resources: Get insights from...
Video Innovation Insights from Our 2019 Impact Main Stage
February 3, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Chris Anderson — CEO of 3DR, a pioneer of the drone industry — shares his experience building and deploying autonomous vehicles at InnoLead’s 2019 Impact event. Includes video…
Article Five Corporate Innovation Tips to Kick Off August
August 1, 2019 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Looking for the advice to kick start your month? Check out five takeaways from our July coverage of corporate innovation…
On Demand Live Call What NASA has Learned about the Power of the Crowd
July 22, 2019
Crowdsourcing can help your team discover new ideas. Steve Rader of NASA’s Johnson Space Center will discuss his experience with harnessing the power of the crowd.
Article EmbraerX Director of Innovation on Competing for Budget
June 1, 2019
We sat down with Peter Berger, Director of Innovation at EmbraerX, a disruptive innovation group inside Embraer, the world’s third-biggest maker of aircraft. Among EmbraerX’s projects is development of EVTOLs — electric vertical take-off and landing vehicles — in collaboration with Uber.
Article How the Aerospace Firm Embraer is Pursuing Disruptive Innovation
August 10, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
David Rottblatt of EmbraerX, a disruptive innovation team at Embraer, explains how the team is set up and some initial projects, including a collaboration with Uber.
Article GE VP: ‘The Way We Sold in the Past Isn’t Going to Work’
March 26, 2018
GE VP Cate Gutowski discusses how the company approaches innovation and the importance of weaving the digital thread. Listen to the full call…
Article How the Marines are Accelerating Tech Acquisition
January 12, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
Capt. Christopher Wood discussed some of the key inflection points in the Marine Corps’ history of innovation, and how the Corps is looking to foster the spirit of innovation today.