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ArticleMember Spotlight: Tom Wagner, AstraZeneca
Tom Wagner is the Director of Digital Research, Knowledge Management & Market Intelligence at AstraZeneca. We spoke with Wagner as part of our IL Member Spotlight series, which profiles our members.
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The Top 25 Most Influential Innovators
2020 was a brutal year that separated a few forward-looking companies that continued to invest in innovation from the rest of the pack. From mRNA vaccines to streaming services to commercial spaceflight, here’s our list of the Top 25 Most Influential Innovators working inside big organizations.
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Video: How Mature are Your Innovation Metrics?
What are innovators at big organizations measuring to prove their value? And how mature are those metrics strategies? Innovation Leader’s Kaitlin Milliken and Scott Kirsner discuss findings from “ Developing Innovation Metrics and Reports That Really Matter .” Dana Naberezny, the Vice President of the Jewelry Design ...
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How Moderna’s CDO Leverages Software & Automation for Speed
Moderna’s Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer shares insights on how the company’s digital infrastructure supported the design and production of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.
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How Bayer's Open Innovation Chief Overcomes Metric Challenges
Chandra Ramanathan, Global Head of Pharma R&D Open Innovation at Bayer, shares insights on what metrics his team measures, how he overcomes challenges in reporting…
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Bosch VP: Create a ‘Diverse Funnel’ of Experiments
Uwe Kirschner of Bosch Innovation Consulting shared his team’s biggest accomplishments from 2020, as well as advice he wished he knew sooner…
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Inside the Year of Digital Solutions at U.S. Bank
This past year “demanded more from all of us than anyone planned — and the digital team at U.S. Bank was at the center of it all,” says the bank’s Chief Digital Officer…
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How Illumina is Building a Genomics Ecosystem
Amanda Cashin is the Global Head of the Illumina Accelerator, a startup accelerator that is dedicated to making human genome sequencing more accessible and useful. We spoke with Cashin about recent accomplishments.
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Explaining the Five Stages of Innovation Maturity
Large organizations often want to know where they stand when it comes to innovation maturity, progress, or sophistication. We divide this journey into five stages, from “ad hoc” to “optimized.” These are our definitions of each stage, along with data about how many organizations fall into each one.
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How This New Innovation Team is Figuring Out Its Metrics
Jodie Brinkerhoff’s innovation team at DFW Airport is relatively new, founded about two years ago. She shares insights on what has been working and what metrics she turns to…
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Innovation Solutions Showcase 2021
At our recent Solutions Showcase, in March of 2021, nine of Innovation Leader’s strategic partners shared the solutions their team use to innovate with big companies.
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Utz Brands SVP on Tuning In to Post-Pandemic Trends
Over the course of the past year, people have spent more time perusing the pantry for favorite snack options. But as the world begins to reopen, companies in the snack foods industry may need to tune back in to pre-pandemic trends, says Shannan Redcay of Utz.
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How Companies Think About Innovation Budgets in 2021
In a recent virtual gathering for members of the Innovation Leader network, executives shared their approaches to budgeting and funding in 2021.
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Inside the Innovation Pipeline at Fortune Brands
Moises Noreña, VP of Innovation at Fortune Brands, shares insights on the metrics that his team uses to gauge innovation. He also discusses overcoming challenges in identifying and reporting the right metrics…
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Member Spotlight: Jeremy Tole, Azbil Corporation
Jeremy Tole discusses his team’s biggest accomplishment and best practices for working at an outpost across the ocean from headquarters.
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Should You Be on Clubhouse? 5 Benefits (and 3 Risks) for Professionals in Large Organizations
Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Gayle King are already on the Clubhouse app. Should you be? If you work inside a big organization, there are a different set of risks to weigh…
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Creating the Psychological Safety to Innovate at PayPal
Sri Shivananda, Chief Technology Officer at PayPal, discussed how the company creates its own digital solutions, and encourages a culture that empowers innovation.
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How Shell and AXA Approach COVID-era Corporate Venture Capital
Investors from the insurance firm AXA Next Americas and energy giant Shell shared how they’re approaching corporate venture capital in 2021.
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PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer on Embracing Failure
Mauro Porcini, PepsiCo’s first-ever Chief Design Officer, offers insight on the intersections of innovation and design, methods for getting to the root of customer needs.
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How to Apply Lean Startup at Big Companies
Slides on applying the lean startup from the former Director of Digital Innovation at a lighting manufacturer. “Lean startup is not a bible,” he writes, but “rather a recipe book…”
