All Consumer Packaged Goods articles
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PodcastHow R&D Keeps the CPG Industry on the Cutting-Edge
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) describes any product that requires routine replacement — from personal care to food. No matter the item, companies in this space have to create new offerings that shoppers will buy again and again. To find out how big bets empower the process, we talked to Ranjani ...
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Video
How General Mills Uses ‘Breakup Letters’ to Better Understand Consumers
Jodi Benson shares how General Mills puts consumer needs first, and how a 150+ year old company is evolving the way it innovates to better meet those needs.
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Q&A
Staffing Innovation Teams?
What…information might there be about innovation staffing? In-sourced vs. out-sourced? Types of roles/functions on innovation team?
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Article
How Brands Adapt to Disruption in Retail
Thought leaders with experience at Amazon, Ahold Delhaize, Roche Brothers, and L.L. Bean share industry trends discussed at Revolution Retail, a food retail pop-up.
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How Coca-Cola Created the Soda Fountain of the Future
The inside story how how a skunkworks team of Coca-Cola engineers created the Freestyle soda fountain back in 2007 — and what they’re working on and imporving for the second iteration.
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Podcast
Moving Fast…Full Speed Ahead!
Can a big, slow company really move fast? And is faster necessarily better? To find out, we talked to Rachael Schwartz, formerly of Keurig. This episode also features Trip Advisor CEO Steve Kaufer.
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P&G’s Top R&D Exec on Startup Disruption and Lean Innovation
Kathy Fish, P&G’s Chief Research, Development, and Innovation Officer, discusses lean innovation, data science, and measuring productivity. Our exclusive interview is inside…
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Podcast
Those Darned Millennials
Are millennials really killing established brands? We sat down with Nondini Naqui, a millennial engagement consultant and former CEO of Society of Grownups, to find out.
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Former Pirelli Exec on Digital Transformation as a Team Sport
What role should digital transformation play at your company? Former Chief Innovation Officer Marcelo De Santis shares advice in this podcast bonus episode...
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Inside Kellogg's NYC Cereal Café
At Kellogg's NYC, playing with your food is encouraged. Kellogg's launched its New York City cereal café in 2016. See how the brand connects with its customers.
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L’Oreal VP on the Effective Use of Design Thinking in Business
Jackson Wang shares his advice on the most effective ways to use design thinking, highlighting lessons from his work as VP of Retail Design at L’Oreal and Procter & Gamble.
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Nurturing New Ideas About Food at Campbell Soup Company
Megan Bozzelli, Disruptive Innovation Manager at Campbell Soup Company, explains the tactics the disruptive innovation team at Campbell’s utilizes to harness innovation.
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Why Burt’s Bees is Lending Market Knowledge to Startups
The Natural Launchpad at Burt's Bees is an annual grant program for natural products. Ten startups each receive $10,000, mentoring, and access to the other entrepreneurs.
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PepsiCo Exec on Business Unit Ties & the Perils of Too Many Ideas
Robert Perri of PepsiCo, talks about the importance of budget, borrowing resources when necessary, and close ties between innovation or R&D teams and their business unit partners.
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PepsiCo Chief Scientific Officer on Innovation & Sustainability
Video highlights from the 2017 Teach-In at MIT, featuring PepsiCo's Chief Scientific Officer and Vice Chairman, Mehmood Khan.
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Kellogg’s Nigel Hughes on How R&D is Changing
Nigel Hughes, Head of R&D at the cereal giant Kellogg Co., talks about distinguishing between fads and “seismic shifts,” and how the R&D organization is changing.
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Setting Up the Innovation ‘Shop’: Ex-Starbucks VP Shares Her Advice
Former Darden Restaurants and Starbucks exec Rachel Antalek says getting started was the hardest part of responding to the instruction to “set up a disruptive innovation team.”
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On Demand Live Call
How the Creative and Business Sides Can Get Along
American Greetings’ Carol Miller describes how the company creates meaningful connections with family and friends, bridging creativity and the business side of greeting cards.
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How P&G Evolved Its Innovation Studio for Broader Impact
Procter & Gamble's Clay Street Project allows employees to foster innovation and address the problems that can prevent ideas from growing into new products...
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How Science & Trends Drive Innovation at Nestlé Purina
Dan Smith of Purina offered Innovation Leader a look at how the pet food giant created a hit new product, and how human eating and shopping trends impact its business.
