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Article PepsiCo Exec on Business Unit Ties & the Perils of Too Many Ideas
December 28, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken
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.
Article PepsiCo Chief Scientific Officer on Innovation & Sustainability
December 26, 2017
Video highlights from the 2017 Teach-In at MIT, featuring PepsiCo's Chief Scientific Officer and Vice Chairman, Mehmood Khan.
Article Kellogg’s Nigel Hughes on How R&D is Changing
December 4, 2017 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
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.
Article Setting Up the Innovation ‘Shop’: Ex-Starbucks VP Shares Her Advice
October 10, 2017 | By Rachel Antalek, Contributing Columnist and Former VP of Concept Innovation at Starbucks
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.”
On Demand Live Call How the Creative and Business Sides Can Get Along
December 20, 2016
American Greetings’ Carol Miller describes how the company creates meaningful connections with family and friends, bridging creativity and the business side of greeting cards.
Article How P&G Evolved Its Innovation Studio for Broader Impact
October 17, 2016 | By Ann Brocklehurst
Procter & Gamble's Clay Street Project allows employees to foster innovation and address the problems that can prevent ideas from growing into new products...
Article How Science & Trends Drive Innovation at Nestlé Purina
June 6, 2016 | By Alicia Kelso
Dan Smith of Purina offered InnoLead a look at how the pet food giant created a hit new product, and how human eating and shopping trends impact its business.
Article How the Unilever Foundry Works with Startups
May 25, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Unilever has launched more than 90 pilots with 90 different startups, scaling about half of those initiatives. Jeremy Basset of Unilever Foundry explains how and why they're doing it...
Article How Companies Use Indiegogo to Assess Consumer Demand
March 16, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Indiegogo SVP Jerry Needel explains how companies like GE and Hasbro have been using crowdfunding as a way to gauge consumer demand for new products.
Article Lego Executive Chairman: Create a Separate Structure
November 3, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Lego executive chairman and former CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp talks about Future Lab, a separate team the company set up to explore new avenues for growth.
Article General Mills EVP on Becoming ‘Best Big Small Company’
July 20, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
Peter Erickson of General Mills, is focused on a very clear goal: to help the company, with 43,000 emloyees and brands become “the best big small food company in the world.”
On Demand Live Call What Happened to ‘Team Tomorrow’ at WD-40
May 11, 2015
Graham Milner of WD-40 talks about how the publicly-traded San Diego company with the iconic blue-and-yellow cans has grown beyond a single product.
Article How Sargento Created a Product with $50M in First Year Revenue
September 2, 2014 | By Judy Quinn
Rod Hogan of privately-held Sargento Foods, explains how a dialogue with consumers helped the company create a product that produced $50 million in revenue...
Article How Open Innovation Led Clorox to a New Product Line
May 21, 2014 | By Julie Donnelly
Clorox's R&D team brought together consumers, industry experts, and retailers to explore how to address the needs of families taking care of an elderly relative.
Article General Mills Shares Learnings on Open Innovation
February 25, 2014 | By Scott Cohen
Mike Helser, head of the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network, shares what the consumer packaged goods company has learned from its open innovation experiences.
Article Four Steps Hershey’s Uses to Reduce Innovation Risks
January 15, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Director of Adjacency Innovation Deborah Arcoleo lays out the four steps she uses to de-risk innovation initiatives.