All articles by Scott Kirsner

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  ArticleAligning Innovation to Top Priorities at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts

  January 22, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  "I find that the best way to get strong leadership support is to be the first person to welcome people to the organization, to be the first person to educate them on what innovation is, to be the first person that sees eye to eye with them on how innovation...
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  ArticleHow GenAI is Being Used Inside Big Organizations: March 2025 Data

  March 27, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  With 109 qualified responses, here's survey data on how innovation and R&D professionals say about how the use of GenAI tools is impacting their work.
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  ArticleHollywood Veteran Katzenberg on AI: ‘If Change is Uncomfortable, Irrelevance is Going to be Harder’

  June 4, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  Former DreamWorks and Disney exec Jeffrey Katzenberg discussed the similarities between the arrival of AI technologies in the business world today and the arrival of computer-generated animation technologies in Hollywood in the 1990s.
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  ArticleMIT’s Eric von Hippel Looks at the Rise of Consumers as Innovators

  November 22, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  Eric von Hippel, a professor at MIT and economist who has studied open innovation since the 1980s, explores the phenomenon of consumers as innovators.
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  ArticleTop 10 AI Tools Being Used by Innovation and R&D Professionals: March 2025 Data

  March 10, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  With 105 qualified responses, here's what we're seeing from innovation and R&D professionals in March 2025. The question we asked: "Which AI tools are you consistently using as part of innovation-related activities (partnerships, scouting, product development, prototypes, experiments)?"
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  VideoMarc Raibert on the Converging Fields of AI and Robotics

  January 15, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  "We want to really figure out what are the big problems that are that are holding robots back. And believe me, robots are held back," Marc Raibert said at Impact 2024. "They're not the success that other technologies are yet." Watch the video...
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  VideoVideo: Former Disney Exec Bob Weis on Innovating Over Decades

  January 15, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  One of the things Weis discusses in this video from Impact 2024 is the relationship between the creative and design teams at Imagineering, and the operators who run Disney's theme parks, hotels, and cruise ships.
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  ResourceCorporate Innovation: 14 Essential Concepts Defined

  January 10, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  This deck, assembled by InnoLead, highlights the 14 most essential concepts in corporate innovation to help organizations foster creativity, agility, and leadership. We define each concept, provide a visual or framework that helps make it concrete, and recommend books, articles, or online resources to learn more.
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  VideoNTT Corp.’s Vito Mabrucco on the Difference Between Invention and Innovation

  January 7, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner

  Trevor Anulewicz of Launch by NTT DATA and Vito Mabrucco of NTT Corporation were featured mainstage speakers at this past fall's Impact conference in Cambridge. They discussed the importance of differentiating invention from innovation.
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  VideoUnited Airlines’ Chief Customer Officer on Cutting Red Tape to Innovate in a Regulated Industry

  December 23, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner

  "If innovation is about batting 100 percent, people aren't going to innovate enough," says Linda Jojo. Watch highlights from her conversation with Abbie Lundberg from the 2024 Impact conference.