All articles by Scott Kirsner

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  ArticleTDK Ventures Managing Director on Connecting Startups with ‘the Mothership’

  February 23, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner

  TDK Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of TDK Corporation, a Japanese multinational conglomerate. TDK Ventures Managing DIrector Anil Achyuta talks about taking a win-win approach to CVC — and how his team connects startups it invests in to the larger organization.
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  ArticleNASCAR’s First Chief Digital Officer on Experimenting with New Technologies and Platforms

  March 1, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner, Tyler Smith

  Tim Clark is the Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at NASCAR, the auto racing sanctioning and operating company, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. In this exclusive interview, he talks about leveraging new technologies to increase fans' engagement with the sport.
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  ArticleHow Long Do Corporate Innovation Jobs Last, and What Happens Next?

  January 23, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner

  How long do people typically stay in corporate innovation roles — at all levels? And where do they go next? We analyzed data from over 150 LinkedIn profiles to find out.
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  ArticleColgate’s Chief Sustainability Officer on the Keys to Driving Progress

  February 22, 2023 | By Meghan Hall, Scott Kirsner

  Ann Tracy, Chief Sustainability Officer at Colgate-Palmolive, shares her insights on developing a strategic plan; identifying what initiatives an organization should be a leader in; and using external partnerships to bolster R&D efforts in an interview from our recent report, Benchmarking Innovation Impact.
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  ArticleConcrete Advice on Improving Alignment with Your C-suite

  February 15, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner

  Audio and transcript from a recent conversation about aligning innovation activity with the C-suite of a company, with participants from tech, food and beverage, manufacturing, and financial services.
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  ArticlePTC’s Chief Technology Officer on Innovating Across the Three Horizons

  February 14, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner

  CTO Steve Dertien talks about how innovation happens inside PTC, a $2 billion maker of design, augmented reality, and Internet of Things software.
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  ArticleHow Software-Maker PTC Prototypes the Future of AR and VR

  January 10, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner

  The $1.8 billion software company PTC makes software used to design physical products, and to connect them to the Internet of Things. In 2017, the Boston company created a new Reality Lab. Its leader, Valentin Heun, says, “We look at problems in the company that cannot be solved wth short-term business...
• ArticleHow Anthem Thinks About Innovation Structures & Timeframes

  October 2, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner

  Two slides lay out how David Crean of Anthem's Innovation Studio views the different innovation options that a company might pursue...
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  VideoVideo: How Big Companies Plug in to the Startup Ecosystem

  January 6, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner

  Learn about seven ways large companies and organizations can participate in the startup ecosystem — with data to support what percentage of companies use each strategy.
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  ArticleAssessment: Does Your Organization Value Ideas?

  January 3, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner

  This 18-question assessment was designed to help leaders understand how effectively their organization collects, assesses, and manages ideas from the employee base. You'll get an instant score at the end.