All articles by Scott Kirsner

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  ArticleIs Your Innovation Program (and Your Job) at Risk?

  September 12, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner

  These are challenging times for teams focused on the future, long-term R&D, and culture change within big organizations. Are there risk factors appearing in your organization that your team and your program could be under scrutiny — or getting the axe? Try this assessment.
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  ArticleFormer LEGO Exec: 5 Habits of Successful Corporate Intrapreneurs

  January 23, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  David Gram, formerly a leader at LEGO Ventures and LEGO Creative Play Lab, outlines five habits that set corporate intrapreneurs up for success. The first one: Accept that people will hate your project. 
• ArticleDear Boss: Here’s How to Manage our Team

  May 12, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Phil Swishe of Brown Brothers Harriman shares the one-page guide he put together for the partner who was taking over management of his team in 2013.
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  ArticleDartmouth’s Vijay Govindarajan on Innovation Strategy

  April 18, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  How can organizations create the future when all their energy is spent on the present? That challenge is at the center of Vijay Govindarajan book “The Three Box Solution."
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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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  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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  ArticleHarvard University’s Chief Sustainability Officer on Pursuing ‘Goal Zero’

  October 17, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner

  With 600 buildings, nearly 20,000 employees, 25,000 students, and a fleet of vehicles, Harvard University oversees a vast amount of infrastructure. And the university is working to ensure that infrastructure ends its use of fossil fuels by 2050. We talk with Chief Sustainability Officer Heather Henriksen.
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  VideoData Insights: The Top Challenges of Corporate-Startup Collaboration and Investment

  December 15, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner

  These challenges are well worth paying attention to, discussing with your team, and creating strategies to address if your work involves generating value in the world of corporate-startup partnerships.
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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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  Article5 Generative AI Reports Worth Reading — May 2023

  May 29, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner

  How are you staying up-to-date on generative AI? In such a fast-moving space, it's important to have recent data, information, and insights. InnoLead CEO Scott Kirsner provides five worthwhile reads in the gen AI space.