All articles by Scott Kirsner - Page 11

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  ArticleHow Dell’s CTO Assesses New Technologies to Drive Future Growth

  January 12, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner

  Once a company is approaching $100 billion in revenue, creating substantial growth gets a lot harder. “You need to find some new areas to play in,” says Global CTO John Roese. Here’s how he does that…W
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  ArticleInside MetLife’s Relationships with VCs and the Startup Ecosystem

  January 18, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner

  Since 2014, the $68 billion insurer MetLife has run more 160 experiments with startups — 70 of which later developed into contractual relationships. Vice President of Innovation Terrence Luciani has created a structured process for collecting requirements from around the company, and then working with venture capital firms, accelerators, and other parties to...
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  ArticleFidelity Labs SVP: ‘The Only Success Metrics That Really Matter are Financial Metrics’

  January 4, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner

  How do you avoid winding up in the “danger zone” as an innovator inside a big company? Mona Vernon, the head of Fidelity Labs at Boston-based Fidelity Investments, says it’s all about making sure your metrics are aligned with your CEO and CFO.
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  ArticleDisney CEO Bob Chapek Shares His Vision for the ‘Metaverse’

  November 17, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner

  Disney CEO Bob Chapek is looking beyond theme parks and video streaming services toward building an immersive digital “metaverse” — a kind of virtual reality environment that might enable Disney fans to take part in games and theme park-like experiences without hopping on a plane to Orlando, Anaheim, or Tokyo. 
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  VideoData Insights: Which Emerging Technologies Matter Most to Large Companies?

  November 23, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner

  Which emerging technologies are large companies learning about…investing in… and actually rolling out? This short video serves up three different lists of specific technologies, based on a recent IL survey.
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  ArticleHow Delta Airlines is Charting a Course to Net Zero Emissions

  November 23, 2021 | By Alexander MacDougall, Scott Kirsner

  Delta’s Managing Director of Sustainability Amelia DeLuca sits down with InnoLead to discuss electric airplanes, carbon offsets, biofuels, and communicating sustainability objectives to employees and customers.
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  ArticleHow Best Buy’s CTO Assesses New Technologies for Strategic Business Value

  December 13, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner

  We spoke to Brian Tilzer, Best Buy’s Chief Digital and Technology Officer, a few weeks ahead of Black Friday 2021. The starting point for our discussion was how Tilzer and his team evaluate emerging technologies that could impact Best Buy’s business. “Ninety percent of what we do is about what’s...
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  ArticleHow a $19 Billion Truck Maker Scouts Relevant Startups in Silicon Valley

  October 21, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner

  Paul Konasewich is a key player at the PACCAR Silicon Valley Innovation Center, which helps the $19 billion truck maker connect to relevant startups. ”You need to get honest about whether [your startup scouting activity is about] cultural enrichment,” he says, “or actually creating new products.” More of Konasewich’s advice...
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  VideoData Insights: Allocating Resources Across the Three Horizons

  November 22, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner

  How are companies allocating resources across the so-called “three horizons” of innovation — incremental, adjacent, and transformational projects? This short video serves up the answer, based on IL data.
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  ArticleWhat’s Changing in the Wine Business? Gallo’s Innovation Director Explains

  September 13, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner

  Michele Sandoval, Director of Innovation at the winemaker E. & J. Gallo, says the past 18 months have been an interesting time for the wine and spirits industry, with consumers spending less time at social gatherings and in restaurants, more time at home, and unable to visit some of Gallo’s...