All articles by Scott Kirsner - Page 14

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  VideoThe Three Crises Caused by COVID-19 — and How to Respond

  June 19, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Scott Kirsner

  Futurist Steve Brown sees the current pandemic as three overlapping crises — each requiring a different response. See how innovation plays into the solution…
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  ArticleEvery Online Event We’re Hosting

  April 8, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  We have a really simple aim: to put on the best virtual events on the Internet. Here’s what is coming up, both for members and non-members.
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  Article12 of the Best Tools for Real-Time Team Collaboration

  March 23, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  What are you using to collaborate, run brainstorming sessions, and move projects forward at this moment of remote work? Here are some tools our community recommended.
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  ArticleHow One Corporate Innovator Assembled a Volunteer Team to Print Face Shields

  April 6, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  Shashi Jain’s day job is Intel. But he’s working almost another full-time shift  as an organizer of the Portland 3D Printing Lab, which has been producing face shields for healthcare workers… 
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  ArticleOvercoming Politics and Internal Resistance: Advice from Your Peers

  March 3, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  At our Silicon Valley Deep Dive event in February, we asked a group of 30 innovation, emerging technology, and R&D leaders from industries like apparel, financial services, telecom, and manufacturing to discuss the things that can help overcome organizational resistance to innovation — as well as some of the things...
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  ArticleEx-DreamWorks Animation CTO: How the C-Suite Can Foster Innovation

  April 13, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  ”In my experience, the most powerful motivator to encourage innovation was peer recognition,” says Ed Leonard, Co-Founder of Bred Ventures and former CTO at DreamWorks Animation. Leonard shares more on what senior leaders do at companies like DreamWorks Animation and Disney to shape a culture of innovation…
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  ArticleAt NASA, Introducing a New Openness to Innovation

  April 10, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  In a safety-obsessed culture, how do you suggest new ways to innovate? Omar Hatamleh, the first Chief Innovation Officer for the engineering group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, shares.
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  ArticleSix Ways to Integrate Startups Without Crushing Their Spirits

  February 19, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  Raphael Guillet was a co-founder of the first startup that the $4 billion hospitality company Accor acquired. Since then, Accor has bought about a dozen other startups…
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  ArticleConnecting Startups in a Portfolio with Business Units

  January 3, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  Ayal Somech, Director of Portfolio Development, Boeing Horizonx Ventures, shares how his team executed a quick win. 
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  ArticleHow Disney’s Philosophy on Failure Drives Growth

  January 27, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  “I have always tried to make everyone aware that failure is not a corporate death sentence,” says former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Here are some of the biggest failures Disney has experienced in the last 20 years — and how the entertainment giant has bounced back.