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Article Every 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.
Article 12 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.
Article How 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…
Article Overcoming 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...
Article Ex-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…
Article At 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.
Article Six 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…
Article Connecting 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.
Article How 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.
Video ‘Loonshots’: How to Support Crazy Ideas That Just Might Work
February 13, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Scott Kirsner
Ideas that have the potential to reshape industries may end up stuck in the corporate basement. So how can companies embrace risky ideas? Authors Safi Bahcall and Hugh Molotsi serve up answers in this video.