All articles by Scott Kirsner - Page 16

Article Inside Intel’s New VC Strategy: Fewer, Bigger Bets
August 12, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner
Intel Capital has put over $12 billion into 1,500 startups since it was founded in 1991. Mark Rostick offers explains how it has endured.
Article Five Truths about Amazon
August 6, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner
No one there is going to tell you to stay in your lane, explains former Amazon program manager Jerry Gupta. He shares other insights about the corporate culture inside…
Article How Construction Giant Bechtel is Building the Future
June 4, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner
David J. Wilson of Bechtel says, “It’s becoming…a necessity to find ways to improve construction productivity…” Wilson explains what Bechtel is doing, including its “Future Fund.”
Article How Coca-Cola Created the Soda Fountain of the Future
May 15, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner
The inside story how how a skunkworks team of Coca-Cola engineers created the Freestyle soda fountain back in 2007 — and what they’re working on and imporving for the second iteration.
Article Advice on Innovation Governance, Budgeting, Metrics
January 15, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner
In his new book, former Transamerica exec Aaron Proietti talks about innovation not as an outcome, but as a competency that helps organizations escape the status quo.
Article How Management Systems Can Support Innovation
January 29, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner
How do companies become innovative for the long haul? Nancy Tennant, an adjunct professor at Notre Dame and UChicago, addresses this question in her new book.
Article Target CEO on Making Bricks-and-Mortar Stores Work Harder
January 15, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner
Read edited highlights from Target CEO Brian Cornell’s speech and onstage Q&A session with NRF CEO Matthew Shay.
On Demand Live Call Building a Culture of Innovation at Turner Classic Movies
January 27, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
As part of our IL Live series, we spoke with Shannon Clute, Director of Business Development and Strategy at TCM, about the channel’s “bottom-up” innovation strategy.
Article These are the 14 Things That Kill Once-Great Companies
April 3, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
These are the 14 of the common things we at InnoLead see companies doing, thinking, and saying that lead to decline and eventual irrelevance.
Article The Ex-Files: On The Front Lines of Corporate Innovation
May 1, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
What it’s really like on the front lines of corporate innovation, according to those who’ve been there.