Scott Kirsner, Editor at InnoLead, and Pascal Marmier, Senior Vice President at Swiss Re Institute.- Gina Villani, Director of Innovation at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and Carla Small, Sr. Director of Innovation at Boston Children’s Hospital.
- Langdon Morris, Senior Partner at InnovationLabs; Natalija Jovanovic, Head Digital Catalyst at Sanofi; and Evelyn Lager of Babson College.
- Kaitlin Milliken, Producer at InnoLead; Donna Rice, COO at InnoLead; and Caitlin Harper, Events Intern at InnoLead.
- Suzi Hamill, formerly of Fidelity; Alex Slawsby of EmbraerX; and David Homa of Harvard Business School, write down their focuses for 2019.
- Participants shared their top questions and challenges for 2019 on sticky notes.
- We sorted the sticky notes into categories for discussion.
- Some topics of interest included creating a culture of innovation, funding, economic concerns, CEO FOMO, and more.
- Pascal Marmier, Senior Vice President at Swiss Re Institute, and Kyle Fugere, Head of Venture Investments at dunnhumby.
- Alex Slawsby of Embraer X jumps in to the conversation.
- Kevin Bolen, Principal, Innovation and Enterprise Solutions at KPMG, shares his insights.
- Mona Vernon, CTO of Thomson Reuters Labs.
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To start off the new year, we brought together 30 members of the InnoLead community for coffee and breakfast at our office in Boston to discuss their innovation agendas and goals for 2019. Among the topics we covered: ensuring that successful projects “cross the chasm” from innovation or R&D lab to a business unit; managing your CEO and CFO; how innovation priorities change during economic downturns; creating ecosystems around your company; and the plusses and minuses of creating physical spaces for innovation and collaboration activity. Thanks to everyone who participated!
