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ArticleThe Biggest Acquisitions in Wearables and Home Fitness Tech
Apple and Peloton are leading the home fitness boom, leaving the largest companies in tech, retail, and apparel racing to build up their own muscles — largely through acquisitions. Here are the biggest deals made recently in wearables and home fitness.
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What’s Changing in the Wine Business? Gallo’s Innovation Director Explains
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 vineyards for in-person tastings of its higher-end brands. We pose five questions to Sandoval about her role and how the California company is staying ahead of recent trends in wine and spirits.
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Research Report
The Changing Landscape of Corporate-Startup Engagement
How are the interactions between Global 1000 companies and startups changing? How do large organizations build the case for greater involvement in the startup ecosystem? What resources do they put in place? To answer those questions, and others, we conducted a survey in Q3 2021 whose respondents included both leaders in large organizations and entrepreneurs who are seeking to collaborate with large organizations. Here’s the 61-page slide deck collecting what we found.
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Video
Redesigning the Rowing Machine at Hydrow
CEO Bruce Smith discusses how his team designed Hydrow, an at-home alternative to traditional rowing machines with live content and leaderboards…
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On Demand Webcast
10 Strategies to Jump-start Your Innovation Commitment
It was all there—you had management support and set up an innovation strategy. You rallied stakeholders and ran idea campaigns. Participation was good. You gathered promising ideas and implemented some of them. Then, interest and engagement faded away. Everyone agrees that innovation is key to your organization, so why are ...
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Top 10 Automakers’ Commitment to EV Innovation
Is the future of the automotive industry electric? In 2021, a growing number of automakers are betting big that the answer is “yes.” Here’s our look at what’s coming down the road next.
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Adjusting Your Innovation Portfolio for Success
Our new issue of Pointers gathers advice from our Strategic Partners on creating a healthy innovation portfolio.
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Video
Moisés’ 10 Commandments for Innovation and Growth
In this series, Moisés Noreña shares his “10 Commandments for Innovation and Growth” at established companies.
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What Matters in Innovation — May 21, 2021
What mattered in innovation this week? Innovation Leader’s Scott Kirsner, Derisk CEO Alex Slawsby, and Highline BETA Founding Partner Ben Yoskovitz share.
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The Top 25 Most Influential Innovators
2020 was a brutal year that separated a few forward-looking companies that continued to invest in innovation from the rest of the pack. From mRNA vaccines to streaming services to commercial spaceflight, here’s our list of the Top 25 Most Influential Innovators working inside big organizations.
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On Demand Webcast
iRobot CEO on Managing & Supporting Innovation
As part of our recent Success Stories conference, co-founder and CEO of iRobot Colin Angle discussed the growth of his company and how he approaches innovation.
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Should You Be on Clubhouse? 5 Benefits (and 3 Risks) for Professionals in Large Organizations
Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Gayle King are already on the Clubhouse app. Should you be? If you work inside a big organization, there are a different set of risks to weigh…
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Ex-Amazonian Bill Carr Shares the Keys to Amazon’s Culture
Bill Carr, who spent 15 years at Amazon, shares how the company has maintained an innovative culture as it grew to a trillion-dollar operation.
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Assessment: What Stage of Innovation Maturity is Your Organization At?
Welcome to IL’s Innovation Maturity Model assessment. This diagnostic is designed to help innovation, R D, strategy, and new product development leaders understand the strengths and weaknesses of their innovation programs, and provide an instant score. This assessment is designed for current corporate professionals and should only take about ...
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On Demand Webcast
How Travel is Changing at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport
What does it mean to innovate travel, and create new kinds of safety in 2020? Jodie Brinkerhoff, VP of Innovation at DFW Airport, discusses how her team is adapting…
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On Demand Webcast
What are the Biggest Barriers to Innovation?
This crisis is revealing aspects of our world that were broken, but hidden in the normal state of things. Now that the apple cart has been turned over, what can we see that is broken?
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12 of the Best Tools for Real-Time Team Collaboration
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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Scouting Emerging Tech at Our Silicon Valley Deep Dive
At our Silicon Valley Deep Dive, innovation leaders met in Sunnyvale, Calif. to discuss tactics for scouting emerging technology and plugging into the startup ecosystem.
