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VideoVideo: 2020 in Innovation
Here’s a quick look at the most significant events of the year — and how innovators rose to meet the challenges they presented.
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Mattel President & COO on Digital Innovation
Richard Dickson, President and COO of toy company Mattel, offers insights on speeding new products to market, sourcing ideas from employees, presenting ideas to leadership, and more.
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The 10 Best Things That Explain Amazon’s Culture of Innovation
What makes Amazon’s culture unique? Here’s a list of 10 articles and books if you want to better understand what makes Amazon tick.
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Citi CInO on Getting Innovation Out Into the World
Vanessa Colella, Chief Innovation Officer at CitiBank, discusses how she defines disruption, trends in financial services, and how innovation is like a sloppy joe.
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Inside the Creation of Harley-Davidson’s New Line of Electric Bikes
Everything from the concept to the name of Harley-Davidson’s new electric bike brand is an homage to the company’s history. Brand Director Aaron Frank shares more…
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Converse CEO on Building the Brand of the Future
As part of our recent Impact conference, Scott Uzzell, CEO of Converse, discussed the brand’s relationship with popular culture, its collaborations, and more.
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How J&J Targets Racial Biases with Personal Accountability
With the recent surge in protests related to the Black Lives Matter movement across the US, companies across the world are looking deeper at their role in promoting equality.
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Why Stanley Black and Decker Isn’t ‘Following the Herd’ During the Pandemic
We sat down with Mark Maybury, Chief Technology Officer at Stanley Black and Decker, to learn more about the company’s recent growth initiatives, its “exteme innovation ecosystem,” technology investments, and more.
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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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How One CEO Gets Innovation Initiatives Over the Finish Line
Jason Field, CEO and President of W. L. Gore & Associates, shares how he encourages a culture of innovation and gets all levels of employees involved.
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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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Storytelling Skills for Innovators
According to journalist and author Evan Schwartz, while an epic adventure may have many storylines, all journeys boil down to a basic structure…
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Understanding the Mindsets of Knowers & Learners
This workshop, led by the former Head of Innovation at Pfizer, explores the mindsets that separate learners and knowers.
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What is Innovation Really Like in the Trenches?
”[Innovation] is like a movie set that looks stunning on-camera, but relies on…work behind the scenes.” An anonymous innovator offers his take on what innovation is really like…
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Inside the R&D Culture at Pixar Animation Studios
Pixar’s VP of R&D, Guido Quaroni, explains how and why the company encourages collaborative work. ”A culture of too much individualism…is always a dangerous place to be,” says Quaroni. Here’s how Pixar’s culture operates.
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Peloton Exec: Emerging From the Crisis Stronger Than You Went In
Few companies have experienced more of a surge of customer interest than Peloton Interactive, the maker of Internet-linked exercise bikes. We spoke to Rick Paster, Peloton’s VP of M&A Integration…
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Veteran Disney Exec: 5 Things That Impact Innovation
“Any step a company takes to foster innovation is praise-worthy,” says Marty Yudkovitz, formerly of The Walt Disney Company. “But…a lot of what is going on…is window dressing.”
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Pursuing User Research When Everyone’s in Quarantine
We all know that the innovation and design world rely on interactions with customers and users. So how do you preserve that input into your process when everybody is locked down?
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Maintaining C-Suite Support: The Four Key Questions
For many innovation teams, this is a chance to create significant short-term value for business unit leaders who may become your long-term allies. Unfortunately, when it comes to cutting costs, it is all too easy for senior executives to simply put innovation teams and their budgets on the chopping block.
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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.
