All Innovation and COVID-19 articles
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ArticleMercedes Lays Off Staff at Innovation Centers, Seeks Outside Partners
Daimler AG, the German company that makes Mercedes-Benz vehicles and Daimler trucks, has laid off more than 100 staffers at its Lab1886 innovation centers around the world…
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Podcast
How CVS, Carhartt & Elsevier Pivoted to Face COVID-19
How have teams pivoted to face the challenges of 2020? Rhett Alden of Elsevier discusses launching a COVID-19 Resource Center in four weeks. Innovators from Carhartt and CVS share insights.
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Article
Can Online Meetings Ever Surpass Face-to-Face?
“Hey, you’re on mute!” “Can you see my screen?” Jean-Marc Frangos, a former innovation SVP at British Telecom, assesses the world of today’s online meetings — and what may come next.
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Article
The Evolution of Online & On-Campus Education
Sian Beilock of Barnard College and Adam Medros of edX discuss how their organizations have pivoted to address the challenges that COVID-19 has created for higher education.
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Article
Why Pampered Chef is Reinventing a Well-Established Sales Model
The migration away from in-person selling actually predates COVID-19 for Pampered Chef, but they’re taking advantage of the moment to experiment with social media.
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Article
The Rise of ‘Conferencing Competence’ and the Decline of Fancy Footwear
Thornton May contends that many leaders — and many organizations — are moving too slowly in responding to the dramatic changes that 2020 has brought. More insights inside…
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On Demand Webcast
Discover, Access & Manage Ecosystem Relationships in a Low/No Touch World
How do you build ecosystems when travel and serendipity are limited for the foreseeable future? Watch this webcast to learn how to form partnerships during lockdown.
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Article
New Data About the Market for Innovation-Related Jobs
We asked 159 innovation professionals about the hiring happening in their organizations — or how long they’ve been hunting for a new role.
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Article
Scenario Planning in 2020: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Doing
The business and societal impacts of the coronavirus pandemic will be “more like World War I or the Great Depression,” says Matthew Ranen, a scenario-planning consultant.
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Article
Highlights from June on Anticipating “The New Normal”
We’ve gathered the best pieces of recent advice from our live show, report, and other online coverage to help you imagine the future and plan your next steps.
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On Demand Webcast
CVS Health Exec on Rising to the Digital Demands of COVID-19
Firdaus Bhathena, Chief Digital Officer of CVS Health, shares how his team has pivoted to meet consumer needs — like exploding demand for deliveries — during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Article
Stop Trying to ‘Bounce Back’ to Normal
Rather than trying to restore all of the activities from February 2020 in the US, we should be thinking about how to “bounce forward” toward something new.
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Podcast
How R&D Keeps the CPG Industry on the Cutting-Edge
Consumer packaged goods (CPG) describes any product that requires routine replacement — from personal care to food. No matter the item, companies in this space have to create new offerings that shoppers will buy again and again. To find out how big bets empower the process, we talked to Ranjani ...
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Article
Can COVID Actually Turbocharge Parts of the Economy? This VC Says Yes
Juan Enriquez, Managing Director of the venture capital fund Excel Venture Management, sees “crazy amounts of productive innovation taking place” as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. But the risk he sees is going back to the way things were pre-COVID in the life sciences sector.
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Video
The Three Crises Caused by COVID-19 — and How to Respond
Futurist Steve Brown sees the current pandemic as three overlapping crises — each requiring a different response. See how innovation plays into the solution…
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Article
Moving Museums and Universities into the Digital Realm
At our Innovation Strategy for Nonprofits event, Arthur Daemmrich of the Smithsonian Institution and Panos Panay of Berklee College of Music discussed how their teams have been pivoting to offer educational experiences online.
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Article
How MassMutual Is Reimagining Financial Education
In Good Company, a MassMutual initiative, wants to help participants manage their financial futures with workshops, free of charge.
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On Demand Webcast
IDEO on Practicing Empathy & Running Sprints from Home
How can we make our food supply chain more resilient? What are the best practices for running an engaging virtual sprint? How can teams redesign their offices to make them safe for employees? In this video replay of The Solution Set, Owen Rogers, Melanie Bell-Mayeda, and Carl Fudge of IDEO answer these questions and more. Throughout the conversation, the trio share how design thinking can unlock innovation and solve challenges during the COVID-19 global pandemic.
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Article
How COVID-19 Reversed ‘Tech-Lash’ and Other Lasting Trends
Lauren Xandra, Vice President of National Research Group, explains COVID-19’s impact on the relationship between consumers, entertainment, and communication.
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Article
Panasonic on Entertainment’s Immersive & More Personalized Future
Two leaders of the Panasonic Hollywood Lab predict how entertainment will become even more personalized in a post-COVID world. They also discuss environments that promote healing and relaxation.
