All Politics & Business Unit Engagement articles
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ArticleHow to Make Ethnographic Interviewing Your Superpower: 5 Tips
Learning how to do ethnographic interviews takes a lot of practice — and time. But if you are eager to learn more about what customers say vesus what they actually do, here are five tips to help you get started, from contributing columnist Matt Mueller.
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Article
How to Change an Innovation Skeptic’s Mind
While it’s tempting to ignore skeptics, they can improve your idea if they feel included from the beginning. Innovation strategist Matt Mueller shares a techique to help shift perspectives and propel innovation foward.
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Article
Goodyear and Pitney Bowes Veteran on Applying Lean Startup in Large Companies
Veteran corporate innovator Jim Euchner talks game theory, corporate antibodies, and lean startup, in advance of the publication of his new book.
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Article
How Dell’s CTO Assesses New Technologies to Drive Future Growth
Once a company is approaching $100 billion in revenue, creating substantial growth gets a lot harder. “You need to find some new areas to play in,” says Global CTO John Roese. Here’s how he does that…W
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Article
Fidelity Labs SVP: ‘The Only Success Metrics That Really Matter are Financial Metrics’
How do you avoid winding up in the “danger zone” as an innovator inside a big company? Mona Vernon, the head of Fidelity Labs at Boston-based Fidelity Investments, says it’s all about making sure your metrics are aligned with your CEO and CFO.
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Article
Book Excerpt: 3 Types of People You Need to Win Over
The new book from Shameem Prashantham, Gorillas Can Dance, presents examples of effective startup engagement strategies from companies like Microsoft, Unilever, BMW, and Cisco. This excerpt discusses the three types of internal corporate players who need to be on board in order to make startup collaborations successful.
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Video
New Book: Five Ways to Innovate Inside Bureaucracies
Trying to make something new happen inside a big, established organization is never easy. Eric Haseltine and Chris Gilbert’s new book, “Riding the Monster: Five Ways to Innovate Inside Bureaucracies,” provides a guide to avoiding the gnashing teeth of the corporate machine, rather than getting chewed up and spit out.
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Article
Has Your Organization Racked Up an Innovation Deficit?
Has your organization racked up an innovation deficit over the past year? Check the answers that describe dynamics your organization, and get an instant assessment of where you stand.
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Article
How Companies Think About Innovation Budgets in 2021
In a recent virtual gathering for members of the Innovation Leader network, executives shared their approaches to budgeting and funding in 2021.
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Podcast
How CSAA’s Chief Innovation Officer Approaches Disruption
How do Chief Innovation Officers build a strategic pipeline of innovation activities? And, what do they do to influence culture? CInOs from CSAA and PA Consulting explain.
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John Hancock Exec on Getting More Digital, Fast, in a Socially-Distant Era
As the pandemic surged, John Hancock saw more Google searches related to life insurance. But its traditional approach to policies involved in-person medical exams. Here’s how they adapted.
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Thought Leadership
Living in the New Reality: The Reinvention Ultimatum
Fiona Grandi of KPMG LLP shares a simple framework to reinvent your business strategy across five primary pillars: employees, customers, financial model, supply chain and ecosystem, and unknown-unknowns.
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On Demand Webcast
Leading Innovation Through Times of Change
How can you get operations leaders to think further into the future when constructing a strategy? How do you manage the transition to business unit ownership, so innovations don’t die on the vine? Ned Calder and Rob Bell of Innosight answer those questions and more during the most recent Solution Set webcast.
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Article
What We Stopped: 16 Activities That May Not Improve Culture
As part of our recent research, we asked 259 leaders of innovation if there were activities they’d stopped doing that were initially intended to influence organizational culture…
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Article
Former LEGO Exec: 5 Habits of Successful Corporate Intrapreneurs
David Gram, formerly a leader at LEGO Ventures and LEGO Creative Play Lab, outlines five habits that set corporate intrapreneurs up for success. The first one: Accept that people will hate your project.
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Article
Customer Focus, Culture, and Decision-Making at Amazon and Google
Faisal Masud has held senior roles in a range of organizations, from Staples to eBay to Amazon. He was most recently Chief Operating Officer at Wing, a drone aviation business that is part of Google. In several videos, he shares his perspective on attracting the best talent, and why a commitment to innovation at the top doesn’t always trickle down.
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Article
Three Tactics to Spur Innovation Inside Highly-Regulated Companies
If you’re on the inside of a traditional, regulated industry and want to shake up the status quo, here are three things you need to start doing, according to the former Head of Worldwide Innovation at Pfizer. Includes a downloadable set of tips.
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Article
Failing Fast: An Illustrated Fable
“We kicked off in a sequestered innovation lab, well protected from the unpredictability of the market…” Dan Roam draws you a picture of what happened next…
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Podcast
Finding Your Innovation Allies
How can you find innovation allies? We pull insights from our recent Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2020 Report, and head over to the Bose headquarters to find out…
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On Demand Webcast
Getting Leadership on Board with Corporate Innovation
Learn how to get executives on board with your innovation program in this webinar replay. Brant Cooper, CEO of Moves The Needle, demonstrates how to build strategic consensus.
