All Remaking R&D articles
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ArticleHow Can You Stay Close to Customers Remotely?
Eric Steege of Amazon Web Services shares how teams can stay close to their end users during a pandemic. Get his tips about leveraging learnings, customer insight channels, and more.
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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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Article
Trailblazing CEOs from Apple, Tesla, Starbucks & More Talk Innovation
These are 10 of our favorite videos that feature CEOs, founders, and trailblazing innovators sharing insights on how new things get created in their organizations.
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Article
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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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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On Demand Webcast
The Secrets to Success at Intuit’s Lean Startup Program
In this episode of One Quick Thing, Bennett Blank shares how Intuit’s Lean Startup program generated $20 million in new revenue.
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On Demand Webcast
Carhartt on Prototyping and Collecting Customer Insights from Home
Carhartt specializes in work clothes for industries including construction. Their Director of Global Product Innovation, Collen Hau, explains how the team is creating prototypes and staying in tune with customers.
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Article
How Hain Celestial Keeps Innovation On Track
Hain Celestial Group, known for teas and pantry staples, has pivoted down a new path in response to COVID-19: hand sanitizer. The company is also conducting remote product tasting with its senior leaders. SVP of R&D Jeff George explains…
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Article
An Ambidextrous Approach to Innovation Has Never Been More Important
We all know that innovation is important. But do we really know how to innovate effectively, even in chaotic times such as these? It’s all about finding the right balance…
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On Demand Webcast
A New Model for Teams Adapting to Disruption
Tad Haas and Ivan Lloyd of edison365 discuss a revised model for innovation that combines an innovation office with a project management office.
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Video
General Motors and IBM on the Role of a Silicon Valley R&D Outpost
R&D leaders from General Motors and IBM discuss the mission of the companies’ Silicon Valley outposts, and the importance of tracking first movers in an emerging market.
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Video
How General Mills Uses ‘Breakup Letters’ to Better Understand Consumers
Jodi Benson shares how General Mills puts consumer needs first, and how a 150+ year old company is evolving the way it innovates to better meet those needs.
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Article
Getting Scientists Thinking More Like Businesspeople
Alex Byelashov, VP of Innovations & Brewing Solutions at John I. Haas, shares some insights on quick wins.
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Article
Racing the Calendar: Inside New Balance’s Test Run Project
The traditional process for creating a shoe takes 18 months. New Balance’s new record, as a result of their Test Run program, is seven months…
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Podcast
Scouting Emerging Technology
How do you scout for new technology that’s the right fit for your business? Marc Lavallee, Head of R&D at The New York Times, shares best practices…
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Article
How Customer-Centric Innovation can Lead to Big Wins
Olivier Toubia of Columbia Business School discusses factors leading to failure, how connecting with customers lays the foundation for success, and the role machine learning should play in sifting through ideas.
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Article
How Coca-Cola Created the Soda Fountain of the Future
The inside story how how a skunkworks team of Coca-Cola engineers created the Freestyle soda fountain back in 2007 — and what they’re working on and imporving for the second iteration.
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Podcast
Remaking R&D at the Kellogg Company
How is Kellogg reimagining their business through R&D? We sat down with SVP of Global Research and Development Nigel Hughes to find out.
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Article
How Piaggio Fast Forward Brings Engineering Cultures Together
How do you ensure that an innovation lab takes advantage of the engineering smarts of the core business? Find out how Piaggio Fast Forward tackled the challenge.
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Article
How Corning Focuses R&D Efforts and Sources Ideas
Christie McCarthy of Corning’s life sciences division, discusses the 345 Model, the importance of patience, scalability, and where ideas come from.
