All Remaking R&D articles
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ArticleGetting 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.
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Article
P&G’s Top R&D Exec on Startup Disruption and Lean Innovation
Kathy Fish, P&G’s Chief Research, Development, and Innovation Officer, discusses lean innovation, data science, and measuring productivity. Our exclusive interview is inside…
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Article
How the Aerospace Firm Embraer is Pursuing Disruptive Innovation
David Rottblatt of EmbraerX, a disruptive innovation team at Embraer, explains how the team is set up and some initial projects, including a collaboration with Uber.
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On Demand Webcast
Navi Radjou on How You Can Implement Frugal Innovation
Navi Radjou, whose TED talk on frugal innovation has garnered over 1.6 million views, explains some of the values driving the phenomenon, and answers questions.
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Research Report
Healthcare Innovation from the Leading Edge
Healthcare organizations are an extremely complex environments for innovation. Our report explores how healthcare companies have set up new initiatives that deliver results.
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On Demand Webcast
Best Practices for Scouting Trends and Emerging Technologies
Innovation Leader's Scott Kirsner and Kyle Nel, the former Executive Director of Lowe's Innovation Labs, discuss best practices for scouting trends and emerging technologies.
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Article
Nokia Blends Sci-Fi and Reality to Envision the Future
Leslie Shannon, Head of Ecosystem and Trends Scouting at Nokia, explains how science fiction can be an important bellwether of what technologies will take off.
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Article
PepsiCo Exec on Business Unit Ties & the Perils of Too Many Ideas
Robert Perri of PepsiCo, talks about the importance of budget, borrowing resources when necessary, and close ties between innovation or R&D teams and their business unit partners.
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Article
Fast Prototyping and Feedback at Shell's TechWorks Innovation Lab
Julie Ferland of the Shell TechWorks innovation lab, offers an inside at the space; the types of projects it works on; and the team Shell has assembled from outside the oil and gas industry.
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Article
PepsiCo Chief Scientific Officer on Innovation & Sustainability
Video highlights from the 2017 Teach-In at MIT, featuring PepsiCo's Chief Scientific Officer and Vice Chairman, Mehmood Khan.
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Research Report
Scouting Trends & Emerging Tech
How do large companies scout the trends and technologies that will be most relevant to their future success? Ourreport collects advice from executives...
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Article
Kellogg’s Nigel Hughes on How R&D is Changing
Nigel Hughes, Head of R&D at the cereal giant Kellogg Co., talks about distinguishing between fads and “seismic shifts,” and how the R&D organization is changing.
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Article
How Anthem Thinks About Innovation Structures & Timeframes
Two slides lay out how David Crean of Anthem's Innovation Studio views the different innovation options that a company might pursue...
