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On Demand Webcast Innovation’s Arc: What’s Timeless, What’s Changed, and What We Still Get Wrong
April 7, 2025
Innovation isn’t just about the next big thing — it’s about knowing when to hunt for the new and when to harvest what works. In this recent webcast, Trevor Anulewicz, Vice President, Strategy, Launch by NTT DATA, unpacks the timeless elements of innovation, from attracting creative minds to navigating the...
On Demand Webcast Innovating Beyond Products
March 24, 2025
This webcast explores the ways that companies are redefining customer relationships by focusing on collaborative innovation, rather than just selling. Featuring leaders from Dow Inc. and Innoisight.
Article Book Excerpt: How to Predict What Your Competitors Will Do
March 18, 2025 | By Ilya Trakhtenberg, L.E.K. Consulting, Stuart E. Jackson, L.E.K Consulting
Understanding your competition means predicting how they will react, write Stuart E. Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg in Predictable Winners: A Handbook for Developing, Forecasting, and Launching New Products and Services. Success requires defining your competitive set, recognizing direct and indirect competitors, and anticipating market shifts. By using competitive intelligence and...
Article A Dispatch from the HumanX AI Conference: What Will Drive the Next Phase of AI Progress?
March 14, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
Defining what AI progress looks like is still a challenge, writes Sue Liang, who attended this week's HumanX conference in Las Vegas. She discusses the vendor landscape, AI adoption, and the path forward.
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call March 20th: Innovating Beyond Products
Join us for an exclusive webinar Innosight and Dow Inc., focused on unlocking new markets, solutions, and revenue streams.
Article ADP Ventures Chief on Successful Corporate-Startup Partnerships
February 28, 2025 | By Paulina Karpis, B Capital
As the leader of ADP Ventures, Usman “Oz” Khan oversees strategic investment and innovation initiatives at one of the largest HR technology companies. Khan discusses the importance of startup partnerships, the role of AI in HR tech, and how ADP Ventures supports innovation across a large and complex enterprise. This...
On Demand Webcast Harnessing Breakthrough Technologies to Stay Ahead of the Curve
February 28, 2025
In an era of constant disruption and accelerating technological change, staying ahead means more than just spotting trends — it requires the ability to act on them. In this webcast, Gary Walia, Director of Grid of the Future at Southwire, and Jan Fischer, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Innosabi, explore how...
Article Why is There So Much Hype Around AI Agents in 2025?
February 26, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
Curtis Michelson serves up a glossary of terms related to agentic AI, as well as a look at how the AI agent space is developing in 2025.
Article Analyzing the Three-Year Rise and Fall of Corporate Innovation Efforts
February 24, 2025 | By Robyn Bolton, Founder & Chief Navigator, MileZero
The ABCs of Innovation gives you a map to make innovation last beyond the three-year mark, writes Robyn Bolton in her new book, Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide for Turning Bold Ideas into Tangible Results. The three elements, Behavior, Architecture, and Culture, must be built and nurtured in tandem to...
Article Nvidia Exec on What’s Next for AI Adoption in Financial Services
February 13, 2025 | By Rachel Curry, Contributing Writer
We spoke with Nvidia's Kevin Levitt in February, just after the release of the company's latest "State of AI in Financial Services" report to learn more about where AI is headed in this key sector.
Article Albertsons Exec on Startup Partnerships and Where GenAI is Having an Impact
February 11, 2025 | By Paulina Karpis, B Capital
As Albertsons’ GVP of Technology and Engineering, Maria Latushkin is reshaping how one of America’s largest retailers merges in-store and online shopping. We talk with Latushkin about cultivating startup partnerships that thrive at enterprise scale, the pragmatic realities of deploying GenAI across vast workforces, and her vision for smarter, frictionless...
On Demand Webcast From Prompts to Profits: How Generative AI is Transforming Innovation
February 10, 2025
This webcast replay features Jan Beranek, Founder of FifthRow, and serial entrepreneur Paul Campbell exploring real-world examples of businesses leveraging generative AI to drive creativity, streamline processes, and unlock new opportunities.
Article Book Excerpt: An Example of an Amazon-Style PRFAQ Doc
February 10, 2025 | By Marcelo Calbucci
Used often inside Amazon, "a PRFAQ (Press Release + Frequently Asked Question) is a framework for articulating in writing an innovation, capturing the key facts, assumptions, and hypotheses for strategic decision making," writes Marcelo Calbucci. Here's an example...
Article Start with the ABCs to Get Better Performance From Your Team
February 7, 2025 | By Paula Davis, Stress & Resilience Institute
There are three essential nutrients at the heart of thriving, intrinsic motivation, engagement, and high performance at work, writes Paula Davis in her new book. They are autonomy, belonging, and challenge. Read our exclusive excerpt.
Upcoming Event April 1st: Chicago Innovation Forum
February 5, 2025
InnoLead is bringing together corporate innovators and R&D leaders from Chicagoland for an invitation-only afternoon event on Tuesday, April 1st.
Upcoming Event June 3rd: NYC Forum on Enterprise AI, Innovation, and Startup Engagement
February 5, 2025
B Capital and InnoLead are bringing together corporate innovators from the tri-state area for an afternoon of networking and small roundtable discussions around focused topics.
Article McKinsey Report Finds Employees Moving Faster with AI Than Leaders
February 3, 2025 | By Steven Melendez
Among those who said their organizations are moving too slow, the biggest reason for moving was "talent skill gaps," which 46 percent cited. An overview of the January 2025 report is inside...
Article How to Use a Reverse Income Statement to Assess Experiments
February 3, 2025 | By Wim Vandenhouweele
How to use a simplified version of a Reverse Income Statement to define and value the experiment's key assumption(s). Includes a downloadable spreadsheet example.
Article Inside Look: Milwaukee Tool’s IoT Strategy
January 27, 2025 | By Steven Melendez
Milwaukee Tool, a trusted name in construction for over a century, entered the digital space in 2015 with its One-Key line of connected tools and apps for managing, monitoring, and securing equipment. Andy Lambert, VP of Digital Product, discusses the challenges of integrating software into a hardware company, how technology...
Article Deloitte Report: Mistakes and Phantom Value are the Biggest Impediments to AI Adoption
January 23, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
“While the C-suite has been slower to engage in AI implementation," a new report from Deloitte finds, "teams across the company are developing proofs-of-concept and driving AI adoption.” More inside...