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Article Building a Trust and Safety Program in the Digital Age
February 24, 2023 | By Risa Stein, Director of Product, Integrity, Slack
Risa Stein, Director of Product, Integrity at Slack, shares her insights on the importance of building safer digital environments. She includes advice on building a team focused on safety and integrity; explains how that team can add value to an organization; and more.
Article TDK Ventures Managing Director on Connecting Startups with ‘the Mothership’
February 23, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
TDK Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of TDK Corporation, a Japanese multinational conglomerate. TDK Ventures Managing DIrector Anil Achyuta talks about taking a win-win approach to CVC — and how his team connects startups it invests in to the larger organization.
Article Concrete Advice on Improving Alignment with Your C-suite
February 15, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
Audio and transcript from a recent conversation about aligning innovation activity with the C-suite of a company, with participants from tech, food and beverage, manufacturing, and financial services.
Article PTC’s Chief Technology Officer on Innovating Across the Three Horizons
February 14, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
CTO Steve Dertien talks about how innovation happens inside PTC, a $2 billion maker of design, augmented reality, and Internet of Things software.
Podcast Podcast: A Beginner’s Guide to Artificial Intelligence
February 13, 2023 | By Tyler Smith
Matt Baker, Head of Corporate Strategy at Dell Technologies, answers the basics about AI: how it will be adopted; how jobs will be affected by AI; why generative AI should be on your company's radar; and more.
Article Sony Innovation Exec on Finding Use Cases for New AI Tech
February 7, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
Mark Hanson, Vice President of Innovation at Sony, explains how the company's new edge AI platform came to be; how it's partnering with Microsoft and startups; and the use cases the technology allows for.
Article H&M’s CTO on Scaling Innovation, Privacy, and Thinking Like a VC
December 16, 2022 | By Meghan Hall, Scott Kirsner
H&M Group's Chief Technology Officer, Alan Boehme, shares how the company is moving forward in creating customer experiences; addresses his thoughts on acting like a venture capitalist inside a corporation; and gives advice on creating aligned incentives.
Article Intel GM on the Industries Moving Quickest with AI Tech — and What Generates Resistance
December 1, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Intel GM Thomas Neubert shares the three industries that will benefit most from the implementation of artificial intelligence and busts myths about the developing technology.
Article Useful, Usable, Scalable: The Model $7B SAIC Uses to De-Risk New Ventures
March 14, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
One tool that tech integrator SAIC relies on as it works to develop a portfolio of new offerings is a Maturity Model. It helps the company “to rapidly discover, with minimal investment, whether something begs to be invested in — or not,” explains VP Heath Starr. Details inside.
Article How Dell’s CTO Assesses New Technologies to Drive Future Growth
January 12, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
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
Article How Software-Maker PTC Prototypes the Future of AR and VR
January 10, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
The $1.8 billion software company PTC makes software used to design physical products, and to connect them to the Internet of Things. In 2017, the Boston company created a new Reality Lab. Its leader, Valentin Heun, says, “We look at problems in the company that cannot be solved wth short-term business...
Article Member Spotlight: Pascale Wautelet, Avery Dennison
January 3, 2022 | By Kate Priddy
Pascale Wautelet is Vice President of Global R&D for Label and Graphic Materials at Avery Dennison Corporation. We spoke with Pascale as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.
Article What’s a Wizard of Oz Prototype? iRobot’s CTO Explains
December 29, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby
iRobot Chief Technology Officer Chris Jones discusses how the company keeps tabs on important technologies emerging from academia and the startup world — and the role that “minimum viable products” play, even if they’re controlled by a Wizard of Oz in the next room.
Article Is Augmented Reality the Next Disruptive Technology?
December 17, 2021 | By Alexander MacDougall
Entrepreneur and author David Rose shares his vision of the future of augmented reality. “What the web was in the 90s and what mobile was in the aughts, this is what AR will be in the next decade,” Rose says.
Article Member Spotlight: Swapnil Deshpande, Thoughtworks
December 2, 2021
IL member Swapnil Desphande, Chief Digital Officer at the tech consultancy Thoughtworks, talks about the importance of selling ideas — and not taking failure personally.
Article The Biggest Acquisitions in Wearables and Home Fitness Tech
September 27, 2021
Apple and Peloton are leading the home fitness boom, leaving the largest companies in tech, retail, and apparel racing to build up their own muscles — largely through acquisitions. Here are the biggest deals made recently in wearables and home fitness.
Article Why Digital Transformation Programs are Not About Technology
September 17, 2021 | By Ger Perdisatt, Contributing Columnist and Leader, Sales Excellence and Technology Strategy Organisation at Microsoft
“If you’re a leader expecting a technological silver bullet, a software panacea to all your business problems, without touching your people and processes,” writes Ger Perdisatt of Microsoft, “you’re going to struggle to derive value from a digital transformation program.” Here’s his advice on digital transformation, excerpted from the new book...
Podcast Venture Capital — Silicon Valley Style
July 27, 2021 | By Collin Robisheaux, Kaitlin Milliken
We drove out to Los Altos Hills, California to sit down with Hemant Taneja, one of venture’s power players to understand what’s on his mind half way through this year. Marcus Daniels, Highline Beta’s Founding Partner & CEO, also shares his insights.
Article PayPal on Getting Design Involved Early in Innovation Projects
April 26, 2021 | By Lilly Milman
Daniela Jorge, Chief Design Officer at PayPal, shares insights on testing the Venmo credit card, getting design involved in innovation early and often, and the power of design thinking in large organizations.
Article How Moderna’s CDO Leverages Software & Automation for Speed
April 13, 2021 | By Lilly Milman, Scott Kirsner
Moderna’s Chief Digital and Operational Excellence Officer shares insights on how the company’s digital infrastructure supported the design and production of the company’s COVID-19 vaccine.