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Article Design Thinking & Lean Startup at Adobe
March 28, 2017 | By Stephen Ellison
Adobe exec Aubrey Cattell says that the lean startup approach – build, measure, learn, accelerate – has changed the way Adobe thinks about innovation.
Article Why Italian Vehicle-Maker Piaggio Set Up a New Lab to Design Robots
March 7, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
Michele Colaninno is emphatic about what he didn’t want from a new lab that the vehicle-maker Piaggio Group set up in 2015.
On Demand Live Call How Innovation and R&D Can ‘Increase Awesome’
December 12, 2016
Kevin Parsons of Northrop Grumman shared how his innovation group is influencing the culture and bringing business units into its process.
Article Google and XPRIZE Execs on Enabling Big Breakthroughs
November 23, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Google X executive Hans Peter Brøndmo and XPRIZE CEO Marcus Shingles give their insights from a session held at the inaugural Harvest Summit.
Article Siemens on Finding the Best Startups & Sparking Collaborations
October 31, 2016 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Through the Frontier Partner Program, startups enter a low-commitment relationship in exchange for free Siemens software and mentorship.
Article Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak on Ignoring the Rules
October 8, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
InnoLead editor Scott Kirsner sat down for a wide-ranging on-stage interview with Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple and a Silicon Valley legend...
Article After an Acquisition: SAP Ariba CEO on How to Sustain Innovation
September 19, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Even when acquirers pay billions, too often they squash the culture that made the company so appealing in the first place. Find out how to sustain innovation after an acquisition.
Article Google VP Talks Getting Resources & Confronting the Future
August 12, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Execs are too complacent when confronting seismic industry shifts, says Ivy Ross, who leads Google’s wearable computing project. “Why…stay at a hotel, versus in an Airbnb room?”
On Demand Live Call Intuit Executive On Rolling Out Lean Startup for Maximum Impact
July 5, 2016
If you’ve been debating whether to roll out lean startup methodology in your organization, Bennett Blank of Intuit has a question: What are you waiting for?
Article Using Lean Startup to Prioritize New Ideas at Ericsson
June 24, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
“We have way more ideas than we can possibly implement,” says Ken Durand, the head of Ericsson’s Atlanta Idea Factory. Durand shares how his team learned to prioritize.
Article How Adobe’s Legal Group Met the Challenges of Innovation
June 20, 2016 | By Donna Kolnes, Associate General Counsel, Adobe
How do you create legal guidelines for employee innovation that allow people try new things, but keep a company out of hot water? Donna Kolnes of Adobe explains.
On Demand Live Call Lessons on Running Cisco’s First Company-Wide Idea Challenge
June 3, 2016
Cisco's Alex Goryachev discussed the company's recent Innovate Everywhere Challenge, including how he got thousands of employees to participate.
Article Head of Innovation Lab at ADP on Recruiting & Hand-Offs
May 23, 2016 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Roberto Masiero, Vice President and Head of ADP’s New Jersey Innovation Lab, offers lessons and recommendations for companies looking to start their own labs.
On Demand Live Call EMC Exec on ‘Incubation Readiness’ and Incentivizing Employees
March 22, 2016
In this live call, Calvin Smith of EMC Corp., the data storage and cloud giant, discusses creating a central fund for innovation; incrimental versus radical innovation; and more.
Article Qualcomm on Building an Internal Startup-Venture Capital Ecosystem
March 21, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Plenty of innovation programs struggle to produce tangible impact in areas that matter to senior leadership. Navrina Singh of Qualcomm explains how they’ve been doing it…
Article How Collaborations Drive Intel Labs’ IoT Strategy
February 17, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
Martin Curley of Intel Labs Europe shares how an “Open Innovation 2.0” approach is helping Intel work with customers to prototype and deploy IoT technologies.
Article Why Toyota Set up New $1 Billion Research Group as a ‘Skunkworks’
January 27, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
The new institute has four initial mandates, including helping the carmaker explore possible products opportunities in “indoor mobility.” CEO Gill Pratt explains…
Article Why Tools Giant Stanley Formed a Joint Venture to Tackle IoT
December 28, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
Two execs at Stanley Black and Decker and View Technologies explain a long-term bet on the growth of big data and IoT, and a proposition designed to work in the near-term.
Article Google Exec: Foster 10x Thinking or be Doomed to Incrementalism
September 11, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
According to Google's Todd Rowe, leaders need to understand that fostering only incremental changes and improvements will doom a company to fall behind...
Article Dell’s Chief Innovation Officer on Innovation Portfolios & Training
July 28, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Dell's Jim Stikeleather opened a recent Brightidea innovation gathering in Austin with a talk about the importance of fostering divergent thinking...