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Article Nilofer Merchant: 30% Weird is a Good Target
January 24, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
We sat down with the author and former Apple exec Nilofer Merchant to talk about why corporate cultures can be so hostile to ideas that are a bit off-kilter…
Article Nokia Blends Sci-Fi and Reality to Envision the Future
December 29, 2017 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
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.
Article Letting the Customer Drive Innovation at Beckman Coulter
December 29, 2017 | By Kelsey Alpaio
Wido Menhardt of Beckman Coulter discusses taking the cloud seriously; employee hackathons; and letting the voice of the customer drive innovation.
Article Uber Isn’t Joking About Flying Cars
December 12, 2017 | By Brian Steiner
Uber's Elevate initiative aims to launch a new fleet of electric aircraft that would carry a pilot and up to four passengers. We talk to two of the NASA veterans overseeing the project.
Video Why Thomson Reuters Rotates Talent Between Labs
October 6, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Kelsey Alpaio
Mona Vernon, Chief Technology Officer of Thomson Reuters Labs, explains why the company began rotating employees between its innovation labs. Find out more in this video…
Article Draper CEO on Innovation: ‘Three Keys to Breakthrough Innovation’
August 26, 2017
“I don’t want to encourage failure,” says Ken Gabriel, CEO of the $600 million non-profit R&D organization Draper. “I want to encourage people not to fear failure.”
Article ‘When You’re Trying to Achieve Big Things, You Will Sometimes Fail’
August 22, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
In this interview, Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg discuss the role of failure when working on groundbreaking projects.
Article Inside Verizon’s ‘Window Into Innovation’
August 18, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Kelsey Alpaio
Tim Gorman of Verizon discusses the company’s innovation centers in San Francisco and the Boston suburbs. He also offers a demo of augmented reality for “smart cities.”
Article Autodesk’s Rick Rundell on Getting an Innovation Program Started
August 15, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Autodesk Technology & Innovation Strategist Rick Rundell talks about starting an innovation initiative at the software company.
Article How Intel Is Transforming Hiring and Work Habits
July 21, 2017 | By Jennifer Monnig, Contributing Columnist, Director of Strategy and Intelligence and Chief of Staff at Intel
Jennifer Monnig spent the past three years leading an innovation team within the HR organization at Intel Corp. that sought to create a more collaborative culture...
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.