All Ideation, Prototyping & Pilots - Page 10

• ArticleHow DuPont’s Innovation Centers Bring It Closer to Customers

  August 15, 2014 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager

  Karen Weining of DuPont explains how the pioneering materials company has been collaborating with customers at its network of 12 innovation centers around the world.
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  ArticleWhy Intuit Says ‘You Never Know’ about Ideas until You Test ‘Em

  August 7, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Executive Bennett Blank explains how Intuit is creating infrastructure that encourages teams to test ideas in the market to help determine which ideas hold real promise. 
• ArticleHow Roche Pursues Patient-Centric Innovation

  July 22, 2014 | By Julie Donnelly

  Sheila Babnis offers an inside look at how the Swiss pharma giant’s innovation function was created and how it operates today, including tight partnerships with business units.
• ArticleWhy Lockheed Martin Bet Big on Large-Scale 3D Printing

  July 18, 2014 | By Judy Quinn

  Execs at Lockheed Martin are demonstrating that 3D printing isn’t just for prototypes — they’re already producing parts for real-world projects like NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
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  ArticleHow Beech-Nut Innovated Within a ‘Category in Decline’

  July 16, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  In 2012, Beech-Nut acknowledged that it had a problem. Moms were no longer relying on supermarket baby food, and they regarded homemade food as the gold standard…
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  ArticleInnovation Matures from Skunkworks to True Partner

  July 2, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Aaron Proietti explains how his group’s mission has evolved, shifting from an isolated “skunkworks”s to more of a consultancy to the business units…
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  ArticleGoogle Execs Explain How the Company Spurs Innovation

  June 25, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Google executives offer an inside look at how the company hires, why reasonable goals are not good enough, and how internal projects gain or lose momentum.
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  ArticleInside Moen’s Prototype-Driven Product Development Strategy

  June 23, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Moen’s SVP of Global Strategic Development describes the customer-focused innovation process behind a new line of motion-sensitive faucets…
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  ArticleHow Constant Contact Blends Lean Startup & Design Thinking

  June 18, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Andy Miller, Chief Innovation Architect at the digital marketing company, shares slides and a video that offer a look at Constant Contact's approach to developing new offerings.
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  On Demand Live CallHow Ingersoll Rand Hires, Trains, Tests and Prioritizes Innovation

  June 11, 2014

  Michael Wynblatt of Ingersoll Rand discuses the complexities of his role; how he creates and tests innovation hypotheses; training and capability-building; and more.
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  ArticleHow Autodesk “Looks to the Edge” for Emerging Trends

  June 2, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Autodesk’s Jon Pittman talks about 3D printing, synthetic biology, programmable matter, and other trends he’s tracking. Pittman also shares the software giant’s new IdEx program…
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  ArticleFidelity VP: Pick the Right Innovation Tools for Your Trip

  May 19, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Rick Smyers of Fidelity Investments likens running a successful innovation program to planning a mountaineering expedition. Details, slides, and video inside...
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  ArticleWhy You Should Kill Off ‘Zombie Projects’

  May 1, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Innosight managing partner Scott Anthony says the problem could be too many "zombie projects" — and an organizational inability to kill them...
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  ArticleGE’s Chief Marketing Officer Talks Innovation, Partnerships

  April 29, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  GE's marketing chief Beth Comstock discussed the company's views on crowdsourcing, the Internet of things, the lean startup movement, and more. Quick bullets inside...
• ArticleLessons from Marriott on Rapid Prototyping, Co-Creation

  April 28, 2014 | By Scott Cohen

  Brian King of Marriott takes you into “The Underground,” Marriott’s innovation lab, to see how rapid-prototyping works there, and offers lessons for replicating the process.
• ArticleLearnings from Our Hospital’s First Hackathon

  March 14, 2014

  Innovation exec Lesley Solomon explains how Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston set up its first hackathon and what the event achieved for the organization...
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  ArticleGeneral Mills Shares Learnings on Open Innovation

  February 25, 2014 | By Scott Cohen

  Mike Helser, head of the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network, shares what the consumer packaged goods company has learned from its open innovation experiences. 
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  ArticleWhy News Corp. Innovates ‘Under the Radar’

  January 31, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  After launching a high-profile iPad newspaper that didn't succeed, the Manhattan-based publishing company is taking a quieter approach to incubating new products...
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  ArticleLearnings from GE on Connecting with Entrepreneurs

  January 23, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  GE hunts for breakthrough ideas by engaging with startups and academic researchers in new ways. See how the group held a first-of-its-kind event last fall.
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  ArticleFour Steps Hershey’s Uses to Reduce Innovation Risks

  January 15, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Director of Adjacency Innovation Deborah Arcoleo lays out the four steps she uses to de-risk innovation initiatives.