All Innovation Labs & Spaces - Page 7

Article Lego Executive Chairman: Create a Separate Structure
November 3, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Lego executive chairman and former CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp talks about Future Lab, a separate team the company set up to explore new avenues for growth.
Article Lightweight Engagement & Connecting with the Outside World
October 29, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
What’s lightweight? Things that can generate results in six months, with a minimum of funding. Lightweight is a kayak you can build yourself; heavyweight is a cruise liner.
Article How Express Scripts Leverages Data to Prevent Health Problems
October 19, 2015
The Express Scripts Lab tripled in headcount last year. One area of focus: working with data to predict which patients will need extra nudges to stick to a medication regime.
Article How Retail Giant Walmart Remade Its Network of E-Commerce Labs
September 8, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
Walmart, the world's biggest company by revenue, restructured its tech development team in Silicon Valley in 2011. We talk to @WalmartLabs chief Jeremy King.
Article How Corporations are Supporting the ‘Maker Movement’
August 17, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
How can a makerspace benefit a big company? That was the question asked of Google, Chevron, Saint-Gobain, and SolidWorks at an MIT panel...
Q&A Structuring an Innovation Group for IoT
August 17, 2015 | By Scott Cohen
“Do any of your members or partners have any thoughts on how to think about the integration process re: smart devices or the Internet of Things?” Get answers…
Article What Manulife’s Senior Tech Execs Want from New LOFT Initiative
August 11, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Executives at Manulife Financial knew they needed to play more offense when it came to exploring and experimenting with new technologies.
Article Five Ways to Spread Innovation throughout the Organization
July 30, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Michael Dewar of the New York Times R&D Group discussed the various ways that his group can build awareness of its projects throughout the organization...
Article Disney SVP on How Its Accelerator Program Led to New Partnerships
June 29, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
SVP of Innovation Michael Abrams discusses the upside of launching an accelerator program for media and entertainment startups, including partnerships that it has sparked so far.
Article Lowe’s Exec on Innovating in a Time of Exponential Change
June 1, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
In the 1920s, the average time companies spent in the S&P 500 was 67 years. Today, it's 15. Find out how Lowe's is working to stay ahead of the curve....
Article Former Microsoft, PayPal Execs on Connecting with Startups
May 21, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
What's the right approach for big companies that want to plug into the startup world? Invest? Acquire? Be a customer? Get insights here...
Article Staples Exec on Building up the Retailers’ Digital Muscles
May 13, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
Since he joined Staples, Faisal Masud has embarked on a campaign to build up the company’s digital muscles. Find out more…
Article Starbucks VP on Working With Howard Schultz to Execute Ideas
April 27, 2015 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Howard Schultz, the CEO of Starbucks wanted to create a shrine to coffee in Seattle where visitors could learn about the bean and immerse themselves in the brand…
Article Inside Home Depot’s Lab at Georgia Tech
April 13, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
Home Depot opened a site to connect with Georgia Tech students and explore technologies that could impact how people shop and associates work.
Article Inside the Entrepreneur-Led Innovation Group at Eastern Bank
March 23, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Dan O'Malley had tried to disrupt the banking industry from outside. Now, he's working within it, as the founder of Eastern Labs, an innovation group at Eastern Bank. Includes slides...
Article Why Ford is Growing its Silicon Valley Research Center
March 18, 2015 | By Brian Steiner
Ford exec Jim Buczkowski discusses the strategy behind the expansion of the company’s Research & Innovation Center in Palo Alto, and shares several projects they’re working on.
On Demand Live Call Cambia Exec: Why We Created Healthcare Collaboration Space
March 16, 2015
Nicole Bell, Executive Director of the new Cambia Grove, discusses how and why her employer, Cambia Health Solutions, created the the facility.
Article MasterCard Exec on Whirlpool Collaboration, Accelerator
March 9, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
John Sheldon shares the objectives behind MasterCard’s Start Path accelerator, and explains it’s collaboration with Whirlpool.
Article Inside the Creation of D&B’s Cloud Innovation Center
February 16, 2015 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
An acquisition in 2014 gave Dun & Bradstreet a 49-person, cloud-focused software development team in Vancouver. Here's how that group has evolved...
Article Hallmark Exec on Retail Pop-Ups & New Brands
January 29, 2015 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Patti Streeper's job at Hallmark Cards is to help cultivate businesses that may not fit with the company's brand image — but ones that speak to new groups of customers...