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Article How Industrial Giant ThyssenKrupp Approaches the Era of the Smart City
August 23, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Patrick Bass, CEO of ThyssenKrupp North America, shares his vision of the future of R&D which includes customers, academics, and data from IOT products.
Article Sherwin-Williams on Using Open Innovation to Create Breakthroughs
August 8, 2016 | By Molly K. McLaughlin
Victoria Scarborough of Sherwin-Williams’ Global External Innovation Team, defines her mission as identifying outside “technology that would move the innovation needle.”
Article The Secret of Corporate Innovation Is…
July 19, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Here are seven things we see having a big impact inside large organizations, and seven things that set you up for failure.
Article How the Unilever Foundry Works with Startups
May 25, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Unilever has launched more than 90 pilots with 90 different startups, scaling about half of those initiatives. Jeremy Basset of Unilever Foundry explains how and why they're doing it...
Article Changing Attitudes about Open Innovation at AstraZeneca
May 24, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Turning colleagues from skeptics to advocates isn't easy, but Scott Wilkins told us it has steadily begun to happen over five years of hard work at AstraZeneca...
On Demand Live Call Open Innovation at $25 Billion AstraZeneca
May 18, 2016
Scott Wilkins of AstraZeneca and his colleague Rob Albert discuss the roots of the open innovation program at AstraZeneca and more.
Article Early Data: Budgets, CEO Support, Metrics & Risk Tolerance
April 6, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
In February, we posted an assessment of the maturity of corporate innovation programs — and how they are being accepted by the culture. Get early results here…
Article Schneider Electric Exec on Decision-Making in Silicon Valley
April 4, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Schneider Electric’s Silicon Valley outpost helps the company experiment with new services and business models. VP Paul Campbell discusses takeaways…
Article How Companies Use Indiegogo to Assess Consumer Demand
March 16, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Indiegogo SVP Jerry Needel explains how companies like GE and Hasbro have been using crowdfunding as a way to gauge consumer demand for new products.
Article Airbus Exec on Seizing Opportunities Outside the Airplane
March 14, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
Markus Durstewitz of Airbus Group, talks about how the $67 billion manufacturer is working with suppliers, passengers, and pilots to make air travel more efficient. Includes slides...
Article What No One Says About Politics & Culture
March 1, 2016 | By Sreten Gajic
“[C]ulture and politics both will have big impacts on the course your innovation program follows,” writes Sreten Gajic, a former executive at Assurant and Coca-Cola.
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 Humana’s Chief Innovation Officer: ‘Co-Creation is the New Way’
February 9, 2016 | By Alicia Kelso
Chris Kay of Humana discusses how the insurer is collaborating and co-creating with startups, and outlines his process for going from ideation to market.
Article Assessment: How Well Developed is Your Corporate Innovation Strategy?
February 7, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Developed by InnoLead's Editorial team, with input from corporate innovation executives, this assessment will help you evaluate the current maturity of your organization's innovation strategy.
Article Running a Global Startup Competition at Spanish Bank BBVA
January 4, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Scarlet Sieber of BBVA, the Spanish banking giant, explains how to attract the best startups and make sure business unit leaders are ready to work with them.
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 How New CVS Digital Lab Proves Value, Works with Business Units
December 15, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
CVS Chief Digital Officer Brian Tilzer discusses why the company set up its new Digital Innovation Lab in Boston; how it connects with teams at headquarters; and more.
On Demand Live Call General Mills VP on Getting to the First Dollar, Failure, Key Metrics
November 30, 2015
Jim Kirkwood, Chief Science and Technology Development Officer at General Mills, explains how the company “gets to the first dollar fast” with pilot tests.
Article How GE uses Crowdfunding to Test New Ideas
November 23, 2015 | By Steven Melendez
The story of the Opal ice maker shows how a large organization leveraged crowdfunding to get a concept to consumers fast.
On Demand Live Call Gap Exec on Innovation Training, Co-Creation, Customer Insights
November 18, 2015
Gap Inc.’s Dean of Global Innovation talks about creativity, co-creation, the Mindspark training initiative, and the importance of solving small problems first.