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Article How the Innovation Champions Program Works at Vodafone
November 9, 2016
Vodafone's Jerry Spann and Ashoka's Sarah Jefferson lay out the key principles for Vodafone's global innovation champions program and the benefits of the approach.
Article Members Recommend Best Options for Online Innovation Training
October 25, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
A members in financial services asked about delivering online innovation education to a global workforce. Here are the options that others recommended considering…
Article Amex Exec on New Capabilities & Spreading a ‘Growth Mindset’
October 5, 2016 | By Ann Brocklehurst
Amex’s Lei Chen viewed her role as having three main components. Task number one: “[Find] the right talent in place to embrace the innovation that’s opened up by technology.”
Article How W.L. Gore Trains Employees to Explore New Business Opportunities
June 3, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Friction often exists between innovators and operationally-focused departments. A program at Gore addresses the friction and trains employees to explore market opportunities.
Article Six Tips From Eastman Chemical on Managing a Distributed Team
May 31, 2016 | By Farrell Calabrese, Contributing Columnist and former Global Corporate Sustainability Manager at Eastman
Managing a distributed team comes with its own challenges. Creative Manager Farrell Calabrese shares tools she uses to manage the Eastman Innovation Lab.
Article Chart: Top Recommended Innovation Software Providers
April 30, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
Here are some of the companies that provide software used to collect, rate, assign, track, evaluate, approve, and pursue new business ideas and opportunities.
Article Why Tata Communications Sends Employees to Silicon Valley
April 27, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Alex Pelletier of $3 billion Tata Communications, part of India’s Tata Group, discusses why his team sends employees to Silicon Valley for “an immersion week.”
Article Achieving Impact: Advice from Your Peers
February 25, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
We gathered twenty senior innovation, product, and strategy executives, in collaboration with our partner Mindjet. The goal: to discuss how to create sustainable innovation programs.
Article How Elon Musk Builds Organizations That Can Achieve Anything
October 13, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
We talk to Ashlee Vance, author of a book about Musk, about how the founder of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity hires people, battles bureaucracy, and dispatches problems fast.
Article How Big are Innovation Teams at the Largest Companies?
September 25, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Sharing some data that came out of our recent benchmarking survey. How large are the innovation teams at the largest companies? Here’s what our respondents said…
On Demand Webcast Fidelity VP on Tools for Innovation Teams
December 17, 2014
Rick Smyers of Fidelity Investments explains how you can put the right strategy, tools, and people in place to make a real impact — and details some of his team’s successful projects.
Article Google Execs Share Slides on Innovation, Culture & Hiring
October 16, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Slides from Google executives. Among their insights: “Most companies today are run to minimize risk, not maximize freedom and speed.”
On Demand Live Call How 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.
Article AECOM’s Innovation Video It Uses with New Hires
April 22, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
How do you get new hires to contribute to a culture of innovation from Day One? Warwick Absolon of industrial giant AECOM shares a video the company produced...
Article Job Descriptions: Technology Companies
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the technology sector. We hope it'll be useful as you're trying to build out your own innovation team — or to see how other companies have set up the innovation function, who innovation leaders report to,...
Article Job Descriptions: Professional Services
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in professional services...
Article Job Descriptions: Healthcare and Pharma
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in healthcare, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and biotech...
Article Job Descriptions: Manufacturing
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the manufacturing industry...
Article Job Descriptions: Government, Non-profits, Education
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the non-profit, government, and education sectors...
Article Job Descriptions: Food & Consumer Packaged Goods
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the food, beauty, and consumer packaged goods industries...