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Podcast Trek Exec on Tackling a Bike Shortage and Early R&D
December 15, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Chad Manuell, Director of Engineering at Trek Bicycle, discusses the surge in demand for bikes and how his team approaches early innovation.
Podcast Leaders from Lyft, Fitbit on How Diversity Drives Innovation
December 1, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Leaders with experience at Fitbit, Lyft, and the Alliance for Smiles discuss hiring diversely and support talent in an equitable environment.
On Demand Webcast Accelerating Innovation During Times of Disruption
November 18, 2020
In our “Accelerating Innovation During Times of Disruption” Master Class, Tim Bernstein and Stella Peace share insights on how to capitalize on 2020’s challenges to drive innovation.
Article Book Excerpt: The Catalyst’s Guide to Working Well
October 13, 2020 | By Lilly Milman
The new book Move Fast. Break Shit. Burn Out. is about “Catalysts,” a subset of innovators with “a deep-rooted need to create positive change.”
Article Does Your C-suite Still Need to Live in the Same City?
October 7, 2020
Hugh Molotsi, CEO of Ujama, shares how the shift to remote work may shape the future of the C-Suite. He also tackles two challenges of remote work: team building and serendipitous discovery.
Article How Do R&D Organizations Need to Adapt?
October 5, 2020
Technology and the necessary skills needed to succeed are changing faster than our traditional organizational models can keep up — especially in our R&D organizations.
Article How Can You Stay Close to Customers Remotely?
August 31, 2020 | By Eric Steege, Contributing Columnist and Senior Product Manager at Amazon
Eric Steege of Amazon Web Services shares how teams can stay close to their end users during a pandemic. Get his tips about leveraging learnings, customer insight channels, and more.
Thought Leadership Living in the New Reality: The Reinvention Ultimatum
July 29, 2020
Fiona Grandi of KPMG LLP shares a simple framework to reinvent your business strategy across five primary pillars: employees, customers, financial model, supply chain and ecosystem, and unknown-unknowns.
Article Trailblazing CEOs from Apple, Tesla, Starbucks & More Talk Innovation
July 22, 2020 | By Lilly Milman
These are 10 of our favorite videos that feature CEOs, founders, and trailblazing innovators sharing insights on how new things get created in their organizations.
Article Inside the R&D Culture at Pixar Animation Studios
July 3, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Pixar’s VP of R&D, Guido Quaroni, explains how and why the company encourages collaborative work. ”A culture of too much individualism…is always a dangerous place to be,” says Quaroni. Here’s how Pixar’s culture operates.
Podcast How R&D Keeps the CPG Industry on the Cutting-Edge
June 23, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
In this episode, we wanted to find out: “How is the CPG industry innovating to meet consumer demands?” Ranjani Varadan, VP of R&D at Impossible Foods, discusses how her team gets consumers to buy in to their future-forward vision. Jodi Benson explains why her team had customers write break-up letters to...
On Demand Webcast The Secrets to Success at Intuit’s Lean Startup Program
June 17, 2020
In this episode of One Quick Thing, Bennett Blank shares how Intuit’s Lean Startup program generated $20 million in new revenue.
On Demand Webcast Carhartt on Prototyping and Collecting Customer Insights from Home
May 20, 2020
Carhartt specializes in work clothes for industries including construction. Their Director of Global Product Innovation, Collen Hau, explains how the team is creating prototypes and staying in tune with customers.
Article How Hain Celestial Keeps Innovation On Track
May 8, 2020 | By Lilly Milman
Hain Celestial Group, known for teas and pantry staples, has pivoted down a new path in response to COVID-19: hand sanitizer. The company is also conducting remote product tasting with its senior leaders. SVP of R&D Jeff George explains…
Article An Ambidextrous Approach to Innovation Has Never Been More Important
May 6, 2020
We all know that innovation is important. But do we really know how to innovate effectively, even in chaotic times such as these? It’s all about finding the right balance…
On Demand Webcast A New Model for Teams Adapting to Disruption
April 27, 2020
Tad Haas and Ivan Lloyd of edison365 discuss a revised model for innovation that combines an innovation office with a project management office.
Video General Motors and IBM on the Role of a Silicon Valley R&D Outpost
February 24, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
R&D leaders from General Motors and IBM discuss the mission of the companies’ Silicon Valley outposts, and the importance of tracking first movers in an emerging market.
Video How General Mills Uses ‘Breakup Letters’ to Better Understand Consumers
February 18, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Jodi Benson shares how General Mills puts consumer needs first, and how a 150+ year old company is evolving the way it innovates to better meet those needs.
Article Getting Scientists Thinking More Like Businesspeople
January 2, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Alex Byelashov, VP of Innovations & Brewing Solutions at John I. Haas, shares some insights on quick wins.
Article Racing the Calendar: Inside New Balance’s Test Run Project
November 13, 2019 | By Kelsey Alpaio
The traditional process for creating a shoe takes 18 months. New Balance’s new record, as a result of their Test Run program, is seven months…