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Podcast Scouting Emerging Technology
October 8, 2019 | By Kaitlin Milliken
How do you scout for new technology that’s the right fit for your business? Marc Lavallee, Head of R&D at The New York Times, shares best practices…
Article How Customer-Centric Innovation can Lead to Big Wins
September 13, 2019 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Olivier Toubia of Columbia Business School discusses factors leading to failure, how connecting with customers lays the foundation for success, and the role machine learning should play in sifting through ideas.
Article How Coca-Cola Created the Soda Fountain of the Future
May 15, 2019 | By Scott Kirsner
The inside story how how a skunkworks team of Coca-Cola engineers created the Freestyle soda fountain back in 2007 — and what they’re working on and imporving for the second iteration.
Podcast Remaking R&D at the Kellogg Company
May 2, 2019 | By Kaitlin Milliken
How is Kellogg reimagining their business through R&D? We sat down with SVP of Global Research and Development Nigel Hughes to find out.
Article How Piaggio Fast Forward Brings Engineering Cultures Together
January 30, 2019 | By Kaitlin Milliken
How do you ensure that an innovation lab takes advantage of the engineering smarts of the core business? Find out how Piaggio Fast Forward tackled the challenge.
Article How Corning Focuses R&D Efforts and Sources Ideas
November 26, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
Christie McCarthy of Corning’s life sciences division, discusses the 345 Model, the importance of patience, scalability, and where ideas come from.
Article P&G’s Top R&D Exec on Startup Disruption and Lean Innovation
October 29, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
Kathy Fish, P&G’s Chief Research, Development, and Innovation Officer, discusses lean innovation, data science, and measuring productivity. Our exclusive interview is inside…
Article How the Aerospace Firm Embraer is Pursuing Disruptive Innovation
August 10, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
David Rottblatt of EmbraerX, a disruptive innovation team at Embraer, explains how the team is set up and some initial projects, including a collaboration with Uber.
On Demand Webcast Navi Radjou on How You Can Implement Frugal Innovation
May 30, 2018
Navi Radjou, whose TED talk on frugal innovation has garnered over 1.6 million views, explains some of the values driving the phenomenon, and answers questions.
On Demand Webcast Best Practices for Scouting Trends and Emerging Technologies
February 5, 2018
InnoLead's Scott Kirsner and Kyle Nel, the former Executive Director of Lowe's Innovation Labs, discuss best practices for scouting trends and emerging technologies.
Article Nokia Blends Sci-Fi and Reality to Envision the Future
December 29, 2017 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Leslie Shannon, Head of Ecosystem and Trends Scouting at Nokia, explains how science fiction can be an important bellwether of what technologies will take off.
Article PepsiCo Exec on Business Unit Ties & the Perils of Too Many Ideas
December 28, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Robert Perri of PepsiCo, talks about the importance of budget, borrowing resources when necessary, and close ties between innovation or R&D teams and their business unit partners.
Article Fast Prototyping and Feedback at Shell’s TechWorks Innovation Lab
December 28, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Kelsey Alpaio
Julie Ferland of the Shell TechWorks innovation lab, offers an inside at the space; the types of projects it works on; and the team Shell has assembled from outside the oil and gas industry.
Article PepsiCo Chief Scientific Officer on Innovation & Sustainability
December 26, 2017
Video highlights from the 2017 Teach-In at MIT, featuring PepsiCo's Chief Scientific Officer and Vice Chairman, Mehmood Khan.
Article Kellogg’s Nigel Hughes on How R&D is Changing
December 4, 2017 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Nigel Hughes, Head of R&D at the cereal giant Kellogg Co., talks about distinguishing between fads and “seismic shifts,” and how the R&D organization is changing.
Article How Anthem Thinks About Innovation Structures & Timeframes
October 2, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
Two slides lay out how David Crean of Anthem's Innovation Studio views the different innovation options that a company might pursue...
Article Vertex CEO on Innovation: The Challenge is Avoiding Complacency
August 27, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
Vertex’s CEO talks about the importance of investing in R&D — and the three pitfalls for companies that have attained success in the marketplace, including complacency.
Article ‘When You’re Trying to Achieve Big Things, You Will Sometimes Fail’
August 22, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
In this interview, Google leaders Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg discuss the role of failure when working on groundbreaking projects.
Article Mehmood Khan on Remaking R&D at PepsiCo & Sustainability
July 31, 2017 | By Scott Cohen
PepsiCo Vice Chairman Mehmood Khan talks about the links between sustainability and innovation; bringing in new skill sets into R&D; the challenge of measuring progress; and more.
Article How Reebok is Thinking Outside the Mold
June 1, 2017 | By Kelsey Alpaio
Bill McInnis of Reebok says the company wanted “a lot more speed, a lot more local, and a lot more custom.” This inspired initiatives like the "Liquid Factory" and "Cotton + Corn."