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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."
Article Designing For Women — Advice From PepsiCo
May 16, 2017 | By Kelsey Alpaio
PepsiCo's Erica Eden explained some of her principles of “Designing for Women” and the steps companies should take to better understand and appeal to their women consumers.
Article Inside J&J’s New Initiative to ‘Intercept’ Diseases
May 12, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
The pharmaceutical industry often develops drugs to manage diseases. But Johnson & Johnson posits a different model: What if you could identify people at risk and stave disease off?
Article How Tech Scouting Ties in to the Business at Goodyear
April 10, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
Goodyear’s Chris Varley supports managers tasked with developing “‘something new’ on a five- or ten-year roadmap.” Get his advice on bringing ideas into a $15 billion company…
Article Startup Partnerships & Sustainable Tech at Saint-Gobain
February 14, 2017 | By Kelsey Alpaio
Saint-Gobain has thrived for more than 350 years. Get insights inside on how the company works with startups and accelerators to innovate effectively.
On Demand Live Call How Innovation and R&D Can ‘Increase Awesome’
December 12, 2016
Kevin Parsons of Northrop Grumman shared how his innovation group is influencing the culture and bringing business units into its process.
Article Google and XPRIZE Execs on Enabling Big Breakthroughs
November 23, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Google X executive Hans Peter Brøndmo and XPRIZE CEO Marcus Shingles give their insights from a session held at the inaugural Harvest Summit.
Article MIT’s Eric von Hippel Looks at the Rise of Consumers as Innovators
November 22, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Eric von Hippel, a professor at MIT and economist who has studied open innovation since the 1980s, explores the phenomenon of consumers as innovators.
On Demand Webcast What Top Corporate Innovators are Doing in 2016
September 22, 2016
InnoLead editor and co-founder Scott Kirsner shares seven examples of how companies like Toyota, Disney, GE, and Amazon are working to innovate better, faster, cheaper.
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 Treating Projects Like Startups & Keeping Leaders Engaged at Johnson Controls
June 13, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
Johnson Controls’ execs explain how new projects are funded and how they work with senior leadership to make decisions about their fate.
Article How Science & Trends Drive Innovation at Nestlé Purina
June 6, 2016 | By Alicia Kelso
Dan Smith of Purina offered InnoLead a look at how the pet food giant created a hit new product, and how human eating and shopping trends impact its business.
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 New York Times Disbands R&D Lab, Pulls Innovation Closer to Newsroom
May 10, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
The lab was founded a decade ago to look “beyond the next product cycle, identifying trends and technologies that will emerge in the next three to five years.”
Article At Shell’s TechWorks Lab, It’s ‘All About Deploying’
April 11, 2016 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Shawn Murphy of Shell TechWorks shares the lab’s projects, funding, and mission — finding innovative ways to drill for oil and gas, and exploring future energy sources.
On Demand Live Call Trek Exec on Trends, Social Media, and Why a Skunkworks Failed
February 24, 2016
Trek exec Chad Manuell discusses why one of the company’s skunkworks didn’t work. Other topics of discussion include trends in the industry and long-term thinking.
Article Why Toyota Set up New $1 Billion Research Group as a ‘Skunkworks’
January 27, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
The new institute has four initial mandates, including helping the carmaker explore possible products opportunities in “indoor mobility.” CEO Gill Pratt explains…
Article Powering Innovation in Rolls-Royce’s Engineering Culture
January 18, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
Hardev Ubhi of Rolls-Royce discusses how to to bring new tools and thinking into an organization that is understandably obsessed with safety, precision, and quality.
On Demand Live Call Steve Blank on Enacting Lean Startup Inside Big Companies
December 18, 2015
Lean startup guru Steve Blank talks about the challenges of bringing lean startup into a large company and the decisions to be made before setting up an “innovation outpost.”
On Demand Live Call General Mills Exec on Running Early Market Tests
November 30, 2015
General Mills executive Jim Kirkwood discusses how the $17.6 billion consumer packaged goods giant creates minimum viable products...