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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.
Q&A Elements of Lean Innovation
November 2, 2015 | By Scott Cohen
We’re about to embark on a “lean innovation” journey at our company, and I was wondering if you’d seen any studies or best practices that large corporations should consider?
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 Google Exec: Foster 10x Thinking or be Doomed to Incrementalism
September 11, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
According to Google's Todd Rowe, leaders need to understand that fostering only incremental changes and improvements will doom a company to fall behind...
Article General Mills EVP on Becoming ‘Best Big Small Company’
July 20, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
Peter Erickson of General Mills, is focused on a very clear goal: to help the company, with 43,000 emloyees and brands become “the best big small food company in the world.”
Article How MTD Products Brought an Impossible Product to Market
June 8, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Roy Keating’s mission at Ohio-based MTD Products is to help accelerate growth coming out of the recession. Learn more…
On Demand Live Call What Happened to ‘Team Tomorrow’ at WD-40
May 11, 2015
Graham Milner of WD-40 talks about how the publicly-traded San Diego company with the iconic blue-and-yellow cans has grown beyond a single product.
Article Running Open Challenges to Solve Problems
May 4, 2015
Amazon.com is only the latest company to expose a problem it is grappling with and ask for outside help with its Picking Challenge…
Article Sustaining, Disruptive, Blue Sky: How Microsoft Invests in Research
April 8, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
On a Field Study visit to Microsoft Research, Peter Lee showed one of those slides that had everyone in the group suddenly reaching for their phones to snap a picture.
Article Why Ford is Growing its Silicon Valley Research Center
March 18, 2015 | By Brian Steiner
Ford exec Jim Buczkowski discusses the strategy behind the expansion of the company’s Research & Innovation Center in Palo Alto, and shares several projects they’re working on.
On Demand Live Call Hershey’s Exec on Using Experiments to Reduce Risk
January 16, 2015
Deborah Arcoleo, who runs the Advanced Innovation Center of Excellence at The Hershey Company, discusses investing in experiments and their role in reducing innovation risk.
Article Owens Corning on Metrics, Market Intelligence
November 11, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Owens Corning Director of Innovation Anne Bethereau shares several slides on how the company measures return-on-innovation & rewards high-performing teams...
Article How GM’s Silicon Valley Office Hunts for Relevant Innovations
October 1, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Managing director Frankie James talks about how her Silicon Valley-based team identifies high-potential startups and new technologies and interacts with teams at GM headquarters.
On Demand Live Call Xerox CTO on Connecting Research to Customer Pain Points
August 5, 2014
Sophie Vandebroek of Xerox discusses how the company connects to emerging customer needs and how her team solves customers problems fast.
Article Why Delphi Planted an Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley
April 16, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Delphi Labs director John Absmeier explains how the automotive components giant is partnering, investing, and plugging into the Silicon Valley ecosystem…
Article Ten Insights from Textron’s Scorpion Jet Program
March 19, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Textron set an audacious goal: Get a new military plane from concept to the runway in under two years. Execs shared what they learned on the journey...
Article General Mills Shares Learnings on Open Innovation
February 25, 2014 | By Scott Cohen
Mike Helser, head of the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network, shares what the consumer packaged goods company has learned from its open innovation experiences.
Article Inside Xerox’s ‘Dreaming Sessions’ With Customers
February 20, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Xerox felt R&D needed to be better-connected to customers. The result was the “Dreaming Session,” which brings researchers together with Xerox’s customers…
Article How Trek Bicycle Corp. Built Its Innovation Scorecard
February 12, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Trek exec Chad Manuell says the bike company's leadership wasn't happy with any of the innovation metrics or scorecards they'd seen...
Article GM on the Skills You Need to Manage Disruptive Innovation
February 3, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
General Motors R&D executive Clay Phillips talks about how the automaker is retooling research and development in the wake of bankruptcy.