Scouting Trends & Tech

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How the NHL’s Florida Panthers are Using Data More Strategically

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What’s Changing in the Wine Business? Gallo’s Innovation Director Explains

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How Chinese Retailer Suning Group is Deploying AI and Other New Tech

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Inside athenahealth’s Interactive Telehealth Dashboard

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PepsiCo’s Demand Accelerator Takes Consumer Insights to Next Level

  • How the NHL’s Florida Panthers are Using Data More Strategically

  • What’s Changing in the Wine Business? Gallo’s Innovation Director Explains

  • How Chinese Retailer Suning Group is Deploying AI and Other New Tech

  • Inside athenahealth’s Interactive Telehealth Dashboard

  • PepsiCo’s Demand Accelerator Takes Consumer Insights to Next Level

Most large companies know they can get better when it comes to spotting emerging trends, integrating new technologies, and responding to changes in customer behaviors. But even when they do see these changes happening around them, they often lack the mechanisms to act quickly enough.

Our coverage of scouting defines several key activities, like aligning scouting activity with corporate strategy; operating the “radar system”; communicating what you see to the rest of the organization; running pilot tests and experiments; and helping the business deploy and scale the experiments that work.A good place to start is with our report “Best Practices: Scouting Trends and Emerging Tech.”

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Pursuing Four Sustainability Goals at Russia’s Biggest Grocery Retailer

With 17,000 stores across Russia, X5 is the largest retailer of food and groceries in the country. Find out how the company is addressing sustainability. 

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Disney: Innovating at the Intersection of Physical & Digital

Jon Snoddy of Walt Disney Imagineering gave an inside look at the culture that makes his team tick and his vision for how the physical and digital worlds are converging. 

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Member Spotlight: Joshua Ness, Verizon

Joshua Ness is a Senior Manager at Verizon 5G Labs, where he predicts how 5G will work with other technologies. We spoke with Joshua as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.

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How Dana-Farber Leverages Partnerships to Advance Cancer Treatments

Lesley Solomon, Senior Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses how her team utilizes partnerships to get new treatments to patients faster. 

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Creating the Psychological Safety to Innovate at PayPal

Sri Shivananda, Chief Technology Officer at PayPal, discussed how the company creates its own digital solutions, and encourages a culture that empowers innovation. 

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How Tyson’s CTO Is Using Big Data to Forecast COVID Spread

Because food distribution was labeled an essential business, Tyson Foods never shut down any of its plants. Right at the start of the pandemic — as early as January — Scott Spradley and his team began analyzing data to predict how infection might spread within them.

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Scouting Trends & Emerging Tech

How do large companies scout the trends and technologies that will be most relevant to their future success? Ourreport collects advice from executives...