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Resource Generative AI and the Future of Corporate Innovation: Data
June 10, 2024
Slides and video from a June 2024 presentation by Alex Slawsby and Scott Kirsner of InnoLead, covering recent data on how generative AI is impacting corporate innovation work, along with recommendations for what large organizations should be doing.
Podcast GenAI Hits the Road with Mercedes-Benz
June 10, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson
In this episode, we connect with James Liu, the Head of MB.OS Customer Experience at Mercedes-Benz. Liu oversees a team responsible for human-machine Interface concepts, UX design, front-end engineering, speech, and AI platforms. That includes prototypes that leverage generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion.
Article Four AI Questions Organizations Need to be Discussing
May 7, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
Author and business school professor Ethan Mollick says that there are four questions to be discussing inside organizations right now, as they look to understand how AI will impact them — and how they can benefit.
Podcast ‘AI Springs,’ Automotive Futures, and Silicon Valley Innovation Labs
May 6, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson
Evangelos Simoudis, author and investor, delves into the future of cars, what has happened to Silicon Valley innovation labs, and the latest "AI spring."
Article Testing the AI Enhancements in Six Widely-Used Productivity Apps
April 29, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
We look at several common office productivity and collaboration tools, including Zoom, Notion, and Microsoft Office, and put their recently added GenAI enhancements through their paces.
Podcast Innovating Coffee, with Starbucks Veteran Mesh Gelman
April 15, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson
In this podcast episode, we talk with Starbucks veteran Mesh Gelman about coffee trends; developing a new product from scratch; the difference between big organizations and start-ups; and his past work as an innovation consultant.
Article How Lowe’s is Renovating the Customer Experience with AI
April 3, 2024 | By Daniel Pereira
We talk to the Senior Vice President of Product & Technology at retail giant Lowe's about AI and their 2024 innovation agenda. Generative AI can create new types of experiences for customers looking for home improvement inspiration, he says.
Article At Hearth & Home Technologies, Exploring Where AI and the Smart Home Intersect
March 27, 2024 | By Kate Katz
We talked to Hearth & Home Technologies, manufacturer and supplier of fireplaces and stoves, about AI and innovation for our research initiative, "How AI is Influencing Corporate Innovation in 2024.”
Article Putting Generative AI Into Daily Practice: Give It 20 Minutes
March 19, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
How do you get your brain in shape for this new era, and understand the ways it may affect your work, and that of your team? Here are five Gen AI workouts to boost your productivity and understanding.
Article Are We on the Verge of a Golden Age of Robotics Innovation?
March 18, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
As robots become more capable of operating in different environments — and perhaps as they get new input about the world around them from AI and foundation models — it could be "transformative to our societies and economies," says Matthew Johnson-Roberson of Carnegie Mellon University, as "large swath of the things we...
Article New Data: Trends in Music and Video Consumption
March 15, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
At the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, Luminate CEO Rob Jonas offered an overview of how music and video consumption changed in 2023. Here are 10 of the data points he shared...
Article At DFW International Airport, AI and Sustainability Top the Innovation Agenda
March 7, 2024 | By Kate Katz
We talked to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, the second busiest airport in the world, about sustainability, AI, and innovation for our research initiative, "How AI is Influencing Corporate Innovation in 2024.”
Article Generative AI First Movers in 2024: Examples from Five Industries
March 4, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
A 2024 rundown of recent notable generative AI projects, broken down by industry. Includes Volkswagen, Pfizer, Starbucks, and more...
Podcast Geoffrey Moore on Generative AI: This is ‘Digital Transformation, Act 2’
February 26, 2024
If you’ve ever talked about a technology "crossing the chasm" from the realm of early adopters into the early majority, or your company has put a high-potential project into "the incubation zone," you’ve been using language given to us by Geoffrey Moore. He joins us to talk about generative AI,...
Article Amazon Got Caught Flat-Footed on Generative AI. Its Culture Didn’t Help.
February 21, 2024 | By Daniel Pereira
How is Amazon — the company that plunked the Alexa AI device into more than 500 million homes and offices — responding to the tsunami of generative AI offerings touched off by ChatGPT? We talk with Jay Baik, the former Head of Amazon Alexa New Business Incubation.
Video Amazon Robotics Chief Technologist on the Future of AI and Automation
February 13, 2024 | By Hadley Thompson
Tye Brady, the Chief Technologist at Amazon Robotics, joined us at Impact 2023 to share his take on the future of robotics, AI, and automation.
Article The ‘Fear the Unicorn’ Era is Over. Here’s What Comes Next…
February 5, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
“Fear of the unicorn” is over. We are now in an era where companies fear — and should fear — being insufficiently intelligent about AI. InnoLead Co-Founder Scott Kirsner explains...
Resource Emerging Technology Trends in 2024 and Beyond
January 31, 2024
Notes from a January 2024 InnoLead Executive Group meeting, featuring guest speaker Richard Entrup, a KPMG Managing Director. The meeting covered four topics: Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain, and the metaverse.
Article Walmart is Shutting Down its Store No. 8 Innovation Lab. Here’s What That Means for Other Corporate Innovators.
January 26, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
On January 23rd, we brought together a group of four retail industry veterans — and one retail-focused venture capitalist — to unpack the news that the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart, had decided to shut down its primary innovation group, Store No. 8. What are the important take-aways for innovators and...
Resource Best Buy Health President on the Next Five Years of AI in Healthcare
January 23, 2024
Presented at an InnoLead event in May 2023, this short PPT preso serves up an overview of how AI will impact healthcare over the coming five years, specifically focused on wellness/healthcare/aging at home, but also touching on drug discovery and the work of clinicians.