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Article What It Takes to Win in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
August 21, 2022
How do you create a strategy to understand the coming technology shifts — and put your company in a strong position? We’re exploring those questions in a series of video interviews with tech leaders.
On Demand Webcast Visioning an Emerging Tech Landscape in the Metaverse
August 12, 2022
In our recent online workshop, Elisa Holland and David Pessah of KPMG LLP discuss metaverse strategies, and how you can create common language and understanding around the metaverse. Watch the replay for their insights.
Article I Spent Hours Exploring the Metaverse… Here’s What I Found
August 12, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
InnoLead’s Meghan Hall spent hours exploring Roblox and Decentraland to compare the two, understand how to use them, and see who’s playing there.
Article Mastercard’s Chief Innovation Officer on Emerging Tech: Be ‘Insanely Curious’
August 8, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
We spoke with Ken Moore, Chief Innovation Officer of Mastercard for insight on the evolution of Web3 and the metaverse. He gave advice for scouting and testing new technologies in large organizations and discussed how Mastercard takes a “play with a purpose” approach to new tech.
Article How Avery Dennison Scouts New Technologies — and Cuts Through the Hype
July 29, 2022 | By Collin Robisheaux, Meghan Hall
We spoke with Collin Moore, Avery Dennison’s Director of Open Innovation Studio and Strategic Innovation, about how his organization scouts important new technologies, as well as how to filter out hype. This is part of our series exploring the “fourth industrial revolution.”
Video Video: What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
July 20, 2022 | By Collin Robisheaux
We talk with five executives about how they define the term “fourth industrial revolution” — and what some of the key drivers are.
Article Innovating to Meet Sustainability Goals
June 18, 2022
ESG? Agenda 2030? Whatever language your organization is using, it’s likely you’ve set goals related to sustainability. However, there may not yet be a defined team in place, or sufficient resources. Here’s what other companies are doing.
Article A Simplified Guide to Web3 and the Metaverse
May 25, 2022
Web3 and the metaverse are two concepts that catapulted out of the world of startups, venture capital, and cryptocurrency enthusiasts in 2021. Now, many larger companies are exploring potential use cases and developing strategy for both Web3 and the metaverse. So we’ve created a jargon-free guide to these two concepts,...
Article How Carmaker BMW is Developing Strategy for Blockchain, AI, and the Metaverse
May 16, 2022
How do emerging technologies get evaluated, tested, and rolled out in Munich-based BMW Group? We talk to Andrew Luckow, Head of Innovation and Emerging Technologies to get the details.
Article Mobile Apps, NFTs, and the Metaverse: How FIFA is Innovating its Way to the 2022 World Cup
March 25, 2022 | By Collin Robisheaux
“Innovation is a word that can mean everything – and nothing,” says Benjamin Stoll, Director of Strategic Alliances & Innovation at FIFA, football’s governing body. Unless, he adds, innovation activity can be tied to tangible value creation for FIFA and its constituents. We talked to Stoll in advance of this...
Article Inside MetLife’s Relationships with VCs and the Startup Ecosystem
January 18, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
Since 2014, the $68 billion insurer MetLife has run more 160 experiments with startups — 70 of which later developed into contractual relationships. Vice President of Innovation Terrence Luciani has created a structured process for collecting requirements from around the company, and then working with venture capital firms, accelerators, and other parties to...
Article How Dell’s CTO Assesses New Technologies to Drive Future Growth
January 12, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
Once a company is approaching $100 billion in revenue, creating substantial growth gets a lot harder. “You need to find some new areas to play in,” says Global CTO John Roese. Here’s how he does that…W
Article How Software-Maker PTC Prototypes the Future of AR and VR
January 10, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
The $1.8 billion software company PTC makes software used to design physical products, and to connect them to the Internet of Things. In 2017, the Boston company created a new Reality Lab. Its leader, Valentin Heun, says, “We look at problems in the company that cannot be solved wth short-term business...
Article How Pharma Distributor AmerisourceBergen Prioritizes and Pilots Emerging Tech
December 21, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby
One key is to success with emerging tech is working closely with customers, says SVP of Strategy and Innovation Jason Dinger: “Sometimes, we identify hidden value where a customer sees a way to deploy a technology that we didn’t see.”
Article Is Augmented Reality the Next Disruptive Technology?
December 17, 2021 | By Alexander MacDougall
Entrepreneur and author David Rose shares his vision of the future of augmented reality. “What the web was in the 90s and what mobile was in the aughts, this is what AR will be in the next decade,” Rose says.
Article How One Retail VP Scores Emerging Technologies
December 15, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby
“There will always be new, cool, shiny things that we could bring to life in our stores,” says Heather Paquette of Retail Business Services, a subsidiary of the grocery giant Ahold Delhaize. “But we’re really here to help our brands achieve their goals by implementing new solutions that create measurable...
Article How Best Buy’s CTO Assesses New Technologies for Strategic Business Value
December 13, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner
We spoke to Brian Tilzer, Best Buy’s Chief Digital and Technology Officer, a few weeks ahead of Black Friday 2021. The starting point for our discussion was how Tilzer and his team evaluate emerging technologies that could impact Best Buy’s business. “Ninety percent of what we do is about what’s...
Article Disney CEO Bob Chapek Shares His Vision for the ‘Metaverse’
November 17, 2021 | By Scott Kirsner
Disney CEO Bob Chapek is looking beyond theme parks and video streaming services toward building an immersive digital “metaverse” — a kind of virtual reality environment that might enable Disney fans to take part in games and theme park-like experiences without hopping on a plane to Orlando, Anaheim, or Tokyo.
Article The Revolution in Consumer Products: 5 Lessons from New Brands
November 10, 2021 | By Paul Earle, Contributing Columnist and Principal of A Day in the Sun
Paul Earle, Contributing Columnist As a lifelong student, teacher and practitioner of innovation, I have always been fascinated by the quest to understand how. To find signal through the noise. What does John Lennon have in common with Bach and Banksy? What behaviors do Thomas Edison, Ben Franklin, and Tim...
Article Member Spotlight: Uma Meyyappan, LPL Financial
November 9, 2021
Uma Meyyappan is the Senior Vice President of Digital Innovation and New Venture Platform at LPL Financial. We spoke with Meyyappan as part of our member spotlight series.