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Article Five Tips to Navigate Uncertainty This April
April 2, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Innovators have faced unprecedented challenges in the past month, as COVID-19 grew into a global pandemic. Suddenly, teams have become completely remote and, in some cases, may be dealing with budget scrutiny or strategic pivots. This March, our coverage has focused on providing your team with resources to navigate this...
On Demand Webcast How Your Team Can Acclimate to Remote Work
April 1, 2020
Scott Berkun, author of the book The Year Without Pants: Wordpress.com and the Future of Work, shares best practices for running a distributed team. Watch the video.
Podcast Pursuing Innovation During COVID-19
March 31, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Experts share best practices for teams as they navigate uncertainty. Topics include shifting teams’ priorities, switching to remote work, and cultivating a “service oriented” mindset.
Article Working from Home: Seven Tips for Doing It Productively
March 25, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Christian Ponce from LogMeIn shares tips to help teams effectively innovate from home, stay connected, and balance their jobs and home lives.
Article One Quick Thing: IL’s Live Zoom Meeting
March 25, 2020
Join us for a half-hour Zoom meeting to talk about what’s happening right now in the world of corporate innovation.
On Demand Webcast Navigating through Chaotic Times
March 19, 2020
Do you feel like challenging times may be ahead? Experts with experience at DuPont, Starbucks, Bayer, and more discuss how they’re reading the tea leaves.
On Demand Webcast Eight Practices to Fire Up Your Innovation Culture
March 18, 2020
Victor Assad and Arthur Liberian share eight practices that can help companies fire up their innovation culture. Find out how your team can unleash creativity.
Article Keeping Innovation Alive in the Time of COVID-19
March 17, 2020 | By Blade Kotelly, Contributing Columnist and Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management
“We’ve entered an unstable and economically volatile period that may serve up the biggest challenges of your career,” writes MIT senior lecturer Blade Kotelly, ”and will require every business to innovate in ways they never have before.” Here’s his concrete advice on how you and your team can keep innovation...
Podcast Podcast: Loonshots — Crazy Ideas that Just Might Work
March 10, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
How can companies embrace risky — but potentially revolutionary — ideas? Authors Safi Bahcall and Hugh Molotsi tackle this question at InnoLead’s 2019 Impact event.
On Demand Webcast Boundaries, Blockers, and Overcoming the Limits of Innovation
March 5, 2020
Learn methods for recognizing the boundaries to innovation practices, and how to work around them. Get advice on how to move your organization into a position to thrive.
Article Five Innovation Best Practices to Kick Off March
March 2, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
We released one video from Impact 2019 each week this month. We have also gathered five best practices from our February online coverage below.
Article Don’t Celebrate Failure, Celebrate Trying to Solve Hard Problems
February 27, 2020
Instead of celebrating failure, writes Brian Mullen, a former hospital innovation team member, teams should celebrate attempts to solve problems.
Video How General Mills Uses ‘Breakup Letters’ to Better Understand Consumers
February 18, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Jodi Benson shares how General Mills puts consumer needs first, and how a 150+ year old company is evolving the way it innovates to better meet those needs.
Video ‘Loonshots’: How to Support Crazy Ideas That Just Might Work
February 13, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Scott Kirsner
Ideas that have the potential to reshape industries may end up stuck in the corporate basement. So how can companies embrace risky ideas? Authors Safi Bahcall and Hugh Molotsi serve up answers in this video.
Article Six Tips for Getting ‘Customers’ to Buy What You’re Selling
February 6, 2020 | By Chris Mayer, Contributing Columnist and Independent Consultant at CMayer Consulting
“One way to ensure alignment,” writes Chris Mayer, “is to think of the innovation initiative as a consumer-oriented business with colleagues as customers.” Mayer, who served as the first Chief Innovation Officer at a large construction company, offers guidance on how to do that.
Article Book Excerpt: Incentivizing the Behaviors That Support Innovation
January 29, 2020
What if businesses focused on company performance today as well as a year from now? Alex Goryachev of Cisco explains.
Article How Disney’s Philosophy on Failure Drives Growth
January 27, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
“I have always tried to make everyone aware that failure is not a corporate death sentence,” says former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Here are some of the biggest failures Disney has experienced in the last 20 years — and how the entertainment giant has bounced back.
On Demand Webcast Ask Us Anything Webcast, with General Mills & Citi Ventures
January 17, 2020
Beth Devin of Citi Ventures and Kirsten Aune of General Mills joined us to answer innovation questions submitted by our members.
Article Banking Insights and Identifying Post-Recession Opportunities
January 16, 2020
“Being seen as a group that is purely visionary and focused on idea generation can make your group vulnerable to cuts,” writes Michael Perman, a former innovation and marketing leader at Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss. Perman explains how to avoid that fate when recessions, or other organizational stressors, are...
Article What to Do When the Cost-Cutting Knives Come Out
January 16, 2020 | By Rick Waldron, Contributing Columnist & Former VP of Innovation Strategy, Nike
When times are good, corporate innovation groups often get a pass. What do you do when things aren’t so good? Here’s advice from Rick Waldron, a former innovation leader at Nike and Intel.