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Article How Britain’s Metro Bank Created a ‘Lighthouse Identity’
September 6, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Fast Company co-founder Bill Taylor discusses his book, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations do Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways. Read the excerpt…
Article Should Business-to-Business Companies Deliver Experiences?
August 30, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Is Uber is part of the experience economy? Should B2B companies bother to try to create experiences? Joe Pine, co-author of The Experience Economy, offers his answers.
On Demand Live Call Joe Pine on How To Create Experiences in Retail
August 30, 2016
We spoke with Joe Pine about how social media and virtual reality are changing the nature of experiences; Uber, Hilton, and Capital One; and more.
Article Google VP Talks Getting Resources & Confronting the Future
August 12, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Execs are too complacent when confronting seismic industry shifts, says Ivy Ross, who leads Google’s wearable computing project. “Why…stay at a hotel, versus in an Airbnb room?”
Article Sandpaper: An Essential Item for the Corporate Innovator’s Toolbox
July 20, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
You may want to embrace an innovation strategy that seeks to eliminate the things that aggravate employees or customers, which pay off in a shorter timeframe, with little risk.
Article The Secret of Corporate Innovation Is…
July 19, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Here are seven things we see having a big impact inside large organizations, and seven things that set you up for failure.
Article Former Gap Exec: Is Innovation Really Everyone’s Job?
July 1, 2016
Michael Perman formerly of Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss & Co. writes, “Yes, everyone needs to have EMPATHY, but in reality, innovation requires talent, passion, and tenacity.”
Article How Adobe’s Legal Group Met the Challenges of Innovation
June 20, 2016 | By Donna Kolnes, Associate General Counsel, Adobe
How do you create legal guidelines for employee innovation that allow people try new things, but keep a company out of hot water? Donna Kolnes of Adobe explains.
Article Advice from Cambia Health’s Chief Innovation Officer
June 15, 2016 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
Five years after starting the innovation team, Cambia Health Solutions' Mohan Nair shares what he learned about different innovators, including some you may want to avoid.
Article Six Tips From Eastman Chemical on Managing a Distributed Team
May 31, 2016 | By Farrell Calabrese, Contributing Columnist and former Global Corporate Sustainability Manager at Eastman
Managing a distributed team comes with its own challenges. Creative Manager Farrell Calabrese shares tools she uses to manage the Eastman Innovation Lab.
Article Executive Perspectives on Innovation Software
May 2, 2016
Selected comments from the executives who participated in our Q1 2016 survey on innovation software.
Article Clay Christensen on Uber, Strategy & Jobs-to-be-Done
April 26, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Clay Christensen of Harvard Business School discusses Uber and disruptive business models; why a winning strategy is only temporary; and more...
On Demand Live Call McKinsey & Co. Exec on the Perils of Innovation Committees
April 25, 2016
Marla Capozzi of McKinsey & Co.'s Global Strategy & Innovation Practice discusses why an organization’s commitment to innovation shouldn’t wax and wane and more.
Article Dartmouth’s Vijay Govindarajan on Innovation Strategy
April 18, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
How can organizations create the future when all their energy is spent on the present? That challenge is at the center of Vijay Govindarajan book “The Three Box Solution."
Article Qualcomm on Building an Internal Startup-Venture Capital Ecosystem
March 21, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Plenty of innovation programs struggle to produce tangible impact in areas that matter to senior leadership. Navrina Singh of Qualcomm explains how they’ve been doing it…
Article Former Pixar SVP on Creative Conflict & Why Well-Designed Offices Win
March 10, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
“Creative abrasion is the ability to have difficult conversations,” says Greg Brandeau, former Pixar SVP of Technology. Brandeau shares his thoughts and an assessment.
Article What No One Says About Politics & Culture
March 1, 2016 | By Sreten Gajic
“[C]ulture and politics both will have big impacts on the course your innovation program follows,” writes Sreten Gajic, a former executive at Assurant and Coca-Cola.
Article Failure Shouldn’t Come as a Surprise
February 26, 2016 | By Julia Austin
The odds are, when you push the limits of what your company has done before, you will encounter failure. The best organizations expect it and are ready to learn.
Article Achieving Impact: Advice from Your Peers
February 25, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
We gathered twenty senior innovation, product, and strategy executives, in collaboration with our partner Mindjet. The goal: to discuss how to create sustainable innovation programs.
Article Why Assurant Designed a Strategy Game for Employees to Play
February 24, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Among the goals behind Assurant’s Strategy Learning Game: helping employees understand the company’s direction and driving a shift to urgency. Melissa Kivett explains…