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On Demand Live Call Kelly Services Exec on Impact Payments and Disruptive Ideas
December 5, 2014
Kelly Services’ Rolf Kleiner talks about his CEO’s expectations; developing a process for collecting ideas; and one high-potential idea Kelly Services is preparing to roll out.
Article 12 Interview Questions to Set You Up for Success
November 5, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
An innovation leader from financial services shared the questions he uses in conversations with people who sponsor or collaborate with the innovation team.
Article Google Execs Share Slides on Innovation, Culture & Hiring
October 16, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Slides from Google executives. Among their insights: “Most companies today are run to minimize risk, not maximize freedom and speed.”
On Demand Live Call Humana Exec on Consultants, Mix of Projects, Reporting to CEO
September 19, 2014
Nate Bellinger of Humana talks about the 15-year history of Humana’s innovation initiatives and some of the lessons they’ve learned as it has evolved.
Article What are You Focused on This Fall?
September 10, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
We asked about the issues, challenges and opportunities you’re focused on this fall. Here are the ten most interesting — and representative — answers we got.
Article Setting Innovation Goals at American Cancer Society
August 20, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
The American Cancer Society's new Managing Director of Product Innovation talks about building an innovation team, setting goals, and collaborating within a large non-profit...
Q&A Advice: Should Innovation Teams Strive to Impact Revenue/Costs?
July 25, 2014
A new innovation leader in the utility industry asks: "Should our team aim to quantify the impact we have on revenues, or reducing costs, at our company?"
Article Innovation Matures from Skunkworks to True Partner
July 2, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Aaron Proietti explains how his group’s mission has evolved, shifting from an isolated “skunkworks”s to more of a consultancy to the business units…
Article Why Lowe’s Innovation Lab Hired Sci-Fi Writers to Guide Strategy
July 1, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Kyle Nel of Lowe’s Innovation Labs explains why the home improvement retailer created a comic book to help executives evaluate possible future scenarios.
Article Google Execs Explain How the Company Spurs Innovation
June 25, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Google executives offer an inside look at how the company hires, why reasonable goals are not good enough, and how internal projects gain or lose momentum.
Article Inside Moen’s Prototype-Driven Product Development Strategy
June 23, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Moen’s SVP of Global Strategic Development describes the customer-focused innovation process behind a new line of motion-sensitive faucets…
Article eBay Innovation Vice President: ‘Evangelize Early & Often’
June 17, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Steve Yankovich talks about how his team “graduates” its projects to business units, and why it’s so important to be able to kill low-potential projects. Get more insights…
Article Nancy Shea: Turning Your CEO into a Fully-Vested Partner
June 5, 2014
"You really have to be careful what you wish for when you talk about getting your CEO involved with innovation," says Nancy Shea of Kraft Foods, Ashland Inc., and World Kitchen...
Article Puma Exec on Keeping Score of Innovation
May 27, 2014 | By Julie Donnelly
"If someone on the team is not a little uncomfortable," says Global Director of Innovation and Strategy Louis Joseph, "then it’s probably a little too safe.”
Article From Disney: Consumer Insights and the Seven Dwarfs
May 14, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Karen Kricorian explains how Disney's parks and resorts group approaches research: "When you think you know something that's when you need to shake up your thinking."
Article Hacking Hierarchies: Lessons from Houghton Mifflin
May 13, 2014 | By Julie Donnelly
Mary Cullinane of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, talks about breaking down walls between print and digital products and hacking away at hierarchies, and being customer-centric.
Article Six Tips from Innovation VP at Partners HealthCare
May 6, 2014 | By Julie Donnelly
Chris Coburn of Partners HealthCare shares tips on maximizing innovation efforts, including five key metrics for measuring success. Find out more...
Article Why You Should Kill Off ‘Zombie Projects’
May 1, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Innosight managing partner Scott Anthony says the problem could be too many "zombie projects" — and an organizational inability to kill them...
Article How Vodafone Built a Network of Innovation Champions
April 18, 2014
Shannon Lucas explains how a small innovation team inside the telecom giant Vodafone has cultivated a global network of 40 innovation champions...
Article Chubb Global Innovation VP: ‘Stop The Innovation Carnival’
April 8, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Chubb, Global Innovation VP Gerry Myers explains how the insurer created a "social layer" for innovation, to help weave innovation into employees' daily activity.