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Article GE’s Chief Marketing Officer Talks Innovation, Partnerships
April 29, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
GE's marketing chief Beth Comstock discussed the company's views on crowdsourcing, the Internet of things, the lean startup movement, and more. Quick bullets inside...
Article Why Delphi Planted an Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley
April 16, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Delphi Labs director John Absmeier explains how the automotive components giant is partnering, investing, and plugging into the Silicon Valley ecosystem…
Article VC the GE Way: Lessons from the Firm’s Strategy
March 31, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
GE chief executive Jeff Immelt called a meeting in 2012 to rethink the company's investing strategy. The result was the creation of a new GE Ventures team...
Article Ten Insights from Textron’s Scorpion Jet Program
March 19, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Textron set an audacious goal: Get a new military plane from concept to the runway in under two years. Execs shared what they learned on the journey...
Article Learnings from Our Hospital’s First Hackathon
March 14, 2014
Innovation exec Lesley Solomon explains how Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston set up its first hackathon and what the event achieved for the organization...
Article Advice from Dell’s VC Group
March 6, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
After getting out of the venture capital game a decade ago, Dell recently jumped back in with both feet. Jim Lussier explains how the tech company’s approach is different…
Article Five Reasons You Shouldn’t Launch a Startup Accelerator
February 19, 2014
Want an innovation injection? Start an accelerator. At least, that seems to be the thinking at a growing number of companies, from from Barclays to Volkswagen to Disney...
Article Tracking the Corporate-Supported Startup Accelerators
February 14, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Major players like Disney, Airbus, and Deutsche Telekom have all launched their own accelerator programs to attract entrepreneurs working on ideas related to their businesses...
Article Learnings from GE on Connecting with Entrepreneurs
January 23, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
GE hunts for breakthrough ideas by engaging with startups and academic researchers in new ways. See how the group held a first-of-its-kind event last fall.
Article Tom Peters: 2014 Reading List
December 23, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Here's what author and management guru Tom Peters thinks you ought to be reading as we head into 2014...
Article Time Warner & Blue Cross on Starting Accelerators
November 26, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Execs from Time Warner, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and TechStars talk about the upside in supporting accelerator programs for entrepreneurs...
Article Inside iRobot’s “Business-Driven” Strategy
November 15, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Colin Angle says his most important jobs is protecting products that have left the safe confines of the R&D lab but haven't yet grown into significant businesses.
Article 3 Key Trends in Distributed Work
November 4, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
There's an shift happening, toward judicious use of distributed talent — whether it's full-timers or freelancers who prefer not to become anyone's employee...
Article Creating Networks is The New Competency
October 16, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Steve Case sat down with InnoLead to discuss some of the defensive tendencies of established organizations, and how to overcome them.
Article Athenahealth on Creating a Disrupter Ecosystem
October 11, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
With an initiative dubbed "More Disruption Please," CEO Jonathan Bush decided to give other companies access to his customer base...
Article J&J on Building Its Global Network of Innovation Centers
October 7, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The healthcare giant, headquartered in New Jersey, is opening innovation centers in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, London, and Boston...
Article Intel’s Brandon Barnett: Mapping the Future
September 21, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The chipmaker's Director of Business Innovation explains how he uses experiments, hackathons, and networks of experts to help Intel map out areas of potential.
Article Video: The Merits of Products Backed by the Crowd
September 11, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
With Onehundred, father-and-son duo David and Calvin Laituri are trying to create a tight feedback loop between a product's designer, its buyer, and its manufacturer. Includes a short video.
Article Spotted: World’s best-looking vending machine?
July 24, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Is there a duller environment than the typical airport gate? See how San Francisco-based Benefit Cosmetics is trying to shake things up with its new vending machines.
Article Blockbuster idea: Expanding markets by being multi-lingual
May 23, 2013
Hollywood studios aren't always enthusiastic when it comes to embracing a new technology. But a smartphone app from a stealthy startup called myLINGO could help them get more non-native English speakers into theaters, with almost no additional effort. Company co-founder Olenka Polak, who grew up in a household that spoke...