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Article At NASA, Introducing a New Openness to Innovation
April 10, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
In a safety-obsessed culture, how do you suggest new ways to innovate? Omar Hatamleh, the first Chief Innovation Officer for the engineering group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, shares.
Article Maintaining C-Suite Support: The Four Key Questions
April 10, 2020 | By Alex Slawsby
For many innovation teams, this is a chance to create significant short-term value for business unit leaders who may become your long-term allies. Unfortunately, when it comes to cutting costs, it is all too easy for senior executives to simply put innovation teams and their budgets on the chopping block.
Article AXA Next on Shifts in the Startup World, and Fueling Innovation Virtually
April 9, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
The team from AXA Next US shares tips for running distributed teams, and changes they are seeing in the startup landscape.
Article SNHU’s Paul LeBlanc on Higher Ed in a Time of Intense Change
April 8, 2020
Paul LeBlanc, President of Southern New Hampshire University, discusses how colleges are managing the shift to online education and adapting during the coronavirus pandemic.
Article Every Online Event We’re Hosting
April 8, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
We have a really simple aim: to put on the best virtual events on the Internet. Here’s what is coming up, both for members and non-members.
Podcast Coming Soon: Innovation Answered Season 4
April 7, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Innovation Answered’s fourth season starts May 5, 2020. Find out what you can expect to learn from the show’s producer, Kaitlin Milliken, and intern, Molli DeRosa.
Article New Resource: Strengthening Your Case for Continued Investment
April 7, 2020 | By Alex Slawsby
Will you need to defend your initiatives in 2020? Is it possible to make the case for continued, or even increased, investment in innovation right now? Here’s a new downloadable resource to help.
Article How One Corporate Innovator Assembled a Volunteer Team to Print Face Shields
April 6, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Shashi Jain’s day job is Intel. But he’s working almost another full-time shift as an organizer of the Portland 3D Printing Lab, which has been producing face shields for healthcare workers…
Article What Innovation Metrics Matter Most in 2020
April 3, 2020
Innovation execs shared what metrics their teams track on a recent IL member videoconference. Contributors joined in from the pharmaceutical, food and beverages, financial services, health care, luxury goods, tech, and materials industries.
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.
Article What We Stopped: 16 Activities That May Not Improve Culture
March 31, 2020 | By Alex Slawsby
As part of our recent research, we asked 259 leaders of innovation if there were activities they’d stopped doing that were initially intended to influence organizational culture…
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.
Article 12 of the Best Tools for Real-Time Team Collaboration
March 23, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
What are you using to collaborate, run brainstorming sessions, and move projects forward at this moment of remote work? Here are some tools our community recommended.
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...
Article How to Create the Foundation for a Corporate VC Program
March 16, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Amish Parashar, a Silicon Valley-based venture capitalist, share tips for building more successful corporate venture programs. Get tips on staffing, collaboration, and more.