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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.
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.
Article An Annotated Map of 20 Corporate Innovation Hubs in Atlanta
March 9, 2020
We put together this map of 20 key corporate innovation hubs in Atlanta. The list includes innovation centers, accelerators, and corporate venture capital funds.
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 Overcoming Politics and Internal Resistance: Advice from Your Peers
March 3, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
At our Silicon Valley Deep Dive event in February, we asked a group of 30 innovation, emerging technology, and R&D leaders from industries like apparel, financial services, telecom, and manufacturing to discuss the things that can help overcome organizational resistance to innovation — as well as some of the things...
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 General Motors and IBM on the Role of a Silicon Valley R&D Outpost
February 24, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
R&D leaders from General Motors and IBM discuss the mission of the companies’ Silicon Valley outposts, and the importance of tracking first movers in an emerging market.
Article Six Ways to Integrate Startups Without Crushing Their Spirits
February 19, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Raphael Guillet was a co-founder of the first startup that the $4 billion hospitality company Accor acquired. Since then, Accor has bought about a dozen other startups…