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Article Throw Out the Innovation Funnel, and Replace It With a Calendar
May 22, 2025 | By Tina Lambert
In this excerpt, marketing and innovation executive Tina Lambert calls the idea of an innovation funnel "very unrealistic," and proposes an alternative — the three-year calendar.
Article How the US Dept. of Defense is Making Open Innovation Work
May 19, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
The OnRamp program at the US Military’s Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) got started in 2023 as an effort to lower the barriers for non-traditional technology companies that wanted to work with the Department of Defense (DoD) — but weren’t already suppliers. We talk with Cassie Muffley, Acting Director of the...
On Demand Webcast AI’s New Frontier: How Digital Co-Workers are Shaping the Future of Innovation
May 13, 2025
This webcast replay features Kofi Gyasi of NotedSource and Dr. Anand Rao of Carnegie Mellon University discussing how Hybrid AI is redefining innovation.
Article Book Excerpt: Secrets of Stakeholder Whispering
May 12, 2025 | By Bill Shander, author
"Stakeholder Whispering requires identifying your stakeholders," writes Bill Shander. "But it is also about making sure your stakeholders identify and recognize (and prioritize) their stakeholders." Read our exclusive excerpt...
Video Market Intelligence Briefing: H1 2025
May 6, 2025 | By Alex Slawsby
Alex Slawsby delivers a March 2025 market intelligence briefing, with input from Allison Collings of NRG and Daniel Eckman from Yum Brands, as well as InnoLead co-founder and membership liaison Scott Cohen.
Article AllianceBernstein’s CAIO is Shaping the Future of Investment Management with AI
May 6, 2025 | By Nicole Lewis, Contributing Writer
We talked to AllianceBernstein’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Andrew Chin about how the firm is applying AI — from traditional machine learning to generative tools — to improve investment decisions and employee efficiency.
Article What’s Changing About the Chief Transformation Officer Role in 2025
May 2, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
We examine the new report from Monitor Deloitte, which surveyed 200 transformation executives from a range of industries. Budgets are growing, but execution focus remains a challenge.
Article Key Takeaways from the Momentum AI Conference in New York
April 30, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
If there was a universal takeaway from this week’s Momentum AI conference in New York, it was this: AI literacy is now the new baseline for competitive advantage. Here's our dispatch from the event...
Article From Seed to Scale: Advice on Building Successful Startup Partnerships
April 30, 2025 | By Paulina Karpis, B Capital
The former Head of Business Technology at ServiceTitan, Pranav Shahi, shares his framework for evaluating new technologies, structuring startup pilots, and scaling innovation with measurable business impact. He also explores how enterprises can engage with emerging tech while maintaining commercial discipline.
Article Workiva CIO: GenAI Creates a ‘New Kind of Change Management Challenge’
April 23, 2025 | By Paulina Karpis, B Capital
As CIO of Workiva, Kim Huffman leads enterprise technology strategy with a focus on innovation, scalability, and responsible AI. In this conversation, Huffman outlines her three-pillar framework for evaluating startup partnerships, her four-part approach to AI governance, and the evolving role of the CIO as a business strategist.
On Demand Webcast How U.S. Bank Turns Disruption into a Competitive Edge
April 21, 2025
Disruption is no longer a future threat, but a present reality. In this webcast, Andrew Cantrell, Vice President of Applied Foresights at U.S. Bank, shares how his team filters signal from noise to anticipate change before it arrives. Alongside Greg Hackenberg of Speeda Edge, Cantrell reveals how structured foresight, innovation...
Article Innovation in the Services Industry: Inside $3B White & Case
April 21, 2025 | By Scott Cohen
Isabel Parker joined White & Case as Chief Innovation Officer in 2024. She now leads global innovation efforts at the $3.2 billion firm. We spoke with her about building a culture of innovation, integrating GenAI into legal services, and how the firm balances bold experimentation with responsible AI use.
Article AI’s ‘Printing Press’ Moment — and Why Fortune 1000s Are Lagging
April 16, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
At the Imagination in Action AI Summit held at MIT this week, there was no mistaking the mood: we’re no longer on the verge of a major transformation, we’re in the middle of it. Contributing writer Sue Liang reports...
Article Amazon Web Services Exec: GenAI isn’t a ‘Magic Elixir,’ Needs to Target Business Outcomes
April 14, 2025 | By Rachel Curry, Contributing Writer
Since launching for call center customers in 2017, cloud-based contact center optimization service Amazon Connect has been on an upward trajectory, becoming one of the fastest-growing AWS services by revenue. We talk with Pasquale DeMaio, Vice President of Amazon Connect at Amazon Web Services about integrating AI.
Resource Blue Cross Blue Shield: Constructive Collaboration with Business Units and Functions
April 12, 2025
This 13-page PDF presents the outcomes of a session led by David Crean, Chief Innovation Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, at the 2024 Impact conference. It explores key success metrics that business leaders focus on; how those are different from the metrics innovation leaders focus on; attitudes...
Article Inside the New General Motors-NVIDIA Partnership
April 10, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
"We're integrating AI into vehicles thoughtfully, prioritizing safety and customer value over technological novelty," says GM SVP Dave Richardson. Here's our exclusive interview...
On Demand Webcast Innovation’s Arc: What’s Timeless, What’s Changed, and What We Still Get Wrong
April 7, 2025
Innovation isn’t just about the next big thing — it’s about knowing when to hunt for the new and when to harvest what works. In this recent webcast, Trevor Anulewicz, Vice President, Strategy, Launch by NTT DATA, unpacks the timeless elements of innovation, from attracting creative minds to navigating the...
Resource Avoid the ‘Doom Loop’ and Create More Predictable Winners
April 4, 2025
How can innovators beat the odds and create more winners? Stuart Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg, co-authors of Predictable Winners, share strategies to improve success rates, avoid pitfalls, and manage uncertainty in this replay of our April 2025 members-only meeting.
Article Why Hewlett Packard Enterprise Shifted to Skills-Based Hiring and Training
April 1, 2025 | By Dawn Kawamoto, Contributing Writer
We talk with HPE VP Sadie Bell about shifting to skills-based recruiting and training.
Article How GenAI is Being Used Inside Big Organizations: March 2025 Data
March 27, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
With 109 qualified responses, here's survey data on how innovation and R&D professionals say about how the use of GenAI tools is impacting their work.