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On Demand Webcast Innovating Beyond Products
March 24, 2025
This webcast explores the ways that companies are redefining customer relationships by focusing on collaborative innovation, rather than just selling. Featuring leaders from Dow Inc. and Innoisight.
Article How $8B Ally Financial is Advancing AI, Mobile, and Personalization
March 21, 2025 | By Rachel Curry, Contributing Writer
Consumers want you "to solve a problem for them, and money is the most personal thing they have," says Satish Muthukrishnan, Chief Information, Digital and Data Officer at Ally Financial. We talk with him about the company's mobile experience, AI, and hyper-personalization.
Article How Covetrus is Applying AI to Help Veterinary Practices Be More Productive
March 19, 2025 | By Paula Hendrickson, Contributing Writer
Just as AI is transforming human healthcare, veterinary medicine is undergoing a similar shift. Animal health company Covetrus is integrating AI into its platform to streamline workflows, enhance clinical decision-making, and improve patient care. Chief Product and Technology Officer Scot Gillespie explains…
Article Book Excerpt: How to Predict What Your Competitors Will Do
March 18, 2025 | By Ilya Trakhtenberg, L.E.K. Consulting, Stuart E. Jackson, L.E.K Consulting
Understanding your competition means predicting how they will react, write Stuart E. Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg in Predictable Winners: A Handbook for Developing, Forecasting, and Launching New Products and Services. Success requires defining your competitive set, recognizing direct and indirect competitors, and anticipating market shifts. By using competitive intelligence and...
Article A Dispatch from the HumanX AI Conference: What Will Drive the Next Phase of AI Progress?
March 14, 2025 | By Sue Liang, Head of Strategic Partnerships
Defining what AI progress looks like is still a challenge, writes Sue Liang, who attended this week's HumanX conference in Las Vegas. She discusses the vendor landscape, AI adoption, and the path forward.
Article What’s ‘Adaptive Retail’? Walmart Tech Exec Explains
March 13, 2025 | By Rachel Curry, Contributing Writer
You may have heard of omnichannel retail, or experiential retail. But one of the world's biggest retailers, Arkansas-based Walmart, is now working to popularize the concept of "adaptive retail." Tech Strategy VP Anupriya Sharma explains....
Article BMO Financial Group Chief AI Officer on Where AI is Being Deployed, and Quantum Opportunities
March 11, 2025 | By Nicole Lewis, Contributing Writer
Kristen Milchanowski joined BMO Financial Group as Chief Artificial Intelligence and Data Officer at the BMO Financial Group in October 2024. We spoke with Milchanowski recently about how the firm has been leveraging AI internally, as well as its recent decision to join IBM's Quantum Network to access quantum computing infrastructure.
Article Top 10 AI Tools Being Used by Innovation and R&D Professionals: March 2025 Data
March 10, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
With 105 qualified responses, here's what we're seeing from innovation and R&D professionals in March 2025. The question we asked: "Which AI tools are you consistently using as part of innovation-related activities (partnerships, scouting, product development, prototypes, experiments)?"
Article ADP Ventures Chief on Successful Corporate-Startup Partnerships
February 28, 2025 | By Paulina Karpis, B Capital
As the leader of ADP Ventures, Usman “Oz” Khan oversees strategic investment and innovation initiatives at one of the largest HR technology companies. Khan discusses the importance of startup partnerships, the role of AI in HR tech, and how ADP Ventures supports innovation across a large and complex enterprise. This...
On Demand Webcast Harnessing Breakthrough Technologies to Stay Ahead of the Curve
February 28, 2025
In an era of constant disruption and accelerating technological change, staying ahead means more than just spotting trends — it requires the ability to act on them. In this webcast, Gary Walia, Director of Grid of the Future at Southwire, and Jan Fischer, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Innosabi, explore how...
Article Why is There So Much Hype Around AI Agents in 2025?
February 26, 2025 | By Curtis Michelson
Curtis Michelson serves up a glossary of terms related to agentic AI, as well as a look at how the AI agent space is developing in 2025.
Article Analyzing the Three-Year Rise and Fall of Corporate Innovation Efforts
February 24, 2025 | By Robyn Bolton, Founder & Chief Navigator, MileZero
The ABCs of Innovation gives you a map to make innovation last beyond the three-year mark, writes Robyn Bolton in her new book, Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide for Turning Bold Ideas into Tangible Results. The three elements, Behavior, Architecture, and Culture, must be built and nurtured in tandem to...
Article Nvidia Exec on What’s Next for AI Adoption in Financial Services
February 13, 2025 | By Rachel Curry, Contributing Writer
We spoke with Nvidia's Kevin Levitt in February, just after the release of the company's latest "State of AI in Financial Services" report to learn more about where AI is headed in this key sector.
Article Albertsons Exec on Startup Partnerships and Where GenAI is Having an Impact
February 11, 2025 | By Paulina Karpis, B Capital
As Albertsons’ GVP of Technology and Engineering, Maria Latushkin is reshaping how one of America’s largest retailers merges in-store and online shopping. We talk with Latushkin about cultivating startup partnerships that thrive at enterprise scale, the pragmatic realities of deploying GenAI across vast workforces, and her vision for smarter, frictionless...
On Demand Webcast From Prompts to Profits: How Generative AI is Transforming Innovation
February 10, 2025
This webcast replay features Jan Beranek, Founder of FifthRow, and serial entrepreneur Paul Campbell exploring real-world examples of businesses leveraging generative AI to drive creativity, streamline processes, and unlock new opportunities.
Article Book Excerpt: An Example of an Amazon-Style PRFAQ Doc
February 10, 2025 | By Marcelo Calbucci
Used often inside Amazon, "a PRFAQ (Press Release + Frequently Asked Question) is a framework for articulating in writing an innovation, capturing the key facts, assumptions, and hypotheses for strategic decision making," writes Marcelo Calbucci. Here's an example...
Article Start with the ABCs to Get Better Performance From Your Team
February 7, 2025 | By Paula Davis, Stress & Resilience Institute
There are three essential nutrients at the heart of thriving, intrinsic motivation, engagement, and high performance at work, writes Paula Davis in her new book. They are autonomy, belonging, and challenge. Read our exclusive excerpt.
Article The Innovation Game: Can You Make Innovation a Lasting Capability?
February 6, 2025
If corporate innovation can sometimes feel like a game, it's one set to hard mode. Success requires relationship-building, resource-gathering, and constant learning to make it past the traps and pitfalls you’ll inevitably encounter. Download the large-format discussion document...
Article McKinsey Report Finds Employees Moving Faster with AI Than Leaders
February 3, 2025 | By Steven Melendez
Among those who said their organizations are moving too slow, the biggest reason for moving was "talent skill gaps," which 46 percent cited. An overview of the January 2025 report is inside...
Article How to Use a Reverse Income Statement to Assess Experiments
February 3, 2025 | By Wim Vandenhouweele
How to use a simplified version of a Reverse Income Statement to define and value the experiment's key assumption(s). Includes a downloadable spreadsheet example.