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Article What No One Says About Politics & Culture
March 1, 2016 | By Sreten Gajic
“[C]ulture and politics both will have big impacts on the course your innovation program follows,” writes Sreten Gajic, a former executive at Assurant and Coca-Cola.
Article Failure Shouldn’t Come as a Surprise
February 26, 2016 | By Julia Austin
The odds are, when you push the limits of what your company has done before, you will encounter failure. The best organizations expect it and are ready to learn.
Article Achieving Impact: Advice from Your Peers
February 25, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
We gathered twenty senior innovation, product, and strategy executives, in collaboration with our partner Mindjet. The goal: to discuss how to create sustainable innovation programs.
On Demand Live Call Trek Exec on Trends, Social Media, and Why a Skunkworks Failed
February 24, 2016
Trek exec Chad Manuell discusses why one of the company’s skunkworks didn’t work. Other topics of discussion include trends in the industry and long-term thinking.
Article Why Assurant Designed a Strategy Game for Employees to Play
February 24, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Among the goals behind Assurant’s Strategy Learning Game: helping employees understand the company’s direction and driving a shift to urgency. Melissa Kivett explains…
Article Operationally-Focused Innovation at ExxonMobil
February 22, 2016
The innovation team at ExxonMobil provides a look at their Grassroots Innovation Forum, focused on sourcing and testing operational innovations.
Article How Collaborations Drive Intel Labs’ IoT Strategy
February 17, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
Martin Curley of Intel Labs Europe shares how an “Open Innovation 2.0” approach is helping Intel work with customers to prototype and deploy IoT technologies.
Article Three Keys to Longevity in Corporate Venture Capital
February 15, 2016 | By Kyle Fugere, Contributing Columnist and former Head of Ventures at dunnhumby
Corporate venture capital initiatives are often a by-product of a booming economy — here today and gone tomorrow. Kyle Fugere shares strategies to help your initative thrive.
Article Humana’s Chief Innovation Officer: ‘Co-Creation is the New Way’
February 9, 2016 | By Alicia Kelso
Chris Kay of Humana discusses how the insurer is collaborating and co-creating with startups, and outlines his process for going from ideation to market.
Article So You’re Trying to Innovate in a Heavily-Regulated Industry…
February 8, 2016 | By Naomi Fried, Contributing Columnist & Former Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital
There are even more barriers to innovation in industries that are heavily regulated. Legal requirements can loom large and can stifle innovation — if you don’t address them. Here’s how…
Article Assessment: How Well Developed is Your Corporate Innovation Strategy?
February 7, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Developed by InnoLead's Editorial team, with input from corporate innovation executives, this assessment will help you evaluate the current maturity of your organization's innovation strategy.
Article Four Steps to Getting Your Innovative Subculture to Spread
February 5, 2016
Michael Foster, who has developed innovation programs at companies like Dun & Bradstreet and Fiserv, provides four tips on elevating the “subculture” of innovation…
Article Universal Orlando Exec on Deploying Tech to Theme Parks
February 3, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Talking about ideas is great, but it’s just vapor. Al Callier of Universal explains how his team takes ideas from “vapor to paper to brick,” and what technology they explore.
Article Incrementalism is Not the Way to Disruptive Innovation
February 1, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Ten observations about the politics and realities of innovating in an established organization, from Phil Swisher, the former VP of innovation at the biggest private bank in the U.S.
Article Why Toyota Set up New $1 Billion Research Group as a ‘Skunkworks’
January 27, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
The new institute has four initial mandates, including helping the carmaker explore possible products opportunities in “indoor mobility.” CEO Gill Pratt explains…
Article How Thales Group is Chasing Growth with New Xplor Initiative
January 25, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Pete Roney of Thales USA says that the rationale for launching a new innovation effort was clear: The company wasn’t thinking creatively enough to keep up with its peers.
Article How Kaiser Permanente Puts the Consumer First
January 20, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Tad Funahashi of Kaiser Permanente talks about how the health care delivery system is working to become less MD-centric, and more consumer-centric…
Article Powering Innovation in Rolls-Royce’s Engineering Culture
January 18, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
Hardev Ubhi of Rolls-Royce discusses how to to bring new tools and thinking into an organization that is understandably obsessed with safety, precision, and quality.
Article Alex Osterwalder on The Dual Operating System
January 14, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
What's one big idea CEOs and innovators will need to grapple with in 2016? Here's what Alex Osterwalder, developer of the Business Model Canvas, has to say...
Article Alex Osterwalder: ‘Business Models Expire Like Yogurt in the Fridge’
January 13, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Alex Osterwalder, one of the developers of the Business Model Canvas, discusses how companies use the tool; its relationship to lean startup; and the challenges companies face.