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Article Inside the Creation of D&B’s Cloud Innovation Center
February 16, 2015 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
An acquisition in 2014 gave Dun & Bradstreet a 49-person, cloud-focused software development team in Vancouver. Here's how that group has evolved...
Article Co-Creation: Vodafone, Thomson Reuters Share Lessons Learned
February 11, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Can two companies innovate together? Shannon Lucas of Vodafone Global Enterprise and Saidah Nash Carter of Thomson Reuters share their advice.
Article Frugal Innovation: Six Principles, a Case Study
February 11, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
The authors of the new book “Frugal Innovation” share six principles of frugal innovation, and an example from the book about Kingfisher…
On Demand Live Call Coke’s David Butler on Building a Program for ‘Exponential Growth’
February 9, 2015
VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship David Butler talks about his work to combine entrepreneurial ideas and speed with Coca-Cola’s scale and brand power.
Article Fast Company Founder on Corporate Innovation Challenges
February 4, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Twenty years after the launch of Fast Company magazine, Bill Taylor shares the challenges that face innovators in large organizations today...
Article Hallmark Exec on Retail Pop-Ups & New Brands
January 29, 2015 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Patti Streeper's job at Hallmark Cards is to help cultivate businesses that may not fit with the company's brand image — but ones that speak to new groups of customers...
Article Harvard Exec on Being Relevant in the Digital World
January 27, 2015 | By Judy Quinn
Perry Hewitt joined Harvard University in 2009. The mission, as she describes it, was to help the university “be relevant and relatable in the digital world.”
Article How can You Move the Needle?
January 23, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
We worked with a group of innovation executives to develop this list of “Innovation Approaches.” It endeavors to capture what innovation leaders are doing when they set strategy.
Article Inside MassMutual’s Radical Learning Initiative
January 20, 2015 | By Judy Quinn
Organizing supper clubs and offering classes on how to plan for the zombie apocalypse, a spin-out from MassMutual tries to target the future consumer. Here's how it works...
On Demand Live Call Hershey’s Exec on Using Experiments to Reduce Risk
January 16, 2015
Deborah Arcoleo, who runs the Advanced Innovation Center of Excellence at The Hershey Company, discusses investing in experiments and their role in reducing innovation risk.
On Demand Live Call Hershey’s Exec on Metrics, Learning, and Focusing Innovation
January 16, 2015
Deborah Arcoleo, talks about how Hershey’s thinks about innovating beyond its product portfolio, metrics, training, and more. Listen here…
Article How Pfizer Disrupted the Traditional Innovation Conference
January 14, 2015
A senior R&D leader at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer raved to us last November about the innovation gathering he'd just been to. "It was like TEDMED meets 'The Apprentice...'"
Article Who Wields the ‘Power of No’ at Your Company?
January 12, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Stuart Jenkins of Deckers Outdoor, says it's near-impossible to innovate if any one person can shoot down a good idea. Find out more about the power of no here...
Article Budget Cuts Close Turner Tech Office, Startup Accelerator
January 7, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Late December brought another unfortunate example of corporate budget cuts bringing the curtain down on an innovation team — this one at Turner Broadcasting...
Article Changing Culture at BNP Paribas Cardif
January 6, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Héloïse Lauret of BNP Paribas Cardif discusses the three main culture-change initiatives the French insurance firm has launched — and the importance of building trust.
Article Kennametal Exec on Innovation Governance & ‘Fast Fail’ Testing
December 22, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Colin Tilzey, head of the Innovation Ventures Group at the $3 billion tool-maker, talks about the evolution of the innovation governance committee...
Article Insights from PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel
December 17, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
In this audio excerpt, Peter Thiel discusses how internal politics can tilt decision-making in large companies towards conventional ideas and away from what is truly disruptive.
On Demand Webcast Fidelity VP on Tools for Innovation Teams
December 17, 2014
Rick Smyers of Fidelity Investments explains how you can put the right strategy, tools, and people in place to make a real impact — and details some of his team’s successful projects.
Article Government Exec on Quick Hits & Innovating Procurement
December 15, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts' first Government Innovation Officer talks about the importance of quick hits and implementing a crowdsourcing initiative...
Article How Panera Bread Reinvented Its Customer Experience
December 10, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Blaine Hurst of Panera Bread explains how he worked with CEO and founder Ron Shaich to design and test the “Panera 2.0” concept, working out of a single cafe near Boston’s Fenway Park.