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  ArticleWhat are You Focused on This Fall?

  September 10, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  We asked about the issues, challenges and opportunities you’re focused on this fall. Here are the ten most interesting — and representative — answers we got.
• ArticleHow Sargento Created a Product with $50M in First Year Revenue

  September 2, 2014 | By Judy Quinn

  Rod Hogan of privately-held Sargento Foods, explains how a dialogue with consumers helped the company create a product that produced $50 million in revenue...
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  ArticleLessons from AGCO: Successful University Collaborations

  August 26, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Ravi Godbole, from the agricultural equipment manufacturer, explains how university relationships fits into AGCO’s growth strategy and what pitfalls to avoid.
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  ArticleSetting Innovation Goals at American Cancer Society

  August 20, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  The American Cancer Society's new Managing Director of Product Innovation talks about building an innovation team, setting goals, and collaborating within a large non-profit...
• ArticleHow Heathrow Airport Clears Emerging Tech for Take-Off

  August 18, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  London’s Heathrow Airport handles 72 million passengers a year. Amidst the need for operational efficiency, Richard Harding explains what the innovation team has achieved.
• ArticleHow DuPont’s Innovation Centers Bring It Closer to Customers

  August 15, 2014 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager

  Karen Weining of DuPont explains how the pioneering materials company has been collaborating with customers at its network of 12 innovation centers around the world.
• ArticleWhat are Fidelity, Schlumberger & Others building for Glass?

  August 12, 2014

  Companies are experimenting with Glass apps for airline check-in personnel, oilfield workers, and assembly line workers. The hoped-for benefits are better service and more productivity...
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  ArticleWhy Intuit Says ‘You Never Know’ about Ideas until You Test ‘Em

  August 7, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Executive Bennett Blank explains how Intuit is creating infrastructure that encourages teams to test ideas in the market to help determine which ideas hold real promise. 
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  On Demand Live CallXerox CTO on Connecting Research to Customer Pain Points

  August 5, 2014

  Sophie Vandebroek of Xerox discusses how the company connects to emerging customer needs and how her team solves  customers problems fast.
• ArticleDisney SVP on How Accelerator Program Led to New Partnerships

  August 5, 2014

  With the Walt Disney Co. about to launch the second round of its Disney Accelerator program for startups, we caught up with Michael Abrams, Senior Vice President of Innovation.  
• ArticleGE’s Chief Marketing Officer on Opening up to Innovation

  July 30, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Beth Comstock talks about how GE pursues speed and growth through partnerships: investing in startups, crowdsourcing, & inviting inventors to use patents… 
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  Q&AAdvice: Should Innovation Teams Strive to Impact Revenue/Costs?

  July 25, 2014

  A new innovation leader in the utility industry asks: "Should our team aim to quantify the impact we have on revenues, or reducing costs, at our company?"
• ArticleHow Roche Pursues Patient-Centric Innovation

  July 22, 2014 | By Julie Donnelly

  Sheila Babnis offers an inside look at how the Swiss pharma giant’s innovation function was created and how it operates today, including tight partnerships with business units.
• ArticleWhy Lockheed Martin Bet Big on Large-Scale 3D Printing

  July 18, 2014 | By Judy Quinn

  Execs at Lockheed Martin are demonstrating that 3D printing isn’t just for prototypes — they’re already producing parts for real-world projects like NASA’s Juno spacecraft…
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  ArticleHow Beech-Nut Innovated Within a ‘Category in Decline’

  July 16, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  In 2012, Beech-Nut acknowledged that it had a problem. Moms were no longer relying on supermarket baby food, and they regarded homemade food as the gold standard…
• ArticleWhy Audi of America is Hiring Robotic Repair Advisors

  July 9, 2014 | By Judy Quinn

  Audi of America is rolling out telepresence robots at 18 of its highest-volume U.S. dealerships, in an effort to accelerate repairs and improve customer satisfaction.
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  ArticleInnovation Matures from Skunkworks to True Partner

  July 2, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Aaron Proietti explains how his group’s mission has evolved, shifting from an isolated “skunkworks”s to more of a consultancy to the business units…
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  ArticleWhy Lowe’s Innovation Lab Hired Sci-Fi Writers to Guide Strategy

  July 1, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Kyle Nel of Lowe’s Innovation Labs explains why the home improvement retailer created a comic book to help executives evaluate possible future scenarios.
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  ArticleGoogle Execs Explain How the Company Spurs Innovation

  June 25, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Google executives offer an inside look at how the company hires, why reasonable goals are not good enough, and how internal projects gain or lose momentum.
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  ArticleInside Moen’s Prototype-Driven Product Development Strategy

  June 23, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner

  Moen’s SVP of Global Strategic Development describes the customer-focused innovation process behind a new line of motion-sensitive faucets…