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Article Lessons from Reliant on Setting Goals
March 18, 2014 | By Scott Cohen
Director of Innovation Scott Burns takes us inside the annual goal-setting process at Reliant Energy, part of the $8.4 billion electricity giant NRG Energy Inc...
Article Learnings from Our Hospital’s First Hackathon
March 14, 2014
Innovation exec Lesley Solomon explains how Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston set up its first hackathon and what the event achieved for the organization...
Article Two Paths to Innovation at Stanley Black & Decker
March 12, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
John Cunningham, president of Black & Decker’s consumer products group, lays out the objectives of the two innovation initiatives he oversees.
Article Advice from Dell’s VC Group
March 6, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
After getting out of the venture capital game a decade ago, Dell recently jumped back in with both feet. Jim Lussier explains how the tech company’s approach is different…
Article Humana Exec on the Ups and Downs of Innovation Programs
March 3, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
As staffing levels have risen and fallen, and reporting relationships have changed, $40 billion health insurer Humana has kept a commitment to innovation alive.
Article General Mills Shares Learnings on Open Innovation
February 25, 2014 | By Scott Cohen
Mike Helser, head of the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network, shares what the consumer packaged goods company has learned from its open innovation experiences.
Article Inside Xerox’s ‘Dreaming Sessions’ With Customers
February 20, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Xerox felt R&D needed to be better-connected to customers. The result was the “Dreaming Session,” which brings researchers together with Xerox’s customers…
Article Five Reasons You Shouldn’t Launch a Startup Accelerator
February 19, 2014
Want an innovation injection? Start an accelerator. At least, that seems to be the thinking at a growing number of companies, from from Barclays to Volkswagen to Disney...
Article Tracking the Corporate-Supported Startup Accelerators
February 14, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Major players like Disney, Airbus, and Deutsche Telekom have all launched their own accelerator programs to attract entrepreneurs working on ideas related to their businesses...
Article How Trek Bicycle Corp. Built Its Innovation Scorecard
February 12, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Trek exec Chad Manuell says the bike company's leadership wasn't happy with any of the innovation metrics or scorecards they'd seen...
Article Why Big Corps Can’t ‘Act like Startups’
February 7, 2014 | By Julia Austin
Just act more like a startup! Break the rules! Easier said than done, writes Julia Austin, the former VP of Innovation at VMWare…
Article GM on the Skills You Need to Manage Disruptive Innovation
February 3, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
General Motors R&D executive Clay Phillips talks about how the automaker is retooling research and development in the wake of bankruptcy.
Article Why News Corp. Innovates ‘Under the Radar’
January 31, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
After launching a high-profile iPad newspaper that didn't succeed, the Manhattan-based publishing company is taking a quieter approach to incubating new products...
Article Learnings from GE on Connecting with Entrepreneurs
January 23, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
GE hunts for breakthrough ideas by engaging with startups and academic researchers in new ways. See how the group held a first-of-its-kind event last fall.
Article Four Steps Hershey’s Uses to Reduce Innovation Risks
January 15, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Director of Adjacency Innovation Deborah Arcoleo lays out the four steps she uses to de-risk innovation initiatives.
Article Why Dyn Celebrates Big Projects like Big-Budget Movies
January 13, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
A fast-growing New Hampshire tech services company borrows an idea from Amazon to create movie-style posters that mark product upgrades and new offerings.
Article Can Your Company Invent the Future?
January 10, 2014
In the book "The New Killer Apps: How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Start-Ups," Chunka Mui examines how Walgreens worked to claim a new position in healthcare.
Article Clay Christensen: Why Most Innovation Leaders Will Fail
January 3, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Christensen, author of the seminal business book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” warns that too many executives don’t understand the “corporate laws of physics” in enough detail — and think they can simply will the organization to change how it works.
Article Insights and War stories: Starbucks, Kraft & Hyatt
December 30, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
What do you do when business unit executives complain that your ideas are just too complicated to deploy? Innovators from Starbucks, Kraft, and Hyatt discuss.
Article Tom Peters: 2014 Reading List
December 23, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Here's what author and management guru Tom Peters thinks you ought to be reading as we head into 2014...