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Article Job Descriptions: Healthcare and Pharma
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in healthcare, medicine, pharmaceuticals, and biotech...
Article Job Descriptions: Manufacturing
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the manufacturing industry...
Article Job Descriptions: Government, Non-profits, Education
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the non-profit, government, and education sectors...
Article Job Descriptions: Food & Consumer Packaged Goods
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the food, beauty, and consumer packaged goods industries...
Article Job Descriptions: Financial Services & Insurance
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in financial services, insurance, and payments...
Article Job Descriptions: Aerospace and Defense
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're collecting job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the aerospace and defense industries...
Article Job Descriptions: Advertising and Marketing
December 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
We're assembling collection of job descriptions for a wide array of innovation-related roles, including in the advertising and marketing industries...
Article Time Warner & Blue Cross on Starting Accelerators
November 26, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Execs from Time Warner, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, and TechStars talk about the upside in supporting accelerator programs for entrepreneurs...
Article Scoring Ideas: at One Financial Services Firm
November 25, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The head of innovation at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. shares their internal 0-21 point scale for scoring ideas... How much would the idea rely on high-cost technology?
Article Inside iRobot’s “Business-Driven” Strategy
November 15, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Colin Angle says his most important jobs is protecting products that have left the safe confines of the R&D lab but haven't yet grown into significant businesses.
Article Whirlpool’s Dashboard of Ideas
November 6, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
How does the appliance and home products maker keep track of new product ideas bubbling up in the organization — and their market potential?
Article 3 Key Trends in Distributed Work
November 4, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
There's an shift happening, toward judicious use of distributed talent — whether it's full-timers or freelancers who prefer not to become anyone's employee...
Article Learning to Love Innovation Day at UnitedHealth Group
October 30, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Ryan Armbruster of UnitedHealth Group shares an outline of how the company structures its annual Innovation Day event and discusses his initial skepticism about it.
Article Why Coke is Hiring Founders & Holding Failure Conferences
October 28, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
VP of innovation and entrepreneurship David Butler shares the experiments Coke is trying internally and externally as a way to “regenerate the culture” of the 150,000 employee company.
Article Hackathons: 5 Keys to Success, 5 examples
October 21, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Companies like Campbell's Soup, Coca-Cola, and Hasbro have started to organize hackathons as a way to get outsiders building prototypes...
Q&A What’s the Right Relationship Between Innovation and Business Units?
October 19, 2013
What is the optimal relationship between an innovation/team group and the lines of business? Is there a ‘golden rule’ for how close or how far away it should be?
Article Creating Networks is The New Competency
October 16, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Steve Case sat down with InnoLead to discuss some of the defensive tendencies of established organizations, and how to overcome them.
Article Athenahealth on Creating a Disrupter Ecosystem
October 11, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
With an initiative dubbed "More Disruption Please," CEO Jonathan Bush decided to give other companies access to his customer base...
Article J&J on Building Its Global Network of Innovation Centers
October 7, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The healthcare giant, headquartered in New Jersey, is opening innovation centers in Silicon Valley, Shanghai, London, and Boston...
Article Ten Tips from Corporate Venture Investors
October 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Corporate venture investing is on the rise. But if you're considering jumping in, are you doing it for the right reasons? We talked to current and former investors...