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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...
Article How the Game Show Network Runs Hackathons
September 24, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The cable network's digital game development studio spells out the goals, process, guidelines, and awards for its quarterly employee hackathon.
Article Intel’s Brandon Barnett: Mapping the Future
September 21, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The chipmaker's Director of Business Innovation explains how he uses experiments, hackathons, and networks of experts to help Intel map out areas of potential.
Article Survey Results: How Does Your Organization Stack Up?
September 17, 2013
We asked innovation executives about the innovation function at their organizations. Results cover topics like metrics, reporting to the board, and internal versus external focus.
Article Is Your Company Really Set Up to Innovate?
September 15, 2013
When a company launches an innovation program, what they’re trying to say is, “We are a creative organization that wants to foster creative stuff.”
Article Naomi Fried: My 3 Highest-Impact Programs
September 15, 2013
Three years into the job, Naomi Fried reflects on the three initiatives that have moved the needle. Fried also discusses her annual innovation progress report.
Article Video: The Merits of Products Backed by the Crowd
September 11, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
With Onehundred, father-and-son duo David and Calvin Laituri are trying to create a tight feedback loop between a product's designer, its buyer, and its manufacturer. Includes a short video.
Article Is the CEO Serious about Innovation?
September 7, 2013
If you want to achieve truly transformational innovation, you have to find leaders who are open to it, and willing to organize around it, says Saul Kaplan...
Article Doing Innovation as ‘Just One Guy’
September 4, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The State of Maryland's Chief Innovation Officer talks about catching criminals, reducing hospital admissions, and hackathons to help the environment.
Article Spotted: World’s best-looking vending machine?
July 24, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Is there a duller environment than the typical airport gate? See how San Francisco-based Benefit Cosmetics is trying to shake things up with its new vending machines.
Article Innovation Metrics in Lingerie
July 18, 2013 | By Scott Cohen
Nicolas Petitjean talks about DBApparel Group's "extra light" structure for managing innovation, his budget, and the challenge of creating a true culture of innovation.
Article What Philips Wants from Open Innovation
June 18, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Philips North America chairman Greg Sebasky, left, calls it "one of the first attempts by a large company to do open innovation."
Article Four Lessons from Mullen’s Chief Innovation Officer
June 16, 2013
In June 2009, Edward Boches became the first Chief Innovation Officer at Mullen, an ad agency that works with household names like JetBlue, Adidas, and Zappos.