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  ArticleQualcomm on Building an Internal Startup-Venture Capital Ecosystem

  March 21, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison

  Plenty of innovation programs struggle to produce tangible impact in areas that matter to senior leadership. Navrina Singh of Qualcomm explains how they’ve been doing it…
• ArticleFormer Pixar SVP on Creative Conflict & Why Well-Designed Offices Win

  March 10, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  “Creative abrasion is the ability to have difficult conversations,” says Greg Brandeau, former Pixar SVP of Technology. Brandeau shares his thoughts and an assessment.
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  ArticleWhat No One Says About Politics & Culture

  March 1, 2016 | By Sreten Gajic

  “[C]ulture and politics both will have big impacts on the course your innovation program follows,” writes Sreten Gajic, a former executive at Assurant and Coca-Cola.
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  ArticleFailure Shouldn’t Come as a Surprise

  February 26, 2016 | By Julia Austin

  The odds are, when you push the limits of what your company has done before, you will encounter failure. The best organizations expect it and are ready to learn. 
• ArticleAchieving Impact: Advice from Your Peers

  February 25, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  We gathered twenty senior innovation, product, and strategy executives, in collaboration with our partner Mindjet. The goal: to discuss how to create sustainable innovation programs.
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  ArticleWhy Assurant Designed a Strategy Game for Employees to Play

  February 24, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  Among the goals behind Assurant’s Strategy Learning Game: helping employees understand the company’s direction and driving a shift to urgency. Melissa Kivett explains…
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  ArticleThree Keys to Longevity in Corporate Venture Capital

  February 15, 2016 | By Kyle Fugere, Contributing Columnist and former Head of Ventures at dunnhumby

  Corporate venture capital initiatives are often a by-product of a booming economy — here today and gone tomorrow. Kyle Fugere shares strategies to help your initative thrive.
• ArticleHumana’s Chief Innovation Officer: ‘Co-Creation is the New Way’

  February 9, 2016 | By Alicia Kelso

  Chris Kay of Humana discusses how the insurer is collaborating and co-creating with startups, and outlines his process for going from ideation to market.
• ArticleSo You’re Trying to Innovate in a Heavily-Regulated Industry…

  February 8, 2016 | By Naomi Fried, Contributing Columnist & Former Chief Innovation Officer, Boston Children’s Hospital

  There are even more barriers to innovation in industries that are heavily regulated. Legal requirements can loom large and can stifle innovation — if you don’t address them. Here’s how…
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  ArticleAssessment: How Well Developed is Your Corporate Innovation Strategy?

  February 7, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  Developed by InnoLead's Editorial team, with input from corporate innovation executives, this assessment will help you evaluate the current maturity of your organization's innovation strategy.
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  ArticleFour Steps to Getting Your Innovative Subculture to Spread

  February 5, 2016

  Michael Foster, who has developed innovation programs at companies like Dun & Bradstreet and Fiserv, provides four tips on elevating the “subculture” of innovation…
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  ArticleIncrementalism is Not the Way to Disruptive Innovation

  February 1, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  Ten observations about the politics and realities of innovating in an established organization, from Phil Swisher, the former VP of innovation at the biggest private bank in the U.S.
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  ArticleHow Kaiser Permanente Puts the Consumer First

  January 20, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  Tad Funahashi of Kaiser Permanente talks about how the health care delivery system is working to become less MD-centric, and more consumer-centric…
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  ArticleAlex Osterwalder on The Dual Operating System

  January 14, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner

  What's one big idea CEOs and innovators will need to grapple with in 2016? Here's what Alex Osterwalder, developer of the Business Model Canvas, has to say...
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  ArticleWhat are the Best Practices for Developing New Business Models?

  December 14, 2015

  To answer our latest subscriber question on business model innovation, we turned to Saul Kaplan, author of “The Business Model Innovation Factory.”
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  ArticleWeight Watchers on Changing a Relationship-Based Business

  December 7, 2015 | By Alicia Kelso

  Global VP of Innovation Dondeena Bradley talks about driving multiple new initiatives aimed at transforming Weight Watchers into a holistic, community-driven company.
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  ArticleAt MetLife, Supporting Innovation While Avoiding the ‘Danger Zone’

  December 4, 2015 | By Steven Melendez

  MetLife’s Chief Innovation Officer shares his approach to supporting innovation at the insurance company — and also on how to avoid the “danger zone” of innovation.
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  On Demand Live CallGap Exec on Innovation Training, Co-Creation, Customer Insights

  November 18, 2015

  Gap Inc.’s Dean of Global Innovation talks about creativity, co-creation, the Mindspark training initiative, and the importance of solving small problems first.
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  ArticleLego Executive Chairman: Create a Separate Structure

  November 3, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner

  Lego executive chairman and former CEO Jorgen Vig Knudstorp talks about Future Lab, a separate team the company set up to explore new avenues for growth.
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  ArticleHow Elon Musk Builds Organizations That Can Achieve Anything

  October 13, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison

  We talk to Ashlee Vance, author of a book about Musk, about how the founder of SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity hires people, battles bureaucracy, and dispatches problems fast.