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Article Mercedes Lays Off Staff at Innovation Centers, Seeks Outside Partners
July 28, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Daimler AG, the German company that makes Mercedes-Benz vehicles and Daimler trucks, has laid off more than 100 staffers at its Lab1886 innovation centers around the world…
Article The Rise of ‘Conferencing Competence’ and the Decline of Fancy Footwear
July 13, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Thornton May contends that many leaders — and many organizations — are moving too slowly in responding to the dramatic changes that 2020 has brought. More insights inside…
Article Scenario Planning in 2020: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Doing
July 6, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
The business and societal impacts of the coronavirus pandemic will be “more like World War I or the Great Depression,” says Matthew Ranen, a scenario-planning consultant.
Article Stop Trying to ‘Bounce Back’ to Normal
June 25, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Rather than trying to restore all of the activities from February 2020 in the US, we should be thinking about how to “bounce forward” toward something new.
Video The Three Crises Caused by COVID-19 — and How to Respond
June 19, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Scott Kirsner
Futurist Steve Brown sees the current pandemic as three overlapping crises — each requiring a different response. See how innovation plays into the solution…
Article Every Online Event We’re Hosting
April 8, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
We have a really simple aim: to put on the best virtual events on the Internet. Here’s what is coming up, both for members and non-members.
Article 12 of the Best Tools for Real-Time Team Collaboration
March 23, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
What are you using to collaborate, run brainstorming sessions, and move projects forward at this moment of remote work? Here are some tools our community recommended.
Article How One Corporate Innovator Assembled a Volunteer Team to Print Face Shields
April 6, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Shashi Jain’s day job is Intel. But he’s working almost another full-time shift as an organizer of the Portland 3D Printing Lab, which has been producing face shields for healthcare workers…
Article Overcoming Politics and Internal Resistance: Advice from Your Peers
March 3, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
At our Silicon Valley Deep Dive event in February, we asked a group of 30 innovation, emerging technology, and R&D leaders from industries like apparel, financial services, telecom, and manufacturing to discuss the things that can help overcome organizational resistance to innovation — as well as some of the things...
Article Ex-DreamWorks Animation CTO: How the C-Suite Can Foster Innovation
April 13, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
”In my experience, the most powerful motivator to encourage innovation was peer recognition,” says Ed Leonard, Co-Founder of Bred Ventures and former CTO at DreamWorks Animation. Leonard shares more on what senior leaders do at companies like DreamWorks Animation and Disney to shape a culture of innovation…