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Podcast AI and Innovation Converge at Harvard Business Publishing
July 8, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
In this episode, we talk to Laura Northridge, Senior Director of the AI Innovation Lab at Harvard Business Publishing. As is the case with many corporate innovators, she’s helping shape AI strategy and policy for the Boston-based nonprofit, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. It’s one of small number of...
Article Four AI Questions Organizations Need to be Discussing
May 7, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
Author and business school professor Ethan Mollick says that there are four questions to be discussing inside organizations right now, as they look to understand how AI will impact them — and how they can benefit.
Article Are We on the Verge of a Golden Age of Robotics Innovation?
March 18, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
As robots become more capable of operating in different environments — and perhaps as they get new input about the world around them from AI and foundation models — it could be "transformative to our societies and economies," says Matthew Johnson-Roberson of Carnegie Mellon University, as "large swath of the things we...
Article New Data: Trends in Music and Video Consumption
March 15, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
At the annual South by Southwest conference in Austin, Luminate CEO Rob Jonas offered an overview of how music and video consumption changed in 2023. Here are 10 of the data points he shared...
Article NASCAR’s First Chief Digital Officer on Experimenting with New Technologies and Platforms
March 1, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner, Tyler Smith
Tim Clark is the Senior Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at NASCAR, the auto racing sanctioning and operating company, headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. In this exclusive interview, he talks about leveraging new technologies to increase fans' engagement with the sport.
Article PTC’s Chief Technology Officer on Innovating Across the Three Horizons
February 14, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
CTO Steve Dertien talks about how innovation happens inside PTC, a $2 billion maker of design, augmented reality, and Internet of Things software.
Article How Fidelity Used a Key Ring to Capture Project Learnings
July 17, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
What happens after the debrief on a project you’ve completed? At Fidelity Investments, the innovation team came up with a clever way to capture their learnings.
Article Exclusive Book Excerpt: ‘The Intrapreneur’s Journey’
September 13, 2018 | By Scott Kirsner
“Giving employees time and freedom to work on their own ideas makes great business sense,” write Hugh Molotsi and Jeff Zias in the forthcoming book “The Intrapreneur’s Journey.”
Article The ‘Fear the Unicorn’ Era is Over. Here’s What Comes Next…
February 5, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
“Fear of the unicorn” is over. We are now in an era where companies fear — and should fear — being insufficiently intelligent about AI. InnoLead Co-Founder Scott Kirsner explains...
Article Walmart is Shutting Down its Store No. 8 Innovation Lab. Here’s What That Means for Other Corporate Innovators.
January 26, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
On January 23rd, we brought together a group of four retail industry veterans — and one retail-focused venture capitalist — to unpack the news that the world’s biggest retailer, Walmart, had decided to shut down its primary innovation group, Store No. 8. What are the important take-aways for innovators and...