All emerging tech report articles

Resource Data on Why Organizations Kill Emerging Technology Projects
February 1, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows the reasons why innovative organizations sometimes want to abandon new technology opportunities.
Resource Data on How Organizations Identify Important Emerging Technologies
February 1, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows the methods in which innovative organizations look for and identify new emerging tech.
Article Inside MetLife’s Relationships with VCs and the Startup Ecosystem
January 18, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
Since 2014, the $68 billion insurer MetLife has run more 160 experiments with startups — 70 of which later developed into contractual relationships. Vice President of Innovation Terrence Luciani has created a structured process for collecting requirements from around the company, and then working with venture capital firms, accelerators, and other parties to...
Article How Dell’s CTO Assesses New Technologies to Drive Future Growth
January 12, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
Once a company is approaching $100 billion in revenue, creating substantial growth gets a lot harder. “You need to find some new areas to play in,” says Global CTO John Roese. Here’s how he does that…W
Article How Software-Maker PTC Prototypes the Future of AR and VR
January 10, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
The $1.8 billion software company PTC makes software used to design physical products, and to connect them to the Internet of Things. In 2017, the Boston company created a new Reality Lab. Its leader, Valentin Heun, says, “We look at problems in the company that cannot be solved wth short-term business...
Article Fidelity Labs SVP: ‘The Only Success Metrics That Really Matter are Financial Metrics’
January 4, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
How do you avoid winding up in the “danger zone” as an innovator inside a big company? Mona Vernon, the head of Fidelity Labs at Boston-based Fidelity Investments, says it’s all about making sure your metrics are aligned with your CEO and CFO.
Article What’s a Wizard of Oz Prototype? iRobot’s CTO Explains
December 29, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby
iRobot Chief Technology Officer Chris Jones discusses how the company keeps tabs on important technologies emerging from academia and the startup world — and the role that “minimum viable products” play, even if they’re controlled by a Wizard of Oz in the next room.
Article How Pharma Distributor AmerisourceBergen Prioritizes and Pilots Emerging Tech
December 21, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby
One key is to success with emerging tech is working closely with customers, says SVP of Strategy and Innovation Jason Dinger: “Sometimes, we identify hidden value where a customer sees a way to deploy a technology that we didn’t see.”
Article How One Retail VP Scores Emerging Technologies
December 15, 2021 | By Alex Slawsby
“There will always be new, cool, shiny things that we could bring to life in our stores,” says Heather Paquette of Retail Business Services, a subsidiary of the grocery giant Ahold Delhaize. “But we’re really here to help our brands achieve their goals by implementing new solutions that create measurable...