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Thought Leadership Mitigating Common Corporate Innovation Program Failure Modes
November 29, 2024 | By Jim Bodio, BRI Associates
Jim Bodio of BRI Associates outlines the most common failure modes of innovation programs. And he offers practical strategies for overcoming them in this piece from our latest Pointers collection.
Thought Leadership True or False: Strategic Innovation is Too Scary
November 29, 2024 | By Gina O’Connor, Babson College
Gina O'Connor, Professor of Innovation Management at Babson College, examines why leaders avoid strategic innovation despite its benefits. She challenges three common assumed barriers to SI and advocates for a deliberate, long-term approach to embed strategic innovation capabilities.
Thought Leadership Building Resilient Teams: Solutions to Common Challenges in Corporate Innovation
November 29, 2024 | By Frank Henningsen, HYPE Innovation
While innovation and product teams are often seen as the engine of change within an organization, they frequently encounter obstacles that stall progress. These failures often arise from avoidable pitfalls, not from a lack of talent or effort, writes Frank Henningsen of HYPE Innovation.
Thought Leadership The Five Most Common Innovation Failure Modes (and the Best Avoidance Strategies)
November 29, 2024 | By Parker Lee, Territory, Inc.
Parker Lee, Global Managing Director at Territory Global, highlights common pitfalls innovation teams face, such as unclear goals, fear of failure, and lack of collaboration. He offers practical strategies like setting a clear vision, focusing on customer needs, encouraging smart risk-taking, and using flexible processes to set up your team...
Thought Leadership Corporate Innovation is Dead; Long Live Corporate Innovation!
November 29, 2024 | By Ryan Larcom, High Alpha Innovation
Ryan Larcom, Managing Director at High Alpha Innovation, argues that traditional corporate innovation models fail to drive transformation. He emphasizes the need for methods like external venture creation, nimble governance, and running high-volume, low-cost experiments.
Thought Leadership Red Light, Green Light: How to Navigate Success for Incubation Opportunities
November 29, 2024 | By Doug Williams, SmartOrg, Inc.
Doug Williams, Associate Director of Innovation at SmartOrg, highlights the challenges of navigating uncertainty during the incubation phase of innovation. He emphasizes prioritizing learning over avoiding risk, leveraging tools like ranges of assumptions and targeted experiments to de-risk opportunities.
Thought Leadership Developing a New Corporate Innovation Model to Commercialize Decarbonization Technologies
November 29, 2024 | By Satish Rao, Newlab
Satish Rao, Chief Science Officer at Newlab, outlines a new corporate innovation model to scale decarbonization technologies and meet ambitious 2030 sustainability goals. He emphasizes aligning innovation teams with clear mandates, integrating decision-making with CFO oversight, and evolving value chains through collaboration.
Article Perplexity Launches AI-Powered Shopping Tools
November 26, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
On November 18th, startup Perplexity released a shopping tool for its Pro-level subscribers called "Buy With Pro." And a week later, they released their mobile app to make the shopping experience integrated with the camera, a feature they call "Snap to Shop." Similar to Google’s Lens, you take a picture...
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call December 13th: The Future of Corporate-Startup Partnerships
In this webinar, Chris Hillock of Dell Technologies Capital will discuss the shifting dynamics between corporates and startups, with a focus on how these partnerships are adapting to new challenges, emerging technologies, and evolving market demands.
Article LPL Financial Exec: New Tech Needs to be Grounded in Use Cases
November 20, 2024 | By Daniel Pereira
For over 25 years, Uma Meyyappan has been a technology executive working in wealth management and financial services, and she is a pragmatist: Even in the era of generative AI, she says, "Do not speak too broadly about the impact of technology in generic terms...be really grounded in a use...
Article How SAP Created a ‘Safe Zone’ for Experiments
November 19, 2024 | By Claus von Riegen
The software giant SAP employs more than 100,000 people globally, and employees are able to test-drive new product ideas with customers, almost like startup founders. Head of Strategy Claus von Riegen explains how it works.
Article CarMax CTO: Advice on Setting Product Teams Up for Success
November 15, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
Shamim Mohammad is Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Technology Officer at CarMax. We spoke with Mohammad about leveraging AI to deliver reliable results, successfully structuring technical teams for innovation, and more.
Article Slack Report: AI Investment Continues as Worker Enthusiasm Wanes
November 14, 2024 | By Steven Melendez
A new report from Slack finds that while AI investment and urgency continues, worker enthusiasm and adoption is slowing. Why?
On Demand Webcast Accelerating Venture Creation with AI
November 12, 2024
How can startups and large companies build new ventures better and faster using AI tools? In this webcast replay, Dave Blakely of Mach49 demonstrates how to accelerate customer research with synthetic personas identify customer pain-points and pain hypotheses with AI support; and visualize solutions using AI tools. He was joined...
Article The White House Says All Agencies Should Have a Chief AI Officer. Should You?
November 8, 2024 | By Scott Cohen
Last week, the White House published a memorandum on advancing US leadership in artificial intelligence. We unpack what it means for the country — and for corporations.
Article McKinsey Report: 18 New Arenas for Competition, from Streaming to Space
November 5, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
Arenas, as opposed to industrial sectors, are where the biggest bets are being made in R&D and the locus of much new value creation. Here's our summary of a new report from the McKinsey Global Institute.
Upcoming Webcast & Live Call November 21st: Test Assumptions with AI to Invest Less in Bad Ideas
Why do bad ideas get funded? The answer is usually in how you tested them. In this webinar, leaders from Disruptive Edge and Aucctus will share the systematic testing process used to help brands like Walmart test their assumptions and launch winning ideas.
Article Book Excerpt: 50 Proven Innovation Methodologies and Techniques
November 4, 2024 | By Gijs van Wulfen
Using a proven methodology creates confidence and trust among those who work with it, while also lowering the barrier of risk aversion, Gijs van Wulfen writes in a new book.
Article What Electric Forklifts Can Teach Us About EV Adoption
November 1, 2024 | By Michael Gaylen, Concentric
In the last three decades, operations leaders and facility managers worldwide have made significant progress in making the switch from traditionally-powered forklifts to electric. This period of change has provided useful lessons we can apply to understanding the evolution of the electric vehicle space, writes Michael Gaylen of Concentric.
Article Accenture Report: 5 Key Trends for 2025 as People Seek a Healthier Relationship with Tech
October 31, 2024 | By Curtis Michelson
A new Accenture Song report identifies five key trends for 2025 as people seek a healthier relationship with technology.