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Article Qualcomm 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…
Article How Collaborations Drive Intel Labs’ IoT Strategy
February 17, 2016 | By Steven Melendez
Martin Curley of Intel Labs Europe shares how an “Open Innovation 2.0” approach is helping Intel work with customers to prototype and deploy IoT technologies.
Article Why Toyota Set up New $1 Billion Research Group as a ‘Skunkworks’
January 27, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
The new institute has four initial mandates, including helping the carmaker explore possible products opportunities in “indoor mobility.” CEO Gill Pratt explains…
Article Why Tools Giant Stanley Formed a Joint Venture to Tackle IoT
December 28, 2015 | By Stephen Ellison
Two execs at Stanley Black and Decker and View Technologies explain a long-term bet on the growth of big data and IoT, and a proposition designed to work in the near-term.
Article Google Exec: Foster 10x Thinking or be Doomed to Incrementalism
September 11, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
According to Google's Todd Rowe, leaders need to understand that fostering only incremental changes and improvements will doom a company to fall behind...
Article Dell’s Chief Innovation Officer on Innovation Portfolios & Training
July 28, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Dell's Jim Stikeleather opened a recent Brightidea innovation gathering in Austin with a talk about the importance of fostering divergent thinking...
Article Why Google Does ‘Beer & Demos’ Every Friday
July 2, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Craig Nevill-Manning of Google talks about why the company encourages engineers to show off raw prototypes every week over beer. Find out more here…
Article Former Microsoft, PayPal Execs on Connecting with Startups
May 21, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
What's the right approach for big companies that want to plug into the startup world? Invest? Acquire? Be a customer? Get insights here...
Article Sustaining, Disruptive, Blue Sky: How Microsoft Invests in Research
April 8, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
On a Field Study visit to Microsoft Research, Peter Lee showed one of those slides that had everyone in the group suddenly reaching for their phones to snap a picture.
Article Insights from PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel
December 17, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
In this audio excerpt, Peter Thiel discusses how internal politics can tilt decision-making in large companies towards conventional ideas and away from what is truly disruptive.
Article Five Lessons from the App-Driven Economy
December 1, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
As startups deliver services like transportation, home cleaning, and errand-running with the click of an app, here's how the playing field is changing.
Article How EMC Reignited Its Innovation Program
November 25, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
EMC executive Calvin Smith realized that the innovation team needed to enhance its capability to craft business plans and prototypes — and eventually hand market-tested products...
Article Why Adobe Gives Employees a Red Box with $1,000 Inside
October 20, 2014 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
Nearly 1,000 employees of Adobe Systems have participated in the company's Kickbox Innovation Workshop, where they learn how to develop ideas and collect feedback...
Article Google Execs Share Slides on Innovation, Culture & Hiring
October 16, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Slides from Google executives. Among their insights: “Most companies today are run to minimize risk, not maximize freedom and speed.”
Article Google Execs Explain How the Company Spurs Innovation
June 25, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Google executives offer an inside look at how the company hires, why reasonable goals are not good enough, and how internal projects gain or lose momentum.
Article How Constant Contact Blends Lean Startup & Design Thinking
June 18, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Andy Miller, Chief Innovation Architect at the digital marketing company, shares slides and a video that offer a look at Constant Contact's approach to developing new offerings.
Article How Autodesk “Looks to the Edge” for Emerging Trends
June 2, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Autodesk’s Jon Pittman talks about 3D printing, synthetic biology, programmable matter, and other trends he’s tracking. Pittman also shares the software giant’s new IdEx program…
Article Advice from Dell’s VC Group
March 6, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
After getting out of the venture capital game a decade ago, Dell recently jumped back in with both feet. Jim Lussier explains how the tech company’s approach is different…
Article Inside Xerox’s ‘Dreaming Sessions’ With Customers
February 20, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Xerox felt R&D needed to be better-connected to customers. The result was the “Dreaming Session,” which brings researchers together with Xerox’s customers…
Article Why Big Corps Can’t ‘Act like Startups’
February 7, 2014 | By Julia Austin
Just act more like a startup! Break the rules! Easier said than done, writes Julia Austin, the former VP of Innovation at VMWare…