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Thought Leadership Why Generative AI is the North Star for Corporate Innovators
November 27, 2023 | By Sean Sheppard, Managing Partner, U+
Companies that embrace and experiment with AI solutions are experiencing a five-fold increase in the number of venture ideas and are twice as selective in their decisions. Sean Sheppard of U+ serves up examples in this piece.
Thought Leadership The AI-Enabled Explosion of Organizational Creativity and Innovation is Here
November 20, 2023 | By Erik Noyes, Babson College
Innovation won’t come from AI alone, writes Erik Noyes of Babson College, but from your best people with their respective human superpowers now augmented by AI. How will your top innovators leverage AI to explore, imagine, prototype, and create?
On Demand Webcast Three Things Companies Can Do to Win with Generative AI in 2024
November 20, 2023
This November 2023 webcast replay covers what companies should be doing with regard to generative AI. Presenter Elliott Parker of High Alpha Innovation called generative AI a "clasically disruptive technology" — something that makes things that were previously difficult or expensive accessible to the masses. "It's going to create massive opportunities,"...
Article McGraw Hill Exec on Building the ‘TikTok for Studying’
October 31, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
When he first proposed building Sharpen, McGraw Hill’s app that has been called “the TikTok for studying,” Justin Singh didn’t know whether it would play well with the company’s target audience for the product — students looking for a new way to study that was more aligned with their lifestyle.
Article Five Steps for Devising a Digital Roadmap
October 19, 2023 | By Hadley Thompson
Many companies start “digital transformations” that meander along and get nowhere. The new book The Digital Transformation Roadmap, by Columbia Business School professor David Rogers, serves up constructive advice about building digital skills and strategies that can respond to today’s constantly-changing environment. We talk with Rogers...
Article Book Excerpt: What Problems Can the Metaverse Actually Solve?
August 30, 2023
In this exclusive excerpt, Nokia's Head of Trend and Innovation Scouting writes about what makes new technologies successful, and lays out a case for why the Metaverse will get there.
Article Macy’s CEO Talks Mini Stores, Consumers Under Pressure, and Culture
January 16, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
Macy's CEO Jeff Gennette was at the National Retail Federation's conference to deliver an update to his peers in the retail industry. In a mainstage session, Gennette touched on the consumer mood at the start of 2023; how Macy’s has begun converting some traditional stores to a smaller Market by...
Article Spotify’s VP of Personalization on ‘Making a Bet’ on New Ideas
October 3, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Personalization of products and services has become a major desire for many consumers across a variety of industries. We spoke with Ziad Sultan, VP of Personalization at Spotify, the music streaming platform famous for its customized user interface, to learn more about its personalization practices, get advice on how to...
Video CSAA Insurance & Fidelity: Building Innovation Muscles for the Long Haul
March 21, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
CSAA Insurance’s Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Debra Brackeen, talks with Mona Vernon of Fidelity Investments about building lasting innovation structures.
Article Buying Coffee in the Metaverse: How Fiserv Thinks About the Future of Payments
March 18, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall, Kate Katz
Alvin Cho is Vice President of Product & Engineering for Digital Innovation and Transformation at Fiserv, and he oversees the company’s Developer Studio, a set of APIs and tools that make it easy to integrate Fiserv’s offerings into all sorts of new and existing products. We spoke with Cho about the objectives...
Video TripAdvisor CEO: The Role That Leaders Play in Fostering Innovation
March 18, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer and best-selling author Rita McGrath discuss how the travel site has developed new offerings since its 2000 birth, above a pizza shop in the Boston suburbs.
Video How Augmented Reality Will Change Our Lives — at Home and at Work
March 16, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
Author David Rose talks about augmenting how we see with LaForge Optical CEO Corey Mack and Mike Quigley of Niantic, the company behind the game “Pokémon Go.”
Video Video: How eSports and New Licensing Structures are Driving Disruption in Sports
February 9, 2022 | By Alex Slawsby, Collin Robisheaux
Alex Slawsby of InnoLead and Jack Elkins of Sidekick Innovation discuss how “name image likeness” deals and eSports will impact the future of college and pro sports.
Video Video: How NFTs and Mobile-First Content are Changing the Sports World
February 1, 2022 | By Alex Slawsby, Collin Robisheaux
Alex Slawsby of InnoLead and Jack Elkins of SideKick Innovation sit down to discuss how mobile-first content consumption, online betting, and non-fungible tokens are impacting the world of professional sports.
Article Is Augmented Reality the Next Disruptive Technology?
December 17, 2021 | By Alexander MacDougall
Entrepreneur and author David Rose shares his vision of the future of augmented reality. “What the web was in the 90s and what mobile was in the aughts, this is what AR will be in the next decade,” Rose says.

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