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Article GE’s Chief Marketing Officer Talks Innovation, Partnerships
April 29, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
GE's marketing chief Beth Comstock discussed the company's views on crowdsourcing, the Internet of things, the lean startup movement, and more. Quick bullets inside...
Article Lessons from Marriott on Rapid Prototyping, Co-Creation
April 28, 2014 | By Scott Cohen
Brian King of Marriott takes you into “The Underground,” Marriott’s innovation lab, to see how rapid-prototyping works there, and offers lessons for replicating the process.
Article Learnings from Our Hospital’s First Hackathon
March 14, 2014
Innovation exec Lesley Solomon explains how Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston set up its first hackathon and what the event achieved for the organization...
Article General Mills Shares Learnings on Open Innovation
February 25, 2014 | By Scott Cohen
Mike Helser, head of the General Mills Worldwide Innovation Network, shares what the consumer packaged goods company has learned from its open innovation experiences.
Article Why News Corp. Innovates ‘Under the Radar’
January 31, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
After launching a high-profile iPad newspaper that didn't succeed, the Manhattan-based publishing company is taking a quieter approach to incubating new products...
Article Learnings from GE on Connecting with Entrepreneurs
January 23, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
GE hunts for breakthrough ideas by engaging with startups and academic researchers in new ways. See how the group held a first-of-its-kind event last fall.
Article Four Steps Hershey’s Uses to Reduce Innovation Risks
January 15, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Director of Adjacency Innovation Deborah Arcoleo lays out the four steps she uses to de-risk innovation initiatives.
Article Moving Ideas from ‘Fuzzy’ to ‘Fruition’ at Gap
December 9, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Dean of Global Innovation Michael Perman explains how Gap Inc. has trained about 250 employees to be innovators, through a program called Mindspark...
Article 3 Key Trends in Distributed Work
November 4, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
There's an shift happening, toward judicious use of distributed talent — whether it's full-timers or freelancers who prefer not to become anyone's employee...
Article Learning to Love Innovation Day at UnitedHealth Group
October 30, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Ryan Armbruster of UnitedHealth Group shares an outline of how the company structures its annual Innovation Day event and discusses his initial skepticism about it.
Article Why Coke is Hiring Founders & Holding Failure Conferences
October 28, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
VP of innovation and entrepreneurship David Butler shares the experiments Coke is trying internally and externally as a way to “regenerate the culture” of the 150,000 employee company.
Article Hackathons: 5 Keys to Success, 5 examples
October 21, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Companies like Campbell's Soup, Coca-Cola, and Hasbro have started to organize hackathons as a way to get outsiders building prototypes...
Article How the Game Show Network Runs Hackathons
September 24, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The cable network's digital game development studio spells out the goals, process, guidelines, and awards for its quarterly employee hackathon.
Article Intel’s Brandon Barnett: Mapping the Future
September 21, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The chipmaker's Director of Business Innovation explains how he uses experiments, hackathons, and networks of experts to help Intel map out areas of potential.
Article Naomi Fried: My 3 Highest-Impact Programs
September 15, 2013
Three years into the job, Naomi Fried reflects on the three initiatives that have moved the needle. Fried also discusses her annual innovation progress report.
Article What Philips Wants from Open Innovation
June 18, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Philips North America chairman Greg Sebasky, left, calls it "one of the first attempts by a large company to do open innovation."
Article How VMware Funds Innovation like a VC
May 13, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
At the cloud and virtualization giant, more than 60 ideas have been presented over the last year-and-a-half, in areas like R&D, customer service, and field sales.