All Open Innovation / Co-Creation - Page 4

Article Former Lululemon Strategy Manager on Retail Disruption
July 3, 2017 | By Kelsey Alpaio
“[A]s a more established brand, there are a lot of headwinds out there,” Lindsay Angelo says. “[T]hink about how you can take advantage of that turbulence internally.”
Article Inside J&J’s New Initiative to ‘Intercept’ Diseases
May 12, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
The pharmaceutical industry often develops drugs to manage diseases. But Johnson & Johnson posits a different model: What if you could identify people at risk and stave disease off?
Article How GE Fuse Prototypes with an Online Community
April 17, 2017 | By Kelsey Alpaio
Amelia Gandara of GE Fuse discusses the program's community, and the right and wrong ways to source solutions from outside. Read more for insights.
Article How Tech Scouting Ties in to the Business at Goodyear
April 10, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
Goodyear’s Chris Varley supports managers tasked with developing “‘something new’ on a five- or ten-year roadmap.” Get his advice on bringing ideas into a $15 billion company…
On Demand Live Call HBS’s Karim Lakhani on Overcoming Resistance to Crowdsourcing
February 27, 2017
Karim Lakhani of Harvard Business School discusses why people resist crowdsourcing and if teams should run competitions on their crowdsourcing platforms.
Article Coca-Cola Shutters its Founders Initiative, Which Backed Startups
December 29, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Coca-Cola shut down its Founders program, which worked with entrepreneurs and invested in startups. One possible cause: a back-to-basics focus on the core business.
Article AIG and John Hancock Execs Talk Startups, Sensors & More
December 16, 2016 | By Kelsey Alpaio
AIG and John Hancock execs discuss how insurance companies can innovate in the face of regulatory oversight, privacy concerns, and the status quo.
Article Google and XPRIZE Execs on Enabling Big Breakthroughs
November 23, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Google X executive Hans Peter Brøndmo and XPRIZE CEO Marcus Shingles give their insights from a session held at the inaugural Harvest Summit.
Article MIT’s Eric von Hippel Looks at the Rise of Consumers as Innovators
November 22, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Eric von Hippel, a professor at MIT and economist who has studied open innovation since the 1980s, explores the phenomenon of consumers as innovators.
Article Insights from Honda’s Silicon Valley Lab
October 3, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
While it began as an R&D outpost in 2000 and later added a venture capital team, Honda's Silicon Valley site is now a full-fledged innovation hub for the company...
On Demand Webcast What Top Corporate Innovators are Doing in 2016
September 22, 2016
InnoLead editor and co-founder Scott Kirsner shares seven examples of how companies like Toyota, Disney, GE, and Amazon are working to innovate better, faster, cheaper.
Article How Houghton Mifflin is Building an Ecosystem of Developers
September 20, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Can Houghton Mifflin Harcourt remake itself into a digital platform, distributing content, software, and cloud-based services to schools?
Article How Industrial Giant ThyssenKrupp Approaches the Era of the Smart City
August 23, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Patrick Bass, CEO of ThyssenKrupp North America, shares his vision of the future of R&D which includes customers, academics, and data from IOT products.
Article Sherwin-Williams on Using Open Innovation to Create Breakthroughs
August 8, 2016 | By Molly K. McLaughlin
Victoria Scarborough of Sherwin-Williams’ Global External Innovation Team, defines her mission as identifying outside “technology that would move the innovation needle.”
Article The Secret of Corporate Innovation Is…
July 19, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Here are seven things we see having a big impact inside large organizations, and seven things that set you up for failure.
Article How the Unilever Foundry Works with Startups
May 25, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Unilever has launched more than 90 pilots with 90 different startups, scaling about half of those initiatives. Jeremy Basset of Unilever Foundry explains how and why they're doing it...
Article Changing Attitudes about Open Innovation at AstraZeneca
May 24, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
Turning colleagues from skeptics to advocates isn't easy, but Scott Wilkins told us it has steadily begun to happen over five years of hard work at AstraZeneca...
On Demand Live Call Open Innovation at $25 Billion AstraZeneca
May 18, 2016
Scott Wilkins of AstraZeneca and his colleague Rob Albert discuss the roots of the open innovation program at AstraZeneca and more.
Article Early Data: Budgets, CEO Support, Metrics & Risk Tolerance
April 6, 2016 | By Scott Kirsner
In February, we posted an assessment of the maturity of corporate innovation programs — and how they are being accepted by the culture. Get early results here…
Article Schneider Electric Exec on Decision-Making in Silicon Valley
April 4, 2016 | By Stephen Ellison
Schneider Electric’s Silicon Valley outpost helps the company experiment with new services and business models. VP Paul Campbell discusses takeaways…