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Article Healthcare Exec Robin Glasco on ‘Going Where the Love Is’
September 27, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Robin Glasco of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts discusses why internal corporate innovation groups should “go where the love is” when pursuing new projects.
Article Designing an Innovation Culture that Scales Globally
September 12, 2017 | By Imran Sayeed
Imran Sayeed, Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses the 3D Model of Innovation that he finds is most effective for innovation programs.
Article Medtronic’s Innovation Lab on Working with Business Units
August 9, 2017 | By Scott Kirsner
The Applied Innovation Lab helps Medtronic evolve from being simply a maker of medical devices to one thinks more broadly about improving health and patient outcomes.
Video Building Consensus with Nondini Naqui
July 25, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Executive champions are key to building a culture of innovation. Nondini Naqui discusses how innovators can get buy-in from top leaders. Watch here…
Video Nondini Naqui on Working with Legal and Compliance
July 25, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken
How can you engage with legal and compliance groups on innovation efforts — and make them feel part of your success? Nondini Naqui shares best practices in this video.
Article Innovation Challenges & Choices with Nondini Naqui
July 25, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Scott Kirsner
Nondini Naqui, an intrapreneur and innovation leader who has worked in insurance and banking, discusses the challenges innovators face and how to overcome obstacles.
On Demand Webcast New Tools & Resources for InnoLeads
May 30, 2017
Recording of our May 2017 webcast, featuring Scott Kirsner and Aaron Proietti explaining how to use six of our new downloadable resources, and answering questions.
Article Monthly Progress Report on Innovation Impact
May 9, 2017 | By Aaron Proietti
Here's a report you can adapt, developed by a former Transamerica innovation exec. It provides feedback to stakeholders, ensuring that you maintain their support...
Article How to Survive a Management or Strategy Change
May 6, 2017 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Kelsey Alpaio
Preparing for shifts in leadership, as well as changes in strategy, helps innovation teams persist. Mona Vernon, Chief Technology Officer of Thomson Reuters, shares her tips.
Article The Key Players and Tensions in Corporate Innovation
April 25, 2017
We partnered with XPLANE, the renowned “visual thinking” firm, to create a map of the corporate innovation ecosystem, along with discussion questions.
Article RASCI Matrix for Building Support for Innovation Projects
April 20, 2017 | By Aaron Proietti
A RASCI matrix is a tool that can be used to build consistent support for innovation, while mitigating against common failure modes like role ambiguity. Download it here...
On Demand Webcast Innovation and the Business Units
April 11, 2017
InnoLead shares data from our survey on the ties between business units and innovation groups. Executives from Fidelity Investments, Aon Health, GOJO Industries, and Trek Bicycle, share their perspectives.
On Demand Live Call Getting Buy-In, ‘No Time Syndrome,’ and Premature Scaling
March 24, 2017
Executives from Humana, GE, Intuit discuss why do employees and executives in large organizations resist participating in innovation efforts, and how to solve the problem.
On Demand Webcast The Innovation Agenda for 2017
February 13, 2017
What are innovators thinking about as we head in to 2017? InnoLead editor Scott Kirsner discusses what we’re seeing corporate innovation teams focus on.
Article Connecting Corporate Venture Capital to Business at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts
February 7, 2017
Zaffre Investments, a part of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has a clear objective: Finding startups solve problems in the company’s ecosystem.
On Demand Live Call Why Groupe Galeries Lafayette Launched an Accelerator Program
February 6, 2017
Galeries Lafayette’s Plug & Play startup accelerator, launched in 2016. The program seeks to attract the best fashion and retail-oriented startups from around the world. Find out more…
Article How Business Units Work with J&J’s Innovation Centers
January 24, 2017
When J&J makes a new investment in a startup, “50 percent of the deal funding [comes] from J&J Innovation, and the business unit provides the other 50 percent…”
Article How Aon Health Invites Leaders to Help Set the Innovation Agenda
January 11, 2017
Jim Winkler of Aon Health explains the process that his team uses to set the innovation agenda, and determine priorities, in collaboration with line of business executives.
On Demand Live Call How the Creative and Business Sides Can Get Along
December 20, 2016
American Greetings’ Carol Miller describes how the company creates meaningful connections with family and friends, bridging creativity and the business side of greeting cards.
On Demand Live Call How Innovation and R&D Can ‘Increase Awesome’
December 12, 2016
Kevin Parsons of Northrop Grumman shared how his innovation group is influencing the culture and bringing business units into its process.