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Article VC the GE Way: Lessons from the Firm’s Strategy
March 31, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
GE chief executive Jeff Immelt called a meeting in 2012 to rethink the company's investing strategy. The result was the creation of a new GE Ventures team...
Article Lessons from Reliant on Setting Goals
March 18, 2014 | By Scott Cohen
Director of Innovation Scott Burns takes us inside the annual goal-setting process at Reliant Energy, part of the $8.4 billion electricity giant NRG Energy Inc...
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 Humana Exec on the Ups and Downs of Innovation Programs
March 3, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
As staffing levels have risen and fallen, and reporting relationships have changed, $40 billion health insurer Humana has kept a commitment to innovation alive.
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…
Article GM on the Skills You Need to Manage Disruptive Innovation
February 3, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
General Motors R&D executive Clay Phillips talks about how the automaker is retooling research and development in the wake of bankruptcy.
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 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 Can Your Company Invent the Future?
January 10, 2014
In the book "The New Killer Apps: How Large Companies Can Out-Innovate Start-Ups," Chunka Mui examines how Walgreens worked to claim a new position in healthcare.
Article Clay Christensen: Why Most Innovation Leaders Will Fail
January 3, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Christensen, author of the seminal business book “The Innovator’s Dilemma,” warns that too many executives don’t understand the “corporate laws of physics” in enough detail — and think they can simply will the organization to change how it works.
Article Insights and War stories: Starbucks, Kraft & Hyatt
December 30, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
What do you do when business unit executives complain that your ideas are just too complicated to deploy? Innovators from Starbucks, Kraft, and Hyatt discuss.
Article NYSE Euronext’s ‘3P Compass’
December 4, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
"How can you anchor and drive innovation in a crashing environment? The answer is you can’t," writes Dieter Eisinger of NYSE Euronext.
Article Ten Tips from Corporate Venture Investors
October 1, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
Corporate venture investing is on the rise. But if you're considering jumping in, are you doing it for the right reasons? We talked to current and former investors...
Article Is Your Company Really Set Up to Innovate?
September 15, 2013
When a company launches an innovation program, what they’re trying to say is, “We are a creative organization that wants to foster creative stuff.”
Article Is the CEO Serious about Innovation?
September 7, 2013
If you want to achieve truly transformational innovation, you have to find leaders who are open to it, and willing to organize around it, says Saul Kaplan...
Article Doing Innovation as ‘Just One Guy’
September 4, 2013 | By Scott Kirsner
The State of Maryland's Chief Innovation Officer talks about catching criminals, reducing hospital admissions, and hackathons to help the environment.
Article Four Lessons from Mullen’s Chief Innovation Officer
June 16, 2013
In June 2009, Edward Boches became the first Chief Innovation Officer at Mullen, an ad agency that works with household names like JetBlue, Adidas, and Zappos.