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Article Budget Cuts Close Turner Tech Office, Startup Accelerator
January 7, 2015 | By Scott Kirsner
Late December brought another unfortunate example of corporate budget cuts bringing the curtain down on an innovation team — this one at Turner Broadcasting...
Article Insights from PayPal Co-Founder Peter Thiel
December 17, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
In this audio excerpt, Peter Thiel discusses how internal politics can tilt decision-making in large companies towards conventional ideas and away from what is truly disruptive.
On Demand Webcast Fidelity VP on Tools for Innovation Teams
December 17, 2014
Rick Smyers of Fidelity Investments explains how you can put the right strategy, tools, and people in place to make a real impact — and details some of his team’s successful projects.
Article Why Visa Set Up a Digital Payments Innovation Lab
November 19, 2014 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
As more consumers look to pay for things without a credit card or carrying cash, Visa exec Bill Gajda explains the company's thinking behind a new innovation center in San Francisco.
On Demand Live Call Hospital Innovation Exec Talks Disruption, Events & Engagement
November 10, 2014
Lesley Solomon of Brigham & Women’s Hospital in Boston, discusses running hackathons, and how she gets busy clinicians engaged with innovation initiatives.
Article How GM’s Silicon Valley Office Hunts for Relevant Innovations
October 1, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Managing director Frankie James talks about how her Silicon Valley-based team identifies high-potential startups and new technologies and interacts with teams at GM headquarters.
Article GameStop’s Technology Institute Explores Future of Retail
September 15, 2014 | By Patricia Riedman Yeager
In March, the $9 billion videogame retailer created the GameStop Technology Institute to help it develop new experiences and offerings for the "empowered consumer."
Article How Heathrow Airport Clears Emerging Tech for Take-Off
August 18, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
London’s Heathrow Airport handles 72 million passengers a year. Amidst the need for operational efficiency, Richard Harding explains what the innovation team has achieved.
Article Disney SVP on How Accelerator Program Led to New Partnerships
August 5, 2014
With the Walt Disney Co. about to launch the second round of its Disney Accelerator program for startups, we caught up with Michael Abrams, Senior Vice President of Innovation.
Article GE’s Chief Marketing Officer on Opening up to Innovation
July 30, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Beth Comstock talks about how GE pursues speed and growth through partnerships: investing in startups, crowdsourcing, & inviting inventors to use patents…
Article Why Audi of America is Hiring Robotic Repair Advisors
July 9, 2014 | By Judy Quinn
Audi of America is rolling out telepresence robots at 18 of its highest-volume U.S. dealerships, in an effort to accelerate repairs and improve customer satisfaction.
Article Why Lowe’s Innovation Lab Hired Sci-Fi Writers to Guide Strategy
July 1, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Kyle Nel of Lowe’s Innovation Labs explains why the home improvement retailer created a comic book to help executives evaluate possible future scenarios.
Article How Publisher Pearson Gets Close to Education Startups
June 3, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
“Education is changing — there’s no denying that,” says Diana Stepner of Pearson plc. Here’s what the British publishing company is doing to connect with tech startups…
Article How Vodafone unites VC, New Products & Marketing
May 20, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Fay Arjomandi talks about the "xone" initiative to help Vodafone identify and work with startups that can improve its network and customer experience...
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 Why Delphi Planted an Innovation Lab in Silicon Valley
April 16, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Delphi Labs director John Absmeier explains how the automotive components giant is partnering, investing, and plugging into the Silicon Valley ecosystem…
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 Ten Insights from Textron’s Scorpion Jet Program
March 19, 2014 | By Scott Kirsner
Textron set an audacious goal: Get a new military plane from concept to the runway in under two years. Execs shared what they learned on the journey...
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 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…