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Thought Leadership The Innovation CFO
June 20, 2023 | By Brian Miske, KPMG
Brian Miske, Managing Director of KPMG Ignition, outlines the importance of engaging CFOs when it comes to innovation activities. He also shares 12 actionable steps for making that collaboration happen.
Article Pernod Ricard Innovation Exec on Moving Fast in New Product Development
June 9, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
Kate Pomeroy, Head of Innovation North America for Paris-based alcohol giant Pernod Ricard, shares how her innovation team goes about creating new products for consumers quickly, while also including key stakeholders in decision-making processes.
Video Building New Skills for the AI Era
June 6, 2023
InnoLead's Scott Kirsner talks with Sandra Loughlin, the Chief Learning Scientist at EPAM, about how individuals and organizations should think about developing new skills — and dealing with anxieties — related to the coming AI era.
Article 5 Generative AI Reports Worth Reading — May 2023
May 29, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
How are you staying up-to-date on generative AI? In such a fast-moving space, it's important to have recent data, information, and insights. InnoLead CEO Scott Kirsner provides five worthwhile reads in the gen AI space.
Article Member Spotlight: Sara Kraft, AstraZeneca
May 26, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
As part of our Member Spotlight series, we talked with Sara Kraft, Director of Innovation and Business Strategy at AstraZeneca, about her role, standing up a new innovation function, and more.
Article Discovering Use Cases for Generative AI
May 5, 2023 | By Keith Hopper, Founder, Danger Fort Labs
"The struggle to understand AI's potential is causing most of us to get stuck in beginner mode," writes Keith Hopper of Danger Fort Labs, "unable to see how the technology might be applied inside our organizations. What I needed was a better understanding of what generative AI is good at."...
Article New Book Explores How AI and Automation Will Reshape the Economy
May 3, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
Yossi Sheffi, director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, discusses his insights on how AI could create jobs, gives use cases for AI solutions in a number of industries, and more.
Article ASICS’ Director of Digital Innovation Says Web3 Isn’t Going Away
April 24, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
Joe Pace, Director of Digital Innovation at ASICS, the Japanese-based sportswear company, shares how the company has been experimenting with and validating Web3.
Article Leaders Share Concrete Outcomes from Purpose-Guided Innovation
April 7, 2023 | By Christa Avampato, Contributing Writer, Meghan Hall
Senior leaders from REI Co-op, Square, Clif Bar & Co., and Save the Children share the initiatives, products, and practices that have come from using purpose as a guiding principle inside their organizations.
Article Book Excerpt: Why I Banned the Word ‘Alignment’ on My Team
April 3, 2023 | By Atif Rafiq
Atif Rafiq, the Fortune 500's first Chief Digital Officer, shares an excerpt from his upcoming book, Decision Spring: The New Way to Innovate into the Unknown and Move from Strategy to Action.
Article Senior Leaders on Communicating Purpose, Inside and Outside the Organization
March 29, 2023 | By Christa Avampato, Meghan Hall
As part of our Innovation on Purpose series, sponsored by BCG BrightHouse, senior leaders from Goodwin Procter, General Motors, and more give their thoughts on how communicating about purpose with a variety of stakeholders affects its prominence in an organization.
Article Advice from Large Companies on Establishing Purpose
March 22, 2023 | By Christa Avampato, Meghan Hall
Senior leaders from Clif Bar & Co., Square, and more weigh in on how to set up purpose inside your organization as part of our series, Innovation on Purpose, sponsored by BCG BrightHouse.
Article Leaders Weigh in on the Challenges of Purpose-Driven Innovation
March 21, 2023 | By Christa Avampato, Meghan Hall
Senior leaders from Geisinger, Save the Children, Dole Sunshine, and General Motors share the challenges they have had with innovating purposefully as part of our series, Innovation on Purpose, sponsored by BCG BrightHouse.
Article Comcast Ventures Partner on What’s Changing in Corporate VC
March 17, 2023
We talk with Allison Goldberg of Comcast Ventures about how the corporate venture capital business is changing in 2023, and how her team works to connect startups to the broader organization.
Article Mastercard’s Chief Innovation Officer on Reducing Risk, Avoiding Turf Wars, and Measuring Success
March 15, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
As part of our recent research report, Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2023, we interviewed Ken Moore, Chief Innovation Officer of Mastercard. He offered his advice for avoiding internal turf wars; gave insights on emerging tech; and discussed the importance of customer-centricity.
Article Chief Digital Officer of Chico’s on Delivering a Digital-First Mindset
March 9, 2023 | By Meghan Hall
Jay Topper, Chief Digital Officer of women's clothing brand Chico's, gives his insights on developing a digital-first mindset inside a large organization. He discusses failure, communicating with leadership, and trends for consumers and retailers to look for in 2023.
Article How to Use ChatGPT as a Tool for Innovation
March 7, 2023 | By Alex Slawsby
We’ve been talking to corporate leaders about their use of ChatGPT, and doing some experimenting ourselves, and put together this short guide to how to get value from it today as part of your insights, analysis, and front-end innovation work.
Article Building a Trust and Safety Program in the Digital Age
February 24, 2023 | By Risa Stein, Director of Product, Integrity, Slack
Risa Stein, Director of Product, Integrity at Slack, shares her insights on the importance of building safer digital environments. She includes advice on building a team focused on safety and integrity; explains how that team can add value to an organization; and more.
Article TDK Ventures Managing Director on Connecting Startups with ‘the Mothership’
February 23, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
TDK Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of TDK Corporation, a Japanese multinational conglomerate. TDK Ventures Managing DIrector Anil Achyuta talks about taking a win-win approach to CVC — and how his team connects startups it invests in to the larger organization.
On Demand Webcast Master Class: Fresh Benchmarking Data on Corporate Innovation
February 21, 2023
Hour-long webcast replay that explores data highlights from the research report Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2023, including data on team size, budget expectations, and innovation challenges.