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Podcast Podcast: Who are the Unsung Persistent Innovators?
March 22, 2022 | By Collin Robisheaux
In this bonus episode of the Persistent Innovators miniseries, InnoLead covers six more persistent innovators in various industries – including food and beverage, manufacturing, and telecom.
Video How Do You Move From Thinking to Doing? IKEA Shares Best Practices for Pilot Tests
March 22, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
How do you move from thinking to doing? IKEA Co-Creation and Matrix Manager Cindy Soo shares best practices.
Video CSAA Insurance & Fidelity: Building Innovation Muscles for the Long Haul
March 21, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
CSAA Insurance’s Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Debra Brackeen, talks with Mona Vernon of Fidelity Investments about building lasting innovation structures.
Article Buying Coffee in the Metaverse: How Fiserv Thinks About the Future of Payments
March 18, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall, Kate Katz
Alvin Cho is Vice President of Product & Engineering for Digital Innovation and Transformation at Fiserv, and he oversees the company’s Developer Studio, a set of APIs and tools that make it easy to integrate Fiserv’s offerings into all sorts of new and existing products. We spoke with Cho about the objectives...
Video TripAdvisor CEO: The Role That Leaders Play in Fostering Innovation
March 18, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
TripAdvisor CEO Stephen Kaufer and best-selling author Rita McGrath discuss how the travel site has developed new offerings since its 2000 birth, above a pizza shop in the Boston suburbs.
Video How Augmented Reality Will Change Our Lives — at Home and at Work
March 16, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
Author David Rose talks about augmenting how we see with LaForge Optical CEO Corey Mack and Mike Quigley of Niantic, the company behind the game “Pokémon Go.”
Article Useful, Usable, Scalable: The Model $7B SAIC Uses to De-Risk New Ventures
March 14, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
One tool that tech integrator SAIC relies on as it works to develop a portfolio of new offerings is a Maturity Model. It helps the company “to rapidly discover, with minimal investment, whether something begs to be invested in — or not,” explains VP Heath Starr. Details inside.
Article Should You Close Your Physical Innovation Lab and Open One in the Metaverse?
March 11, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
A recent conversation among InnoLead members spent less time on brick-and-mortar innovation labs — and more time discussing the possibilities of bringing people together for meetings and collaboration in virtual reality, and some of the training and support hassles that produces.
Article Member Spotlight: Joshua Kreger, Pinnacol Assurance
March 9, 2022 | By Kate Katz
Joshua Kreger is Director of Safety Innovation and Strategy at Colorado-based Pinnacol Assurance, which provides worker’s compensation insurance. We spoke with him about the software he uses, and the need for radical candor, as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.
Video New Book: What It Takes to Succeed as a ‘Corporate Explorer’
March 7, 2022 | By Collin Robisheaux
Veteran corporate innovator Russell Rogers talks with two of the authors of the new book Corporate Explorer, about metrics, C-level support, and whether there is a “right” number of ideas to collect and cultivate. Includes a PDF excerpt from the book.
Article How a New Partnership is Helping the Dairy Industry Drive Toward Net Zero Goals
March 4, 2022 | By Kate Katz
The US dairy industry is committed to achieve carbon neutrality, optimized water usage and improved water quality by 2050. To understand how these goals are put into action, InnoLead spoke to Syngenta and The Nature Conservancy about a new partnership aimed at getting farmers to adopt more sustainable practices.
Article How AI and Decentralized Clinical Trials are Changing Biopharma
March 3, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
“As humans, we have limitations in being able to integrate and synthesize and look at data,” says venture capitalist John Orloff, formerly Global Head of R&D at Alexion Pharmaceuticals. “I think AI and machine learning technology will allow us to make better decisions and choices, and give us new insights...
Podcast Podcast: What Makes Novartis a Persistent Innovator?
February 25, 2022 | By Wade Roush
In the fourth and final episode of the “Persistent Innovators” miniseries, Wade Roush dives into Novartis, the Switzerland-based healthcare company, to explore how long-term innovation can thrive in the world of pharmaceuticals.
On Demand Webcast Converting Ideas into Realized Value at Cisco
February 24, 2022
In this Master Class, Artem Ignatenko and Tad Haas discuss Cisco’s journey of establishing an “assembly line for innovation delivery,” creating one seamless and holistic process for converting successful ideas into business value.
Article What I Wish I Knew Before I Joined the Innovation Team
February 24, 2022 | By Matt Mueller, Contributing Columnist
Innovation is about going fast… or so Matt Mueller thought as an innovation novice drafted onto the team at a major food brand. In this piece, Mueller shares the challenges he wished he knew about beforehand.
Resource How Companies are Using or Redesigning Physical Innovation Spaces, and How They’re Creating Persistent Virtual Spaces for Innovation
February 23, 2022
In February 2022, we convened an InnoLead members' meeting on Zoom to talk about how companies were using their physical innovation spaces, or experimenting with virtual ones.
Article Kellogg’s R&D Chief on Plant-Based Proteins and New Ways of Testing Products
February 22, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
The company’s SVP of Global R&D talks about getting plant-based protein to an affordable price point; how the company is moving from focus groups to in-market testing; and why the $13 billion company hires “food designers” rather than food scientists.
Article 5 Ways to Strengthen Your Corporate Innovation Scaffolding
February 21, 2022 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
”You know you’re in trouble when, instead of displaying the fire within, you fear being fired,” writes Mohan Nair. In his latest column for corporate innovators, Nair offers five key insights to build an effective scaffold in any industry.
Article Comcast Labs SVP on Trends, Working with Startups, and Failing Fast
February 19, 2022
Comcast SVP Ruth Dawson lays out the trends she’s paying attention to, and the three avenues that a Comcast Labs project can travel: a hand-off to the business, a temporary hold, or a full stop.
Article How W.L. Gore Looks to Partnerships, R&D, and Acquisitions to Accelerate Progress
February 19, 2022
The privately-held company’s Chief Technology Officer, Greg Hannon, talks about metrics, AI, and healthcare as a growth industry.