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Article Why Pampered Chef is Reinventing a Well-Established Sales Model
July 14, 2020 | By Lilly Milman
The migration away from in-person selling actually predates COVID-19 for Pampered Chef, but they’re taking advantage of the moment to experiment with social media.
Article The Rise of ‘Conferencing Competence’ and the Decline of Fancy Footwear
July 13, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Thornton May contends that many leaders — and many organizations — are moving too slowly in responding to the dramatic changes that 2020 has brought. More insights inside…
On Demand Webcast Innovation Software Showcase
July 10, 2020
At our first Software Showcase, in July 2020, InnoLead’s strategic partners share their digital innovation tools. Watch the pitch sessions here.
On Demand Webcast Discover, Access & Manage Ecosystem Relationships in a Low/No Touch World
July 9, 2020
How do you build ecosystems when travel and serendipity are limited for the foreseeable future? Watch this webcast to learn how to form partnerships during lockdown.
Article New Data About the Market for Innovation-Related Jobs
July 8, 2020 | By Alex Slawsby
We asked 159 innovation professionals about the hiring happening in their organizations — or how long they’ve been hunting for a new role.
Podcast Leveling Up Customer Empathy at Fitbit & More
July 7, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
How can teams use empathy to understand their customers? Irina Kozlovskaya, Director of Industrial Design at Fitbit, shares how her team uses empathy to design better products.
Article Scenario Planning in 2020: What You Should (and Shouldn’t) Be Doing
July 6, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
The business and societal impacts of the coronavirus pandemic will be “more like World War I or the Great Depression,” says Matthew Ranen, a scenario-planning consultant.
Article Inside the R&D Culture at Pixar Animation Studios
July 3, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Pixar’s VP of R&D, Guido Quaroni, explains how and why the company encourages collaborative work. ”A culture of too much individualism…is always a dangerous place to be,” says Quaroni. Here’s how Pixar’s culture operates.
Article Highlights from June on Anticipating “The New Normal”
July 2, 2020 | By Lilly Milman
We’ve gathered the best pieces of recent advice from our live show, report, and other online coverage to help you imagine the future and plan your next steps.
Article Quiz: Test Your Innovation Knowledge
July 2, 2020
How much do you know about corporate innovation concepts, key thinkers, famous failures, and Silicon Valley disruptors? Try our 22 question quiz…
On Demand Webcast CVS Health Exec on Rising to the Digital Demands of COVID-19
July 1, 2020
Firdaus Bhathena, Chief Digital Officer of CVS Health, shares how his team has pivoted to meet consumer needs — like exploding demand for deliveries — during the coronavirus pandemic.
Podcast What Comes Back and When? Exploring Life After COVID-19
June 30, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
What’s changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic? What’s likely to come back? And when? InnoLead’s ”What the Future Looks Like” report seeks to answer that question.
On Demand Webcast How AARP is Pivoting Innovation in 2020 and Investing in Startups
June 26, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
At InnoLead’s recent online event for nonprofit organizations, Andy Miller of AARP discussed how his team helps build an innovative culture that permeates the organization — and how they’re making new investments in startups.
Article Stop Trying to ‘Bounce Back’ to Normal
June 25, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Rather than trying to restore all of the activities from February 2020 in the US, we should be thinking about how to “bounce forward” toward something new.
On Demand Webcast Pulling Back the Curtain on Disney’s Storied Imagineering Department
June 24, 2020
What can you learn from the creative cultures of Walt Disney Imagineering and Pixar? Leslie Iwerks, a documentary filmmaker, has made films about both organizations. She shares what she observed in this replay of “One Quick Thing.” Iwerks is joined on the show by two unnanounced guests: her father, Don Iwerks, who...
Podcast How R&D Keeps the CPG Industry on the Cutting-Edge
June 23, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
In this episode, we wanted to find out: “How is the CPG industry innovating to meet consumer demands?” Ranjani Varadan, VP of R&D at Impossible Foods, discusses how her team gets consumers to buy in to their future-forward vision. Jodi Benson explains why her team had customers write break-up letters to...
Article Can COVID Actually Turbocharge Parts of the Economy? This VC Says Yes
June 22, 2020 | By Lilly Milman
Juan Enriquez, Managing Director of the venture capital fund Excel Venture Management, sees “crazy amounts of productive innovation taking place” as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. But the risk he sees is going back to the way things were pre-COVID in the life sciences sector.
Video The Three Crises Caused by COVID-19 — and How to Respond
June 19, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Scott Kirsner
Futurist Steve Brown sees the current pandemic as three overlapping crises — each requiring a different response. See how innovation plays into the solution…
Article Moving Museums and Universities into the Digital Realm
June 19, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
At our Innovation Strategy for Nonprofits event, Arthur Daemmrich of the Smithsonian Institution and Panos Panay of Berklee College of Music discussed how their teams have been pivoting to offer educational experiences online.
Article How MassMutual Is Reimagining Financial Education
June 18, 2020 | By Lilly Milman
In Good Company, a MassMutual initiative, wants to help participants manage their financial futures with workshops, free of charge.