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Article An Annotated Map of 20 Corporate Innovation Hubs in Atlanta
March 9, 2020
We put together this map of 20 key corporate innovation hubs in Atlanta. The list includes innovation centers, accelerators, and corporate venture capital funds.
On Demand Webcast Boundaries, Blockers, and Overcoming the Limits of Innovation
March 5, 2020
Learn methods for recognizing the boundaries to innovation practices, and how to work around them. Get advice on how to move your organization into a position to thrive.
Article Overcoming Politics and Internal Resistance: Advice from Your Peers
March 3, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
At our Silicon Valley Deep Dive event in February, we asked a group of 30 innovation, emerging technology, and R&D leaders from industries like apparel, financial services, telecom, and manufacturing to discuss the things that can help overcome organizational resistance to innovation — as well as some of the things...
Article Five Innovation Best Practices to Kick Off March
March 2, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
We released one video from Impact 2019 each week this month. We have also gathered five best practices from our February online coverage below.
Article Don’t Celebrate Failure, Celebrate Trying to Solve Hard Problems
February 27, 2020
Instead of celebrating failure, writes Brian Mullen, a former hospital innovation team member, teams should celebrate attempts to solve problems.
Video General Motors and IBM on the Role of a Silicon Valley R&D Outpost
February 24, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
R&D leaders from General Motors and IBM discuss the mission of the companies’ Silicon Valley outposts, and the importance of tracking first movers in an emerging market.
Article Six Ways to Integrate Startups Without Crushing Their Spirits
February 19, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
Raphael Guillet was a co-founder of the first startup that the $4 billion hospitality company Accor acquired. Since then, Accor has bought about a dozen other startups…
Video How General Mills Uses ‘Breakup Letters’ to Better Understand Consumers
February 18, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Jodi Benson shares how General Mills puts consumer needs first, and how a 150+ year old company is evolving the way it innovates to better meet those needs.
Article How to Create a Culture of Experimentation
February 17, 2020 | By Kelsey Alpaio
Relying on intuition often leads teams down the wrong path. Stefan Thomke, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains how to rely on experiments instead.
Video ‘Loonshots’: How to Support Crazy Ideas That Just Might Work
February 13, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken, Scott Kirsner
Ideas that have the potential to reshape industries may end up stuck in the corporate basement. So how can companies embrace risky ideas? Authors Safi Bahcall and Hugh Molotsi serve up answers in this video.
Podcast Drones, Self-Driving Cars & the Silicon Valley Problem
February 11, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
In this episode, Chris Anderson — CEO of 3DR, a drone software company — shares insights from his career and entrepreneurial ventures. Harvard Business Publishing’s Chief Product and Innovation Officer Josh Macht facilities. To get best practices from other innovators, watch other videos from our Impact main stage. Additional Resources: Get insights from...
Article Six Tips for Getting ‘Customers’ to Buy What You’re Selling
February 6, 2020 | By Chris Mayer, Contributing Columnist and Independent Consultant at CMayer Consulting
“One way to ensure alignment,” writes Chris Mayer, “is to think of the innovation initiative as a consumer-oriented business with colleagues as customers.” Mayer, who served as the first Chief Innovation Officer at a large construction company, offers guidance on how to do that.
Video Innovation Insights from Our 2019 Impact Main Stage
February 3, 2020 | By Kaitlin Milliken
Chris Anderson — CEO of 3DR, a pioneer of the drone industry — shares his experience building and deploying autonomous vehicles at InnoLead’s 2019 Impact event. Includes video…
Video Best Videos: Corporate Innovation Concepts and Methodologies
January 31, 2020
Watch our favorite YouTube videos on key innovation concepts and methodologies like the three horizons, the Innovator’s Dilemma, design thinking, and rapid prototyping.
Article Book Excerpt: Incentivizing the Behaviors That Support Innovation
January 29, 2020
What if businesses focused on company performance today as well as a year from now? Alex Goryachev of Cisco explains.
Article How Disney’s Philosophy on Failure Drives Growth
January 27, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
“I have always tried to make everyone aware that failure is not a corporate death sentence,” says former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. Here are some of the biggest failures Disney has experienced in the last 20 years — and how the entertainment giant has bounced back.
Article Former LEGO Exec: 5 Habits of Successful Corporate Intrapreneurs
January 23, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner
David Gram, formerly a leader at LEGO Ventures and LEGO Creative Play Lab, outlines five habits that set corporate intrapreneurs up for success. The first one: Accept that people will hate your project.
On Demand Webcast Ask Us Anything Webcast, with General Mills & Citi Ventures
January 17, 2020
Beth Devin of Citi Ventures and Kirsten Aune of General Mills joined us to answer innovation questions submitted by our members.
Article Banking Insights and Identifying Post-Recession Opportunities
January 16, 2020
“Being seen as a group that is purely visionary and focused on idea generation can make your group vulnerable to cuts,” writes Michael Perman, a former innovation and marketing leader at Gap Inc. and Levi Strauss. Perman explains how to avoid that fate when recessions, or other organizational stressors, are...
Article What to Do When the Cost-Cutting Knives Come Out
January 16, 2020 | By Rick Waldron, Contributing Columnist & Former VP of Innovation Strategy, Nike
When times are good, corporate innovation groups often get a pass. What do you do when things aren’t so good? Here’s advice from Rick Waldron, a former innovation leader at Nike and Intel.