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Crowdsourcing can help your team discover new ideas. Steve Rader of NASA’s Johnson Space Center will discuss his experience with harnessing the power of the crowd. 

Dr. Chris Haskell discusses how Bayer partners with startups, academic institutions, and other corporates at the company’s Innovation center.

Alex Osterwalder, inventor of the Business Model Canvas, shares how testing new business models can help companies prepare for the future.

Rob Martens of security company, Allegion, discussed how his team uses venture capital to balance internal and external innovation. Elliot Parker of venture firm High Alpha also shared his experience.

In our “Building Idea Challenges that Work” conference call, Kate O’Keeffe, founder of Cisco’s Hyper Innovation Living Lab (CHILL), shares how she built a 48-hour bootcamp with impact.

We had our members ask us anything on their minds. HYPE Innovation’s Jennifer Dunn and Scott Kirsner from InnoLead answered questions.

Open innovation guru Henry Chesbrough discusses how open innovation is being practiced at companies like Intel, Eli Lilly, Bayer, and United HealthCare.

As part of our IL Live series, we spoke with Shannon Clute, Director of Business Development and Strategy at TCM, about the channel’s “bottom-up” innovation strategy.

David Lee, UPS’s Vice President of Innovation, oversees UPS’ corporate investing arm, the Strategic Enterprise Fund. Lee discusses the initiative in this call…

Dennis McGrath of Starbucks discusses how the company developed a new protocol for testing ideas, when to bring in stakeholders, and building a failure-tolerant culture.

Jesse Bean of Manulife Financial shares his advice about setting up a network of labs, building support among middle management, and the “DevOps” approach.

Faisal Masud, Staples’ Chief Technology Officer, shares how the company approaches digital innovation. Topics of discussion include  chatbots, recruiting tech talent, and shifts in retail.

Creating an iconic brand requires more than great design. Find out what makes a brand iconic from Soon Yu the former Global VP of Innovation at VF Corporation. 

Executives from Humana, GE, Intuit discuss why do employees and executives in large organizations resist participating in innovation efforts, and how to solve the problem.

Karim Lakhani of Harvard Business School discusses why people resist crowdsourcing and if teams should run competitions on their crowdsourcing platforms.

Galeries Lafayette’s Plug & Play startup accelerator, launched in 2016. The program seeks to attract the best fashion and retail-oriented startups from around the world. Find out more… 

American Greetings’ Carol Miller describes how the company creates meaningful connections with family and friends, bridging creativity and the business side of greeting cards.

Kevin Parsons of Northrop Grumman shared how his innovation group is influencing the culture and bringing business units into its process.

Christopher Bailey of ExxonMobil, discusses operationally-focused innovation and how ExxonMobil promotes innovation through its Grassroots Innovation Forum. 

Jeff Saviano, who runs innovation inside EY’s tax practice for the Americas, shares advice and insights on launching innovation programs. 

Capital One’s The Garage is an incubator that brings together cross-functional teams to create new products and services. Find out more…

We spoke with Joe Pine about how social media and virtual reality are changing the nature of experiences; Uber, Hilton, and Capital One; and more.

If you’ve been debating whether to roll out lean startup methodology in your organization, Bennett Blank of Intuit has a question: What are you waiting for?

Cisco’s Alex Goryachev discussed the company’s recent Innovate Everywhere Challenge, including how he got thousands of employees to participate.

Scott Wilkins of AstraZeneca and his colleague Rob Albert discuss the roots of the open innovation program at AstraZeneca and more.

Marla Capozzi of McKinsey & Co.’s Global Strategy & Innovation Practice discusses why an organization’s commitment to innovation shouldn’t wax and wane and more.

In this live call, Calvin Smith of EMC Corp., the data storage and cloud giant, discusses creating a central fund for innovation; incrimental versus radical innovation; and more.

In our Live Call with Justin Graham of Hearst Health, we talk about the innovation lab he oversees in San Francisco, including staffing, funding, and the focus of the lab.

Trek exec Chad Manuell discusses why one of the company’s skunkworks didn’t work. Other topics of discussion include trends in the industry and long-term thinking.

Lean startup guru Steve Blank talks about the challenges of bringing lean startup into a large company and the decisions to be made before setting up an “innovation outpost.” 

Steve Blank discusses the unfortunate situation many companies confront after investing millions in R&D and new product development…

General Mills executive Jim Kirkwood discusses how the $17.6 billion consumer packaged goods giant creates minimum viable products…

Jim Kirkwood, Chief Science and Technology Development Officer at General Mills, explains how the company “gets to the first dollar fast” with pilot tests.

Gap Inc.’s Dean of Global Innovation talks about creativity, co-creation, the Mindspark training initiative, and the importance of solving small problems first.

Asoka Veeravagu of Jarden Consumer Solutions, discusses exploring new subscription business models and co-creation. The company owns Mr. Coffee, Aerobed, and Sunbeam.

On our latest InnoLead Live call, we spoke with Aaron Proietti of Transamerica about the evolution of the insurance company’s innovation program — including approaches that have worked, and those that haven’t. 

Graham Milner of WD-40 talks about how the publicly-traded San Diego company with the iconic blue-and-yellow cans has grown beyond a single product.

Allstate’s Moises Norena talks about how the $34 billion insurer is measuring innovation impact and why innovation can sometimes be a tough sell in a services business.

Nicole Bell, Executive Director of the new Cambia Grove, discusses how and why her employer, Cambia Health Solutions, created the the facility.

VP of Innovation and Entrepreneurship David Butler talks about his work to combine entrepreneurial ideas and speed with Coca-Cola’s scale and brand power.