All articles by Scott Kirsner - Page 8

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  ArticleHow One Corporate Innovator Assembled a Volunteer Team to Print Face Shields

  April 6, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  Shashi Jain’s day job is Intel. But he’s working almost another full-time shift  as an organizer of the Portland 3D Printing Lab, which has been producing face shields for healthcare workers… 
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  ArticleHow Innovators Can Prepare for Tough Times

  January 16, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  To help you plan for (and survive) challenging times, we sought advice from seven people who have guided innovation, insights, and incubation groups through difficult stretches, at companies like Starbucks, Whirlpool, Intel, and Levi Strauss & Co. What can you be doing to put yourself and your team in the...
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  ArticleOvercoming 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...
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  ArticleEx-DreamWorks Animation CTO: How the C-Suite Can Foster Innovation

  April 13, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  ”In my experience, the most powerful motivator to encourage innovation was peer recognition,” says Ed Leonard, Co-Founder of Bred Ventures and former CTO at DreamWorks Animation. Leonard shares more on what senior leaders do at companies like DreamWorks Animation and Disney to shape a culture of innovation…
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  ArticleAt NASA, Introducing a New Openness to Innovation

  April 10, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  In a safety-obsessed culture, how do you suggest new ways to innovate? Omar Hatamleh, the first Chief Innovation Officer for the engineering group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, shares.
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  ArticleSix 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…
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  ArticleConnecting Startups in a Portfolio with Business Units

  January 3, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  Ayal Somech, Director of Portfolio Development, Boeing Horizonx Ventures, shares how his team executed a quick win. 
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  ArticleHow 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.
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  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.
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  ArticleGetting Scientists Thinking More Like Businesspeople

  January 2, 2020 | By Scott Kirsner

  Alex Byelashov, VP of Innovations & Brewing Solutions at John I. Haas, shares some insights on quick wins.