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Insurance & Technology April 2, 2008 Nathan Conz	The Hartford's Innovation Lab Unveils LIFT Initiative The Hartford's Innovation Lab, headed by John Anthony, is piloting LIFT, a telematics-based research project aimed at finding the causes of repetitive back injuries common in its workers compensation business.
Insurance & Technology May 3, 2006 Anthony O'Donnell	Plotkin Drives Innovation All chief technology officers must concern themselves with meeting not just current but also future enterprise technology needs. The Hartford's CTO Gary Plotkin is one of the few executives who has made this a priority.
CRM June 24, 2011 Elisa O'Donnell	Kill the Office of Innovation What it really takes to create a thriving innovation capacity within an organization.
IndustryWeek January 31, 2012 Josh Cable	GE Barometer: Executives Believe Innovation and Growth Go Hand-in-Hand However, uncertainty in the global economy is curbing their companies' appetites for risk and making it harder for them to find capital.
IndustryWeek June 1, 2004 John Teresko	Open Innovation? Rewards And Challenges Open Innovation is a strategy of finding and bringing in new ideas that are complementary to existing research & development projects. But open innovation does not just happen. It requires changes in corporate culture and must be driven from the top.
Bank Technology News February 2010 Karen Epper Hoffman	Banks Incubate The Innovation Fixation Most banks don't have Apple-esque credentials when it comes to innovation, but more are not only seeing the value of thinking out the box, but also understanding that creativity doesn't happen in isolation-hence the innovation lab.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2004 John Teresko	Technology Leader Of The Year -- P&G's Secret: Innovating Innovation In 2000, the CTO of America's biggest consumer packaged goods company began his technology and innovation driven transformation of what some called a stodgy 167-year old Midwestern giant. Now, he's been acknowledged as its "technical innovation leader" by the company's CEO.
IndustryWeek December 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Kraft Crafts an Open Innovation Strategy Consumer packaged goods manufacturer Kraft finds innovation value in collaborating with suppliers.
IndustryWeek November 16, 2011 David Peace	Strategies for Success in Product Innovation Two strategies prime your pipeline for faster, more profitable product development.
HBS Working Knowledge March 20, 2006 Huston & Sakkab	P&G's New Innovation Model Procter & Gamble's assessment of its aging innovation process and the development of connect and develop.
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2013 Richie Etwaru	Innovation Calls Across the C-suite: Lessons From Wall Street The lifeblood of the life sciences industry is continuous innovation; it is not a business that can survive by standing still.
BusinessWeek November 17, 2003 Samuel J. Palmisano	How The U.S. Can Keep Its Innovation Edge Where, how, and why innovation happens is changing. If we're not careful, the U.S. will fall out of step with these new realities, and innovators and risk-takers will go elsewhere -- because they can.
Global Services November 4, 2008 Jolie Newman	The Innovation Imperative Understand the essential nature of innovation in outsourcing engagements.
IndustryWeek October 20, 2010	Innovation Nation? Manufacturers are more involved than other industries in innovation, but engagement is hardly widespread.
Bank Systems & Technology March 29, 2006 Katherine Burger	You're Wearing That? Innovation is not just about new products and services, but also encompasses business model innovation, process innovation, culture innovation and management system innovation.
IndustryWeek June 23, 2010	Consider This -- Five Key Concepts for Sustainable Innovation Mastering these fundamentals can stimulate your innovation efforts and the global economy.
Global Services November 29, 2007	The Future of Innovation The challenges are there, but so are the opportunities to open up vast new global markets through innovation.
CIO December 23, 2008 Jarina D'Auria	Five Things Judy Estrin Has Learned About Closing the Innovation Gap In her book, Closing the Innovation Gap, former Cisco CTO Judy Estrin shares why CIOs and other leaders must nurture innovation to fend off global competition.
Bank Technology News June 2010 John Pyrovolakis	Innovators: A Call to Action The Innovation Accelerator wishes to leverage great and innovative technologies developed in our nation's research universities and federal research labs on the strength of federal funding to empower our nation's banking industry.
Fast Company December 2004 Carleen Hawn	Lessons on Innovation From Microsoft There are plenty of internal reasons why Microsoft's record of innovation is so lackluster. But the company's failure also points to three much bigger lessons about innovation.
IndustryWeek May 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Bookshelf: Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way your Company Innovates In their new book, Peter Skarzynski and Rowan Gibson detail how to evaluate new growth opportunities, provide guidelines to manage innovation resources and suggest design rules to improve a corporation's innovation pipeline.
AFP eWire October 14, 2008	Fundraising Strategies: Make Time for Innovation In fundraising and the nonprofit sector as a whole, the sky is the limit for new ideas and better methods. But the trick, say the authors of a recent W.K. Kellogg Foundation report, is to incorporate a culture of systematic innovation.
Insurance & Technology April 2, 2008 Nathan Conz	The Hartford's P&C Division Enters Execution Stage of Transformational Effort After four years of investment and organizational transformation, The Hartford's P&C division looks to execute its new strategy to provide better value to its business customers and end users.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2008 Jill Jusko	Measured Success: By The Numbers Customer satisfaction is a popular metric by which to gauge the success of innovation efforts. But it's not the only one.
Inc. June 2008 Jane Berentson	Editor's Letter Innovation often begins with a clever entrepreneur who manages not only to conceive a great idea but also to finance it, employ people to improve it, build a company around it - and, eventually, see it to glorious and profitable fruition.
IndustryWeek August 19, 2009 Jill Jusko	Open Innovation Tools NineSigma helps manufacturer Sealed Air grow its collaboration with external partners.
HBS Working Knowledge September 4, 2007 Lynda M. Applegate	Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage Jumpstarting innovation is a critical business imperative. Executives realize that radical change is needed but do not feel equipped to make such change.
CIO May 31, 2012 Michael Friedenberg	CIOs Need a Wakeup Call Many CIOs think they're more relevant than ever before, but their CEOs often disagree. IDG Enterprise's own CEO is calling for CIOs to figure out how to better include innovation in their job descriptions
Entrepreneur August 2007 Mark Henricks	Imagine That Greenmaker Supply Co. is a good example of how a business can keep innovating to remain competitive. Follow their lead to keep those ideas and creative juices flowing.
Entrepreneur March 2007 Chris Penttila	Big Ideas Larger companies are using innovation centers to encourage and implement new ideas. What can you learn from their tactics?
CIO March 25, 2011 Joe Eng	Make IT Innovation Everyone's Job How JetBlue's CIO instills a culture of innovation throughout his IT organization.
Pharmaceutical Executive August 1, 2011 William Looney	Innovation at Pfizer A Q and A with Kristin Peck, the drug maker's Executive Vice President, Worldwide Business Development and Innovation.
HBS Working Knowledge September 19, 2012 Carmen Nobel	Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong? Many companies are at a loss about how to fund innovation successfully. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation, Professor Josh Lerner starts with this advice: get the incentives right.
Wall Street & Technology June 16, 2006 Bob Violino	Top-Down Innovation CEOs have another - and an increasingly urgent - assignment to add to their leadership portfolios: driving innovation and tearing down barriers that may prevent it. Technology is playing a large part in new business models.
IndustryWeek November 18, 2009 Jill Jusko	Improve Your Innovation Pipeline External collaboration and improved portfolio management are among the strategies for success.
IndustryWeek October 1, 2007 Jill Jusko	Innovation Grade: Improvement Needed One would think that U.S. manufacturing firms were zeroed in on improving their innovation efforts. But, new research suggests that their efforts are struggling.
IndustryWeek April 15, 2009 Jill Jusko	Ideas Welcomed Add Campbell Soup to consumer products firms inviting innovation via the Web.
Chemistry World February 17, 2012 Ned Stafford	EU Innovation Position Slipping The growth of innovation in the EU is slowing, making it more difficult for the EU to close the gap with the global leaders for innovation.
CIO September 14, 2012 Kim S. Nash	Innovation Can Start Far From Home The needs of customers in emerging markets are far different than those of customers in the rich world. Innovations needed to meet the needs of customers in the developing world can flow uphill.
BusinessWeek April 10, 2006 Jena McGregor	Dawn Of The Idea Czar A thirst for internal growth across Corporate America has made innovation a critical management mandate. As a result, the initials "CIO" have increasingly begun to refer not to chief information officers but to yet another C-suite label, the chief innovation officer.
HBS Working Knowledge November 15, 2006 Sean Silverthorne	Lessons Not Learned About Innovation Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her research into the classic traps of innovation -- and how to avoid them.
CIO June 24, 2009 Stephanie Overby	Rapid Prototyping Provides Innovation that Fits at the New York Times The New York Times pins its future on rapid prototyping of digital products and services.
CIO February 23, 2011 Jack Bergstrand	Why New Technology Demands New Business Models You'll get the most from investments in cloud computing, mobile applications, and other emerging technology if you apply them to fresh ways of doing business.
HBS Working Knowledge July 20, 2009 Sean Silverthorne	Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation Embracing external innovators does not come naturally to most firms -- we don't have a course (yet) on this topic at HBS! But the CEO has to mandate this approach. No one organization can monopolize knowledge in any given field.
Information Today September 22, 2015	Thomson Reuters Rolls Out Website for Examining Global Innovation The website offers the annual Top 100 Global Innovators list as well as information from the "The Future Is Open: 2015 State of Innovation" report.
Bank Technology News May 2010 John Adams	MasterCard Enlists R&D Talent for the Battle From card controls to treasury management to new mobile channels, the pace of payments tech innovation is accelerating, and MasterCard has opened a new research and development lab in an attempt to make sure it doesn't fall behind the curve.
CIO March 1, 2004	The Return of Innovation Make no mistake: Despite the past three years of economic doldrums, innovation is alive and well.
CIO February 25, 2009 Diann Daniel	Guy Kawasaki on Innovation and the Myth of Lightning-Bolt Inspiration Power Twitter user, former Mac evangelist, and Alltop cofounder Guy Kawasaki knows a thing or two about innovation.
Fast Company March 2005 Ryan Underwood	Walking the Talk? Some U.S. execs make big noises about U.S. innovation -- but look overseas for new ideas.
CRM March 17, 2014 Maria Minsker	CIOs Are Pushing for More Innovation, Constellation Research Finds As CIOs embrace new responsibilities, a chief digital officer role may emerge in the c-suite.