Chronicling Corporate Innovation is Product Management

Scott Kirsner, Columnist for The Boston Globe and Founder of Innovation Leader, shares the latest strategies in corporate innovation and how leaders can enable employees to be more entrepreneurial.

Highlights

  • What are the most common strategies for corporate innovation? (7:02)
  • What are some of the best case studies on corporate innovation? (13:20)
  • What advice would Scott give for an executive that has just taken on a mandate for corporate innovation? (22:56)
  • What does Scott think the Fortune 500 will look like in the next quarter century? (25:18)

Scott Kirsner

Columnist for The Boston Globe and Founder of Innovation Leader

What Scott is Reading

Midnights: A Year with the Wellfleet Police by Alec Wilkinson
The Three-Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation by Vijay Govindarajan

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