Mary Kate Love believes that the common thread of the innovation process, from ideation to customer discovery to implementation, is forcing people “ to be a little bit uncomfortable.” Love spent most of her career at UI Labs, an innovation center based in Chicago that works with companies, universities and government entities. Because of its […]
Silicon Valley gets a lot of shine. We get it, the Valley has star power and volume. But, corporations are spread out across the country, and may not need to build up frequent flier mileage to find innovative startups. At our corporate innovation strategy group Your Ideas Are Terrible, we’ve seen example after example to make […]
Twenty-six companies headquartered in metro Atlanta are among the 2018 Fortune 1000, of which 15 are also ranked in the same year’s Fortune 500. In fiscal year 2017, these 26 companies generated aggregate revenues of $357.9 billion. We saw the business community’s power firsthand recently at the second annual Atlanta Corporate Innovation Summit, hosted by the […]
Events that involved both corporations and startups can be invigorating. Corporate employees can emerge out of their cubicles and hobnob with entrepreneurs who throw out startup buzzwords over craft beer. Unfortunately, once the sparkle settles, there are typically no tangible results from these meetings — but we can change that. Here’s a rundown of the […]
For Southern Company, innovation wasn’t a choice — the umbrella company of more than a dozen electric and natural gas utilities and energy businesses, the energy giant realized that the future of how consumers consume energy is changing, sooner rather than later. Rather than taking a “wait-and-see” approach or bringing in outside consultants less familiar […]