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Innovation Impact: Georgia-Pacific’s Point A Is A Member-Driven, Collaborative Innovation Club

Point A

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 […]

Innovation Impact: How Southern Company Turned An Employee Idea Challenge Into An Innovation Center

Southern Company Innovation Center

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 […]