2021 Innovation Issue: Tumultuous year jolts diversity efforts into overdrive
Shaken by protests and social unrest in cities across the country in 2020, employers in particular ramped up diversity commitments within their organizations.
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2021 Innovation Issue: ‘This is the most traction I’ve ever seen’
Tamara Cypress—of Black Onyx Management, Indy Black Businesses Matter and Indy Accomplice—discussed with IBJ the progress that’s been made on equity and inclusion problems and the challenges that still exist.
Indiana life science players have adapted to pandemic, panelists say
Speakers at the IBJ Life Sciences Power Panel on Friday said their organizations have largely weathered the lockdown—raising records funds, taking on huge expansions, hiring new employees and reporting higher productivity.
2020 Innovation Issue: Consultant uses improv to help foster teamwork
ActUp Consulting founder’s classes focus on principles of improvisational theater—celebrating failure, adapting to the moment, and making your fellow performers look good.
2020 Innovation Issue: Catalyst firm breaks ground with transportation-technology projects
Most people have never heard of Energy Systems Network. But they probably either know of or have been affected by one or more of the not-for-profit’s forward-thinking projects.
2020 Innovation Issue: Brothers share a knack for creating life sciences companies
Philip and Martin Low’s latest venture, Eradivir, was incorporated in February to develop a treatment that would fight the influenza virus, but COVID-19 prompted a tweak to the business plan.
2020 Innovation Issue: Mame Keita on why allowing implicit bias to fester undermines a business
There are numerous practical reasons to not ignore implicit bias. The first is employee disengagement.
2020 Innovation Issue: Mark Caswell on using design thinking to build the culture you want
In short, design thinking helps us to keep seeking what is right and true, rather than holding onto what we already thought to be perfected.
2020 Innovation Issue: How to be innovative at a big company
We checked in with three seasoned innovation leaders about how they’ve helped spur fresh thinking and new product development at large, established enterprises.
2020 Innovation Issue: Bias is often baked into research, development
For companies that pursue technological advances and innovative solutions, bias can have an enduring impact, making it easy for the cycle to be perpetuated.
2020 Innovation Issue: Pushing hard for a COVID-19 vaccine
Around the world, more than 80 vaccine projects are under development by pharmaceutical companies and university research laboratories.
2020 Innovation Issue: Regenstrief’s half century of health innovations
The not-for-profit and its health research are a testament to the idea that all innovation is related—even when the connection appears tenuous at first glance.
2020 Innovation Issue: A Q&A with design thinker Christopher Vice
Innovation means not just exploring new frontiers but also solving problems while doing so. And Christopher Vice, now at Studio Science, has a resume that reflects a career doing just that.
2020 Innovation Issue: Design thinking puts users at center of development
Design thinking has been around since at least the 1960s, and initially, its focus was in areas such as architecture, graphic design and industrial design, to produce physical products. But today, design thinking is used nearly everywhere. You can try it, too.
2020 Innovation Issue: Try these exercises to open up your perspective
Design thinking requires participants to communicate freely, open their minds to new ideas and look at problems in new ways. Here are some exercises to help.
2020 Innovation Issue: How the experts do it
Design thinking is generally described as a five-step process, with specific names for each step. But in reality, the people and companies that use design thinking adapt their own take on it, by combining or breaking out some of the steps or using a more conceptual approach.
2020 Innovation Issue: Breaking down design thinking
Examine the goal of each step in the design thinking process, plus one way to execute that step.
IBJ, staff win 12 awards in SPJ contest, including first place honors for AI coverage
The Indiana Lawyer, which is also published by IBJ Media, won six awards, including first place honors in six categories.
IBJ Podcast: Exploring artificial intelligence, learning from failure and more in our Innovation Issue
In this week’s podcast, IBJ Managing Editor Lesley Weidenbener and technology reporter Anthony Schoettle discuss why IBJ publishes an Innovation Issue, how the paper settled on artificial intelligence as this year’s theme and what else is in the edition.
Non-tech firms hike innovation strategies
A growing number of Indiana corporations are formalizing in-house innovation, an effort aimed at remaining technologically relevant in a fast-changing business landscape.