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Graybar: Shifting the Mindset from Incremental to Breakthrough Innovation

IdeaScale Nation

English - December 17, 2020 16:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings
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Graybar is a Fortune 500 corporation and one of the largest employee-owned companies in North America. They are a leader in the distribution of high quality communications and data networking products and the company is over 150 years old. Many companies that have been around for that long struggle to keep up, but Graybar has always reinvented itself and that’s where their dedicated innovation lab comes. In this podcast interview, Todd Hart, Director of Graybar's Innovation Lab talks about incremental vs. breakthrough innovation, the role of their innovation council, and the collaborative environment that breeds change.