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A tour of Starbucks' new innovation lab reveals a new approach to change.
- Starbucks quietly opened a new innovation lab in its Seattle headquarters in November.
- Projects based in the Tryer Center are intended to go from idea to action in 100 days, with Starbucks churning through more than 130 projects so far.
- Read on for a look inside the lab.
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A tour of Starbucks' new innovation lab reveals a new approach to change that has taken root at the coffee giant.
This week, Starbucks released a video of CEO Kevin Johnson giving a tour of the Tryer Center, the innovation lab that the company quietly opened in November on the ground floor of its Seattle headquarters. Since then, the company has churned out more than 130 projects from the lab, with dozens making their way into stores.
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"Scale and complexity can be the enemy of speed," Johnson said in a post about the Tryer Center on Starbucks' website. "We realized two years ago we had to change the way we work in order to be more agile."
Here's a look inside Starbucks' new innovation lab.