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Resource Seyfarth Shaw: Lean by Design
May 1, 2017
An article on client-centered service design written by the law firm’s chairman.
Resource BAE Systems: Grassroots Innovation and Senior Leadership, Tying it all Together
May 1, 2017
How the aerospace and defense company bridges the gap between what senior leadership wants and how the company executes grassroots innovation.
Resource American Family Insurance: Innovation Org Design
May 1, 2017
A flow-chart of the insurance company’s innovation organization.
Resource Stryker: Customer Centered Design Principles
May 1, 2017
The medical device company’s reasoning behind customer-centered design, which it says allows teams to understand and deliver solutions to address unmet needs, hidden opportunities, and difficult problems.
Resource HCA Healthcare: Assembling & Empowering the Teams
May 1, 2017
One-page chart focused on answering the question “What’s a Win?” for various groups at the hospital operator that touch innovation.
Resource LinkedIn: 6-Thon Framework
April 28, 2017
An open framework for executing innovation and measuring success at the social networking company.
Resource Attributes of Innovators
April 28, 2017
An interesting one-page chart for assessing innovation potential in an employee or potential new hire. Submitted anonymously.
Resource Bridgestone: Innovation Platform
April 28, 2017
A slide deck describing the innovation platform and processes of the tire and auto parts manufacturer.
Resource Bayer: Life Science iHub Overview
April 28, 2017
An overview and photos of Bayer’s Life Science iHub center and team, focused on digital technologies. The iHub’s competencies include sensors, machine learning, app development, and business model innovation.
Resource Optum: Entrepreneur-in-Residence Job Description
April 28, 2017
A detailed job description for the company’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program. Optum is part UnitedHealth Group.
Resource Optum: Overview of Optum Garage
April 28, 2017
A full overview of the Optum Garage training program, which helps teams build new products, establish new businesses and expand customer value through an immersion training program. Optum is a provider of healthcare services that is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Resource The Corporate Innovation Ecosystem: Map & Discussion Guide
April 25, 2017
Illustrated map laying out the key players inside the company, and outside it, who can contribute to (or sometimes inhibit) corporate innovation. Includes discussion questions useful in laying out innovation strategy and timeframe, and defusing some of the tensions that can occur. Useful guide for a management team discussing how...
Resource RASCI Matrix: For Clarifying Roles & Building Support for Projects
April 18, 2017
A RASCI matrix is a tool that can be used to build consistent support for innovation, while mitigating against common failure modes like role ambiguity, when people aren’t sure what exactly they’re supposed to do — or want to weigh in more than you’d like. This downloadable Excel spreadsheet is...
Resource Dealing With Failure
April 13, 2017
The best organizations in the world will experience failure — they expect it. And they are ready to learn from it. Here’s some advice from Julia Austin, CTO of DigitalOcean and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, about dealing with failure.
Resource Optum: Startups and Innovation
April 5, 2017
A look at the company’s approach to working with startups, told with a humorous “pac-man”-style narrative. Optum is a healthcare services company that is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Resource Staples: Applied Innovation Overview
April 5, 2017
A structured framework of the retailer’s Applied Innovation program, guided by senior leaders.
Resource Survey Questions on Innovation Culture
April 4, 2017
Are you looking for a way to understand whether your company’s innovation culture is improving, staying the same, or getting worse? R&D and innovation executives share with us the questions they’ve used as part of quarterly or annual surveys to “take the temperature” of the organization.
Resource Reliance Industries: Innovation at Reliance
March 21, 2017
Overview of the innovation programs at the $43 billion Indian conglomerate. Includes seven innovation habits, and a slide about the company’s “innovation DNA.”
Resource Corporate Innovation Roadmap
February 28, 2017
Getting consensus to launch a new innovation initiative can require tremendous time and energy. We put together this two-page roadmap/worksheet to help you think through some of the elements you’ll need to put in place to ensure that projects make it to the finish line, and that you can build...
Resource Ties Between Innovation & Business Units
January 28, 2017
Survey data from 2017 on the relationship between innovation/R&D groups and the business units, including who supplies funding, who sets the agenda, and how well the hand-off works.