All IL Resources - Page 4

Resource Idea Evaluation Scorecard
August 23, 2017
This offers a complete system for logging, screening, classifying, and scoring ideas that an innovation group might devote resources to. Developed by Aaron Proietti, former SVP of Innovation at Transamerica, it’s an Excel spreadsheet that can be easily adapted for your own use.
Resource Innovation Maturity Guide: Five Stages of Innovation Evolution
August 15, 2017
What does progress look like when you’re the team tasked with doing the new stuff? It’s a question that comes up at most of our in-person gatherings. What are the characteristics of each stage of innovation, the things you ought to be focusing on, and the risks that you may...
Resource Six Types of Innovation Lab & the Pros and Cons
June 22, 2017
This one-page PDF lays out the six primary types of innovation labs we’ve seen, as well as the pros and cons of each and examples of companies that have launched them.
Resource Making the Case for Innovation
May 17, 2017
Annotated presentation to help you define the vision for innovation; create a financial justification for investment; detail the benefits; discuss the competitive landscape; set up success milestones; and more. Developed for InnoLead by Aaron Proietti, former SVP/Innovation at Transamerica.
Resource Sample Monthly Progress Report
May 16, 2017
This "straw man" report is designed to provide holistic, near-continuous feedback to stakeholders so that the organization can ensure that the best innovation investment decisions are being made. You can use this template to fit various types of work, from experiments to bigger projects to cultural work to business unit-specific...
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 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 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.
Resource The Innovation Imperative
January 17, 2017
Ideal for someone just getting started in an innovation role, making the case for sufficient resources, or working to get a program off the ground. This presentation collects some of the best advice we’ve heard on getting an initiative going; some of the choices that you’ll face; some of our...
Resource 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report
January 16, 2017
Highlights from our 2015 Benchmarking Report, produced in collaboration with Innosight. Includes data on program focus, maturity stage, team size, tools being used, why projects get killed, and more.
Resource Best & Worst Practices in Measuring Innovation
January 16, 2017
Presentation from Front End of Innovation 2015 covering some of the ways companies do (and should) track innovation — and where metrics are headed.
Resource Getting Connected Products Right
January 16, 2017
Highlights from our 2016 Connected Products Survey, emphasizing investment levels, challenges, and success factors. Produced in collaboration with Altitude.
Resource Lean Startup in Large Organizations
June 28, 2016
Overview of the results from our May 2016 survey on how the lean startup methodology is being used in large companies, including benefits and challenges; software being used and training programs being run; key allies and supporters to cultivate; and general advice.
Resource Innovation Approaches
January 23, 2015
Collected from 15+ innovation execs in early 2015, this captures what innovation leaders are doing when they are setting strategy; trying to change company culture; building capabilities for cultivating and testing new ideas; and investing in promising startups.