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Research Report Creating New Value in Large Organizations
September 27, 2024
This 62-page research deck explores what it takes to effectively and consistently create value inside an established organization. It includes quantitative data from 2024, and interviews with senior leaders at Microsoft, CarMax, Travelers, and more.
Research Report The Future of the Innovation Team
July 11, 2024
This 42-page research deck focuses on new dynamics confronting innovation teams in 2024 — including budget, team size, and metrics. It includes interviews with senior leaders at organizations such as UPS, Visa, Airbus, and NRG Energy.
Research Report Innovation Software: The Start of the Gen AI Era
March 21, 2024
Major changes are rippling through the innovation software landscape in 2024, with industry consolidation among established players and the continued explosion of new generative AI tools and platforms. This new report explores what's happening in 2024, leveraging exclusive survey data.
Research Report How AI is Influencing Corporate Innovation Priorities in 2024
February 9, 2024
As AI becomes a top priority in many companies, how is that impacting innovation work? This report collects fresh data, along with interviews with corporate leaders about how their work is changing; how they are exploring or using new AI tools; and their advice for others.
Research Report Driving Growth Through New Ventures and Corporate VC
January 10, 2024
For this research project, more than 25 corporations in the US and EU spoke to InnoLead or completed our survey to share their advice — and the challenges they face — related to new venture creation and corporate venture capital initiatives.
Research Report Getting More from Corporate-University Partnerships
November 13, 2023
In today’s fast-paced world, the synergy between universities and corporations can play a powerful role in driving meaningful technological and business advancements. Universities can bring new ideas and approaches to the practical problems of industry, and industry can provide faculty and students with learning opportunities they simply can’t get in...
Research Report Smarter Scouting: Best Practices
September 25, 2023
How are large companies doing the work of scouting in 2023? What's their advice about getting the right resources — and building the right relationships so you can take advantage of what you find? This new InnoLead research inititiave provides input from your peers on those questions.
Research Report Benchmarking Innovation in Consumer Packaged Goods
September 12, 2023
In Q3 2023, we interviewed leaders at global consumer packaged goods companies to understand the state of innovation in their organizations. We were specifically interested in the extent to which they pursue organic venture building and capability / business model innovation, in addition to their standard commitments to line extensions,...
Research Report Building a Productive Innovation Portfolio
July 10, 2023
As part of our most recent research, we fielded questions about innovation processes, methodologies, tools, and metrics. Here is a sneak peek of the results...
Research Report 2023 Compensation Survey
March 7, 2023
How much should you be earning? How much are your peers earning? How should you determine compensation packages for new members of your team? This compensation survey dives into those questions, and a number of others, to help you compare your earnings — both salary and bonus — to others...
Research Report Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2023
February 6, 2023
Get InnoLead's definitive report on innovation inside big organizations, with survey data, interviews, and advice from your peers related to innovation budgets, teams, reporting structure, activities, and more.
Research Report Successful Startup Engagement and Corporate Venture Capital
December 6, 2022
We surveyed 146 corporate leaders about their strategies for startup engagement and corporate venture capital in 2022. One thing is clear: activity is increasing for corporations. See the report for data insights and interviews from leaders at Coca-Cola, TDK Ventures, Johnson & Johnson, and more.
Research Report Best Practices: Slides from Top R&D and Innovation Leaders
October 27, 2022
We collected best practices slides about innovation and R&D from leaders at companies like Johnson & Johnson, 3M, PACCAR, Crown Equipment Corporation, and more to help you understand how others approach the challenges of innovation and R&D. This report was sponsored by PatSnap.
Research Report Shaping Your Strategy for Web3 and the Metaverse
August 8, 2022
What should your company be doing to explore, experiment, and roll out offerings tied to Web3 and the metaverse? That’s the central question we sought to answer with this report, published in August 2022. We relied on qualitative interviews, a survey with 265 respondents, and a collection of case studies of...
Research Report Retooling R&D for a New Era
January 19, 2022
Amidst stressful and unpredictable business and societal conditions related to the on-going COVID-19 pandemic, R&D organizations are feeling new pressures. They are trying to fill gaps on their team in a tight talent market; solve problems with essential company operations while also building for the future; bring on new vendors...
Research Report Delivering Value Through Emerging Tech & Innovation
December 7, 2021
The emerging tech landscape is perenially noisy — and overhyped. Companies first need to develop a clear set of problems they are trying to solve, or experiences they are trying to create, for internal or external customers. This report collects advice from 200-plus corporate professionals, along with senior leaders at...
Research Report The Changing Landscape of Corporate-Startup Engagement
September 9, 2021
How are the interactions between Global 1000 companies and startups changing? How do large organizations build the case for greater involvement in the startup ecosystem? What resources do they put in place? To answer those questions, and others, we conducted a survey in Q3 2021 whose respondents included both leaders in...
Research Report Design as a Competitive Advantage
June 18, 2021
This series of interviews, surveys, and case studies explores ways that organizations like PayPal, Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, and Campbell’s Soup are leveraging design as a competitive advantage.
Research Report The New Imperatives: Innovation, Agility & Openness
June 7, 2021
For some, the period between March 2020 and March 2021 may have been a time in which innovation accelerated. But for other companies, spending a year or more in “fast twitch” responsive mode, versus planning for future growth, may have created an innovation deficit. Get data about how 250+ of...
Research Report Developing Innovation Metrics & Reports That Really Matter
March 10, 2021
To shed light on how large companies are creating metrics and reporting approaches that work well, we surveyed 196 professionals in large organizations in the first quarter of 2021.

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