Tools, decks, frameworks, models, and reports you can use.
How do you effectively communicate innovations to an employee base that spans 170,000 employees in 65 countries around the world? At Boeing, the answer lies in an internal innovation newsletter called “Innovation Quarterly.”
Highlights from a February 2025 InnoLead members’ meeting on career paths, featuring veterans of Clorox, Fidelity Investments, Allstate, Whirlpool, HSBC, PA Consulting, and GM.
Eighteen helpful resources to keep you on the cutting edge of generative AI developments, recommended by other members of the InnoLead community.
Notes from a January 2024 InnoLead Executive Group meeting, featuring guest speaker Richard Entrup, a KPMG Managing Director. The meeting covered four topics: Generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain, and the metaverse.
Created inside publicly-traded companies, this PowerPoint deck lays out various options for setting up innovation organizations; defining roles; creating processes and pipelines for moving projects forward; and measuring outcomes.
Five-page PowerPoint document created to help an innovation group define roles related to design, including UX (user experience), and assess the skill sets of individuals.
What tactics do corporate innovators feel create and support a culture of innovation? We asked that question in a recent survey, and here’s the data, sortable by industry.
Overview of trends and digital transformation strategy at the $33.5 billion energy company — as well as the challenges of pursuing innovation in the nuclear power industry.
The Design Sprint framework is a problem-solving methodology used to identify, understand, and validate business opportunities. Download this short presentation on Home Depot practices design thinking.
A presentation that reviews the company’s cultural values and behaviors as discovered at a recent “DevDiv” (Developer Division) event.
How the aerospace and defense company bridges the gap between what senior leadership wants and how the company executes grassroots innovation.
A flow-chart of the insurance company’s innovation organization.
One-page chart focused on answering the question “What’s a Win?” for various groups at the hospital operator that touch innovation.
An interesting one-page chart for assessing innovation potential in an employee or potential new hire. Submitted anonymously.
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.
48-page slide deck covering the seven elements of innovation; the innovation process at 3M; and strategy and areas of interest at 3M’s Corporate Research Materials Laboratory. From 2010.
Overview of the innovation program at the British telecommunications company, with a special focus on how they created a global network of innovation champions; the impact so far; and best practices in setting up a similar champion network. Includes a chart summarizing comments from the employees who have participated.
How the open innovation team at Sherwin-Williams, the paint and coatings giant, scouts new technologies in academia and the startup world; evaluates promising technologies; and forges partnerships.
Overview of the challenges facing the $3 billion Indian telecom firm, and the “Shape the Future” program that Tata runs to solicit and cultivate employee ideas. Program includes an “immersion week” in Silicon Valley.
A one-page outlining the competencies required for innovation — including technical knowledge, disciplined execution, and others. From the Delaware-based materials company W.L. Gore & Associates.
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