Resources

This 2024 “Innovation Day” presentation focuses on Minerals Technologies Inc., a $2.2 billion specialty minerals company, and how its technologies and product lines drive growth.

Overview of a mobility innovation contest was by Ford in collaboration with the City of Austin to crowdsource innovative solutions that improve mobility — especially access to health services, food, education, and essential amenities.

The construction and engineering firm Black & Veatch launched an internal tournament in 2023 to spur employees to explore potential ways they might employ generative AI. This slightly-genericized PowerPoint deck provides and overview of the tournament’s objectives; rules; and judging process.

Run-of-show, judging criteria and comms templates for internal challenges.

Hackathon overview, definition, and agenda, from a technology solutions company.

These slides were presented as part of an April 2018 webcast on sourcing, piloting, and scaling new ideas that is also available on InnoLead. You can register for upcoming InnoLead live calls here.

A slide deck template for participants in Boeing’s Innovation Day competition.

A guide to Harris Computer’s “Innovator’s Voice Competition,” which enables individuals and teams to spend some of their time innovating and creating new, novel products and services for customers. Harris develops mission critical software applications for the public sector, healthcare, utilities and private sector verticals.

A document outlining NRG’s idea challenge, called Idea Dash, including a 10-week timeline, key activities, and idea submission form.

Overview of how the Spanish bank runs its “Open Talent” competition for startups focused on the financial services industry, which generated 653 applications in 2015.

A guide to the insurance company’s 90-minute brainstorming session, including rules and exercises.

Overview of the new Lab of Forward Thinking (LOFT) at the insurance firm Manulife/John Hancock, and agenda for the group’s launch event and employee hackathon.

Overview of the innovation workshop program at Tokyo-based NTT Data, an IT services firm with 76,000 employees. Includes slides on the benefits of running workshops.

An overview of the IT services firm’s innovation contest process, including timelines, judging criteria, and challenges.

A map of the company’s process for running internal idea crowdsourcing challenges. Autoliv is a publicly-held Swedish company that supplies safety systems and components to automakers.

Booklet that includes an agenda from Catalyst, a day-long innovation event held at Intuit; an overview of the innovation mechanisms in place at the company, like 10 percent unstructured time and idea jams; and a section on tools and methods like “customer safaris,” storyboarding, and empathy maps.

The agenda for the educational publishing company’s “Demo Days,” which highlights pitches from startups and how they propose to work within Pearson.

Slide deck from a fun internal Nike event called “Attack from Left Field,” which includes disruption exercises for a number of the company’s industries as well as an agenda. Key question: “Could a competitor attack from left field and take ownership of the athlete in the future?”

The agenda for a one-and-a-half day innovation workshop at the medical device maker, including sessions on journey mapping, problem statements, and concept refinements.

Detailed agenda from Marriott’s week-long “Innovation Days” program, held at headquarters. Includes day-by-day sessions, descriptions, and more. The theme: “Advancing the INNOVATION Blueprint and Unlocking the Future.”

A look inside Xerox’s “dreaming sessions,” which bring together R&D staffers and customers. Includes full agenda and five preparation questions to maximize the value of the sessions.

Sample agenda of an “innovation day,” include session descriptions and and details on the Boston-based hospital’s Idea Lab.

The two-day innovation workshop agenda at MMC, the global professional services firm. Includes objectives, desired outcomes, assignments, and complete agenda.

Quick two-page agenda and list of innovations featured in a 2014 Innovator’s Showcase at the hospital.

Guiding principles of the financial services firm’s Real Estate Innovation Forum.

A review of the Boston-based hospital’s experience with an employee hackathon, raising questions of metrics and “what’s next?”