Tools, decks, frameworks, models, and reports you can use.
If corporate innovation can sometimes feel like a game, it’s one set to hard mode. Success requires relationship-building, resource-gathering, and constant learning to make it past the traps and pitfalls you’ll inevitably encounter. Download the large-format discussion document…
Ten key pieces of advice from a December 2024 InnoLead members’ meeting on “Sustainability, Social Impact + Innovation: Delivering Results,” with Jennifer Gootman, Global Head of Sustainability and ESG Strategy at the luxury lifestyle brand Tory Burch.
This short slide deck summarizes an August 2024 discussion about the new ISO 56000 set of standards for innovation management.
Slides from a June 2024 LinkedIn Live discussion about the top 10 priorities for corporate innovators and changemakers, with representatives of InnoLead, Innosabi, Peer Insight, and Territory.
Highlights and audio from a May 2024 InnoLead members’ meeting on the future of consulting in the innovation arena, featuring veterans Dan Ostrower, John Edson, and Abby Godee.
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.
Notes from a January 2024 InnoLead members’ meeting on innovation in pharma. Includes data from surveys conducted during the meeting.
No one would deny there’s a lot happening in the world of startups. But how can large companies tap into it, in a way that aligns with their objectives and creates real value? In this large-format illustration, we’ve laid out seven of the most common approaches to plugging in to the startup ecosystem — along with the key questions to ask about each.
Here’s our list of 65+ small innovation consulting practices that do everything from facilitate design sprints to train innovation catalysts to assess innovation maturity. They have experience working at firms like UnitedHealthCare, Clorox, Nike, the Gap, Transmerica, Starbucks, Merck, Pepsico, Lululemon, and Pfizer. And they’re based in the US, Australia, Canada, Germany, Singapore, the Netherlands, […]
Short PowerPoint deck collecting graphics related to determining what job the organization expects innovators to do, and how they can get aligned with overarching strategy.
This PowerPoint deck, created by a former Director of Innovation in the aerospace industry, argues that scenario planning is crucial right now, and presents a simple approach to it.
This downloadable Word document assumes that your senior executive team’s innovation priorities may be shifting. It lays out two pathways for addressing that: Capitalize & Grow, or Protect & Defend.
A bit hard to follow without notes or a presenter, but covers the ART process (Audience, Reframe, Translate) and getting to a real understanding of customer problems.
In this one-page guide, former Pfizer Head of Worldwide Innovation Dan Seewald details three stages of collective problem solving with colleagues in the regulatory and compliance departments.
How much urgency is there surrounding innovation in your organization? You may not win fabulous prizes playing the game we call “Urgency Bingo,” but it can help you understand some of the dynamics at play when it comes to getting sufficient resources, allies, and momentum behind an innovation effort. It can be useful when you’re […]
Here’s Innovation Leader’s look at how you can design an effective “Mission Control” for your innovation work, along with questions to discuss with your team and senior leadership.
What do the different groups think when the CEO announces the company will be more innovative? This resource can help different groups understand a definition of innovation which is accessible.
The goal of this editable worksheet is to help you think through some of the key questions, participants, risks, and indicators of success when you are setting up or seeking to improve a scouting operation. This worksheet is a component of our 2017 research report, “Scouting Trends & Emerging Tech,” available in the Reports area […]
Survey data from 2017 on how large organizations structure their scouting activities, and some of the challenges they encounter. These slides were presented as part of a February 2018 webcast on scouting that is also available on InnoLead.
Building a successful and enduring innovation program requires that you identify the barriers that may inhibit progress — ideally, before you smash into them at full speed. Working to predict and mitigate the key barriers can make the business more accepting of new ideas. Below are eleven of the most common barriers we’ve seen in […]
From the Fall 2017 issue of InnoLead’s magazine, this one-pager captures the different kinds of CEO personalities when it comes to innovation, including the Visionary, the Cheerleader, and the Advocate.
Here is a maturity model showing choices, activities, and risks to consider, based on InnoLead research and interviews with executives at Global 1000 companies.
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.
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 launches that require innovative thinking.
We partnered with XPLANE, the renowned “visual thinking” firm, to create a map of the corporate innovation ecosystem, along with discussion questions.
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.
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 your team, momentum, and reputation […]
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.
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 survey data about average maturity […]
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