Resources

2025 PDF on the PepsiCo Labs model for delivering End-to-End Program Pilots.

This 15-slide PowerPoint deck offers an overview of the venture incubator’s reason for existence; its areas of focus; and some of the projects it worked on during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

From the description: “. In this role, you will join a highly innovative and entrepreneurial group with a focus on accelerating AI Use Cases in the US. With a deep expertise in AI, large language models (LLM), and natural language processing (NLP) you will help shape our AI Innovation Strategy and lead the experimentation of innovative AI-driven products and services aligned to Novartis US objectives.”

From the description: “This position will play a critical role in unlocking the next chapter of transformational growth for this over $60-billion-dollar global tech company.”

Our latest PDF download offers help defining innovation spaces; understanding the pros and cons of virtual and physical spaces; and gives experts’ advice about setting up an innovation space.

In February 2022, we convened an InnoLead members’ meeting on Zoom to talk about how companies were using their physical innovation spaces, or experimenting with virtual ones.

This comic book lays out how augmented reality may be used in the workplace — both on tablets and on glasses. Shows how future visions can be communicated, outside the realm of PowerPoint.

An innovation hub is a distinct environment strategically designed and actively nurtured to promote a way of working that is fundamentally different from an organization’s norm. (Some call them labs, centers, accelerators, or incubators.) But not all innovation hubs are created equal. InnoLead and Gensler, the design and architecture firm, teamed up to create an illustrated guide to innovation hubs — the good and the bad. 

Slide deck outlining the growth accelerator at Black & Veatch, a $3.2 billion engineering firm based in Kansas City, Mo. The accelerator “works both outside our core business and with our core businesses. In either case, we seek to discover new opportunities for clients and the global communities in which we work.” Offers info on innovation challenges, bootcamp, […]

Presentation given by Pano Anthos of XRC Labs at Impact 2018 on the right and wrong ways for corporates to engage with accelerator programs. Includes a slide outlining the signs or hallmarks that a corporate culture has set up the proper structure for working with startup companies.

A spreadsheet describing 25 startup accelerators either run by corporations or with substantial corporate involvement, across industries like aerospace, retail, and tech. Includes a shorter list of corporate accelerators that are defunct or on hiatus.

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.

Short overview of BNY Mellon’s network of innovation centers, their approach, and focus.

An overview and photos of Bayer’s Life Science iHub center and team, focused on digital technologies. The iHub’s competencies include sensors, machine learning, app development, and business model innovation.

How Honda’s Silicon Valley Lab is engaging with startups, including providing test vehicles, funding, mentorship, and collaborative workspace.

A graphical overview of an anonymous company’s innovation lab efforts, including an “Innovation Ambition Matrix” and models of corporate entrepreneurship.

Short overview of the innovation lab at Hearst Health, including its mission and some of the methodologies it uses to develop new offerings.

Presentation focuses on how Intel Labs is seeking to create technology that is relevant to society by working with four outside constituencies: government, academia, citizens, and other companies. Includes slide on how company works toward making innovation “predictable, probable and profitable,” rather than occasional and project-based.

Outlines the tax giant’s search for an entrepreneur to lead its Americas Tax Services Incubator.

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.

A framework for fostering productive discussions in order to make prototyping and project decisions. Includes a ranking system designed to “take groupthink out of the system.”

Two-page overview of the Cambia Grove, a collaborative space that insurer Cambia Health Solutions is opening in Seattle in 2015 with a vision to “catalyze the development of a vibrant local health care innovation cluster.”

Short presentation from December 2014 about the team behind Eastern Bank’s new Eastern Labs initiative, and what they’re focusing on. Eastern is the oldest and largest mutually-owned bank in the US.

Written like a press release, this quick one-pager explains the goals and results of the bank’s second Accelerator Lab, an internal idea challenge.

This 14-page overview describes 7-Eleven’s “pragmatic approach” to creating new revenue-generating partners, channels, and apps. Covers objectives and their business-driven approach.

Nice overview of the innovation methodology in place at the Hearst Health Innovation Lab, with examples of committee reports, challenges, lessons and more. Includes sample pitches. Hearst Health is part of the global media company Hearst.

Discusses some of the advantages of an in-house incubator, including the ability to rapidly create and test novel software solutions.

One-page visual representation of IBM’s Mobile Innovation Lab, with a focus on the processes of Discover, Select, Plan and Build.