Resources

This Innovation Progress Report template is designed for heads of innovation or R&D to track and manage innovation programs, R&D, digital initiatives, and emerging technology projects specifically in the context of supply-chain fragility.

Self-score your function across strategy, process, culture and governance.

This Innovation Progress Report template is designed for heads of innovation or R&D to track and manage innovation programs, R&D, digital initiatives, and emerging technology projects specifically in the context of supply-chain fragility.

This Innovation Progress Report template is designed for heads of innovation and R&D to track innovation, R&D, digital initiatives, and emerging technology programs under current inflationary and macroeconomic pressures.

Stage-gate tracker for ideas moving from discovery through pilot and scale.

Track every initiative across horizons, risk and expected value in one roll-up view.

Monitor active pilots: owner, success criteria, spend, status and next decision.

Weighted scoring model for comparing startups on fit, traction, team and risk.

Log interviews, signals and validated insights across discovery efforts.

Side-by-side benchmark of peer R&D spend, labs, partnerships and launches.

Plan and track program, pilot and venture spend against annual budget.

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.

Track CVC investments, stage, ownership, strategic rationale and follow-ons.

This spreadsheet, created with input from a group of a dozen corporate innovators at a recent event, encourages you to focus in on the areas of measurement that matter most to your executive sponsors, and will help you assign a score to each of those areas. The spreadsheet also gives you a single, unified score in the 0-10 range that you can track over time to show how you’re moving the needle. 

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.

Input, process and outcome KPIs with targets and quarterly trend views.

Revenue, cost and NPV model to support an innovation business case.

How do you create measurements to gauge innovation progress? Answering that question was a key focus of a 2021 report. This resource presents the data from that report in a series of visualizations that you can sort by industry.

Created by Ravi Kanniganti of Target Corp. to accompany an article on metrics, this PDF lays out ways to track the health of an innovation portfolio; pilot tests run with startups; intrapreneurial projects; and more. 

What metrics matter most right now? On a recent videoconference, InnoLead members shared a few…

A succinct one-page guide to creating metrics for various aspects of a corporate innovation program, from process to people to customer development to decision-making.

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.

This offers a complete system for logging, screening, classifying, and scoring ideas that an innovation group might devote resources to. Developed by Aaron Proietti, former SVP of Innovation at Transamerica, it’s an Excel spreadsheet that can be easily adapted for your own use.

Presentation from Front End of Innovation 2015 covering some of the ways companies do (and should) track innovation — and where metrics are headed.

How the California-based insurer CSAA measures its innovation efforts, including a scorecard, key drivers, and a maturity model.

Short PowerPoint presentation that covers Owens Corning’s market intelligence and brainstorming tool; capabilities mapping; measuring the return on innovation; and the company’s various awards for innovative and high-performing teams.

A single slide that covers the online media company’s framework for Key Performance Indicators in taking ideas from concept to market.

Scorecard for ideas proposed as part of Adobe’s internal Kickbox Innovation Workshops. Considers factors like customer value, company fit, and risk level. Good, clear definitions of things like “addressable market size” and “fit with brand.”

A visual representation of Whirlpool’s now-famous dashboard (from 2013), which provides a snapshot view of initiatives, projected revenue, pipeline, and more.

Explanation of Dell EMC’s international idea contest and innovation pipeline. Includes their roadmap, “incubation readiness levels,” ROI metrics, and more.

Very simple and innovative (can we say that?) rating system for scoring elements of the innovation program at Wisconsin-based Trek Bicycle. Uses simple red, yellow and green for ten key questions.