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Corporate Purchasing and Adoption of AI Tools in 2025

This research report dives into enterprise AI adoption trends, detailing how corporate leaders evaluate tools, allocate budgets, navigate purchasing hurdles, and select vendors based on a survey of nearly 100 executives.

Sep 22, 2025
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Making Innovation an Enduring Capability

This research report dives into the strategies large companies use to transform innovation into an enduring, high-impact capability rather than a short-lived annual initiative.

Colin Nelson · Jan 6, 2025
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Creating New Value in Large Organizations

This research report covers how established organizations benchmark their value creation strategies, navigate evolving C-suite roles, and leverage insights from leaders at companies such as CarMax, Ralph Lauren, and Microsoft.

Brian Miske · Sep 27, 2024
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The Future of the Innovation Team

This research report covers emerging trends in corporate innovation management, drawing on survey data and executive interviews to detail changing team budgets, performance metrics, AI adoption, and strategic pressures.

Sara Husk · Jul 11, 2024
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Innovation Software: The Start of the Gen AI Era

This research report covers corporate survey data on innovation management software, highlighting generative AI adoption, tool satisfaction compared to mainstream software, purchasing barriers, and funding strategies.

Mar 21, 2024
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Driving Growth Through New Ventures and Corporate VC

This research report investigates how over 25 major companies structure, resource, and execute corporate venture capital and venture building initiatives to identify new growth drivers and mitigate innovation risks.

Jan 10, 2024
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Getting More from Corporate-University Partnerships

This research report investigates how corporate leaders build effective academic partnerships, offering practical advice on managing cultural differences, setting expectations, and improving communication based on insights from over 100 organizations.

Nov 13, 2023
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Smarter Scouting: Best Practices

This research report covers emerging practices in corporate technology scouting, detailing how enterprise teams target AI solutions and cultivate internal relationships with business units to ensure successful implementation.

Sep 25, 2023
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Benchmarking Innovation in Consumer Packaged Goods

This research report investigates how ten global CPG companies structure innovation, measure progress, build new ventures, and integrate Generative AI beyond standard brand line extensions.

Sep 12, 2023
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Building a Productive Innovation Portfolio

This research report explores how corporate strategy leaders maximize innovation returns, featuring survey data from 75 practitioners and executive interviews on overcoming organizational obstacles to deliver concrete business outcomes.

Jul 10, 2023
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2023 Compensation Survey

This research report covers global salary and bonus benchmarks for corporate innovation, strategy, and digital leaders, featuring comparative data from 2019 to help executives evaluate competitive compensation packages.

Mar 7, 2023
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Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2023

This research report covers corporate innovation team structures, budgets, metrics, and key enablers based on survey data and executive interviews to help organizations drive quantifiable business impact.

Mike DiClaudio · Feb 6, 2023
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Best Practices: Slides from Top R&D and Innovation Leaders

This research report covers presentation slides from veteran R&D leaders detailing practical frameworks for managing innovation pipelines, scouting technologies, driving corporate transformation, and overcoming internal organizational resistance.

Oct 27, 2022
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Shaping Your Strategy for Web3 and the Metaverse

This research report covers enterprise Web3 and metaverse adoption, using 20 corporate case studies, survey data from 265 respondents, and executive interviews to help companies build and test new offerings.

Aug 8, 2022
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Retooling R&D for a New Era

This research report investigates how Global 1000 R&D teams navigate talent shortages, customer isolation, and resource constraints while balancing immediate operational fixes with long-term innovation strategy.

Jan 19, 2022
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Delivering Value Through Emerging Tech & Innovation

This research report covers practical strategies from over 200 corporate leaders on evaluating emerging technologies to solve specific business problems, improve customer experiences, and drive measurable growth.

Dec 7, 2021
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The Changing Landscape of Corporate-Startup Engagement

This research report explores how Global 1000 companies build startup partnerships, detailing the resources allocated, common pilot and scaling roadblocks, and insights gathered from corporate leaders and entrepreneurs.

Sep 9, 2021
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Design as a Competitive Advantage

This research report investigates how organizations can integrate design earlier into product development, improve cross-functional collaboration, and leverage customer insights to create distinct market value.

Kaitlin Milliken · Jun 18, 2021
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The New Imperatives: Innovation, Agility & Openness

This research report covers survey data and executive interviews on how large companies are balancing short-term operational challenges with long-term growth strategies following pandemic-related disruptions.

Jun 7, 2021
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Digitizing the Innovation Team

This research report covers how corporate innovation and R&D leaders adopt digital tools, evaluating survey data on software ROI, implementation challenges, and best practices for remote collaboration.

Aug 21, 2020
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CxOs & Innovation

This research report investigates how corporate innovation roles are evolving to prioritize clear revenue generation, cost reduction, and brand value to ensure program survival.

Aug 10, 2020
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The Changing Role of the Innovation Leader

This research report covers how shifting corporate priorities are reshaping innovation roles, forcing leaders to demonstrate concrete returns through revenue generation, cost reduction, or brand elevation.

Jun 16, 2020
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What the Future Looks Like

This research report explores how corporate innovators and futurists predict post-pandemic shifts, highlighting permanent operational changes and updated organizational approaches to long-term scenario planning.

Jun 10, 2020
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State of Innovation 2020

This research report dives into how corporate innovation teams navigated early COVID-19 challenges, from budget cuts and hiring freezes to virtual work and shifting focus toward core business support.

May 11, 2020
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Changing Culture in Large Organizations

This research report covers insights from 270 corporate leaders on building agile cultures that foster innovation, offering data, case studies, and actionable guidance for large organizations.

Mar 30, 2020
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Quick Wins: Data and Case Studies on Delivering Results Fast

This research report investigates how corporate innovation leaders deliver fast-tracked projects, analyzing survey data and enterprise case studies on execution timeframes, risk management, metrics, and internal communication strategies.

Dec 11, 2019
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Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2020

This research report dives into data and insights from over 200 corporate leaders, contrasting standard innovation practices against high-performing role model companies to help executives drive tangible business impact.

Sep 16, 2019
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Co-Creation & Ecosystem Development

This research report investigates how corporate leaders build external partnerships, drawing on data from 257 innovation professionals to highlight the value, key players, and best practices of ecosystem strategies.

Apr 11, 2019
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Innovation & Risk

This research report investigates how corporate innovation teams effectively collaborate with legal, compliance, and security departments to manage risk, drawing on survey data from 150 leaders and enterprise case studies.

Apr 3, 2019
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Blueprints for Corporate Innovators

This research report covers practical tools, templates, and expert advice designed to help corporate innovation, strategy, and R&D leaders build, manage, and scale their internal programs.

Aug 16, 2018
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Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018

This research report investigates how over 270 global companies manage innovation funding, staffing, and performance metrics while balancing incremental improvements against transformational growth.

Jun 12, 2018
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Healthcare Innovation from the Leading Edge

This research report covers how major healthcare organizations overcome bureaucratic barriers, accelerate pilot projects, and structure innovation initiatives to drive measurable outcomes.

Apr 4, 2018
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Scouting Trends & Emerging Tech

This research report covers how large enterprises identify emerging technologies and trends, socialize findings, run pilot experiments, and scale successful concepts based on survey data and advice from corporate innovation leaders.

Dec 19, 2017
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Governance, Reporting & Communications

This research report explores how large companies streamline innovation oversight, eliminate bloated approval committees, improve visibility for executive leadership, and communicate R&D initiatives across the enterprise.

Jun 13, 2017
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Innovation Teams & Business Units: Allies or Adversaries?

This research report investigates how corporate innovation teams and operational business units can align goals, resolve friction, and build productive working relationships using executive insights and survey data.

Feb 12, 2017
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How Much are Innovation Execs Paid?

This research report investigates compensation benchmarks for nearly 250 corporate innovation and R&D leaders, detailing how titles, seniority levels, and reporting lines affect base salaries and bonuses.

Nov 17, 2016
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Getting Connected Products Right

This research report investigates how companies develop connected products, highlighting adoption rates, market performance, common organizational roadblocks, and opportunities for innovation leaders to drive strategy.

Oct 6, 2016
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Making Lean Startup Work

This research report covers how large enterprises apply lean startup methodologies, highlighting practical benefits, operational hurdles, and real-world case studies from corporate innovation leaders.

Jun 29, 2016
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How Innovation Teams Bring on Top Talent

This research report investigates how corporate innovation units overcome insider homogeneity by securing budgets, working with HR, and onboarding external talent, featuring real job descriptions and enterprise case studies.

Oct 27, 2015

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