Resources

Insights about how Nike pursues innovation, from a December 2025 member meeting with Jordan Rice, COO of Nike Innovation.

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.

PowerPoint presentation delivered in 2022 by Alexandru Darie, a veteran of Schneider Electric, Signify, Sensata, and Phillips Lighting. Provides insights and best practices for digital transformation; lean startup; discovery-based planning; agile; and scrum teams.

Good PDF overview of the product pipeline at the publicly-held pharma company Alnylam, including an agenda for R&D Day; overview of current partnerships; and emphasis on future growth drivers for the company.

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.

This 2024 deck explains how Nestlé is focusing on a “fewer, bigger, better” approach to innovation and marketing, prioritizing impactful projects, strategic investments, and consumer-centric value propositions.

Includes great content on making the case for open innovation; dealing with intellectual property concerns; and examples of challenges NASA has conducted and solutions/technologies it has found.

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.

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.

This 2023 report details Nike’s commitment to accelerating the development and adoption of sustainable materials, integrating advanced manufacturing technologies, and leveraging digital transformation to drive efficiency and environmental impact.

How do you effectively communicate innovations to an employee base that spans 170,000 employees in 65 countries around the world? At Boeing, the answer lies in an internal innovation newsletter called “Innovation Quarterly.”

This five-page document released in 2023 provides an overview of the company’s strategic innovation framework, including priorities, methods and values.

This one-page document provides a simple snapshot of the company’s focus areas, academic partnerships, and the national lab relationships driving R&D strategy.

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 $92 billion food and beverage giant PepsiCo created this fantastic, clear, concise format for describing specific areas of opportunity for innovation.

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

Enterprise Design Thinking is IBM’s approach to applying design thinking at the speed and scale the modern enterprise demands. It’s a framework for teaming and action. It helps teams not only form intent, but deliver outcomes.

This Excel spreadsheet provides a sample of large enterprises working with the top 25 AI “unicorn” startups, including ChatGPT, X.ai, Harvey, Hugging Face, and more.

In this PDF download created in June 2025, Curtis Michelson takes a deep dive into how people are using generative AI coding tools; the risks and potential return on investment; some of the most popular and powerful platforms; and a few of the open questions about where this all goes.

This 13-page PDF presents the outcomes of a session led by David Crean, Chief Innovation Officer at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, at the 2024 Impact conference. It explores key success metrics that business leaders focus on; how those are different from the metrics innovation leaders focus on; attitudes of different roles like CEO, CFO, CIO, and business unit leader toward innovation; and how participants allocate resources across three types of innovation.

40 slides on the trajectory of AI, strategic questions companies should be asking in 2025, and case studies of deployments at companies like J.P. Morgan and Nissan.

Highlights from a February 2025 InnoLead members’ meeting on career paths, featuring veterans of Clorox, Fidelity Investments, Allstate, Whirlpool, HSBC, PA Consulting, and GM.

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…

This 33-slide PPT and related video tackle the question of innovating over the long-term, with lots of concrete examples, and references to the approaches of Thomas Edison, Clayton Christensen, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, among others.

This 33-slide PPT and related video tackle the question of innovating over the long-term, with lots of concrete examples, and references to the approaches of Thomas Edison, Clayton Christensen, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, among others.

Developed for use at a high-profile media company, this 29-page PDF playbook is “a reference to guide you through a repeatable end to end innovation approach.”

Eighteen helpful resources to keep you on the cutting edge of generative AI developments, recommended by other members of the InnoLead community.

The InnoLead team compiled this deck, available in PowerPoint and PDF form, as a resource for professionals helping to shape AI strategy and deployments.

We surveyed InnoLead corporate members, as well as vendor, advisory, and academic members, about the issues at the top for their agenda for 2025.

This deck, assembled by InnoLead, highlights the 14 most essential concepts in corporate innovation to help organizations foster creativity, agility, and leadership. We define each concept, provide a visual or framework that helps make it concrete, and recommend books, articles, or online resources to learn more.

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.

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.

What are the best courses for someone looking to build their generative AI skills in 2025? We did the research for you, highlighting 20 courses that range from free to $25,000. Download the spreadsheet.

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.

AI is going to become the default setting for 90 percent of professionals… and 10 more predictions about AI’s impact on innovation management.

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.

This short slide deck summarizes an August 2024 discussion about the new ISO 56000 set of standards for innovation management.

Presented at an InnoLead event in May 2023, this short PDF preso puts AI into context, and looks at how it will transform layers of civilization, from fashion to culture to nature.

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.

Created in June 2024, here’s our curated list of software-as-a-service tools for innovation, insights, design, startup scouting, and other tasks.

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.

Short but specific slide deck from a June 2024 InnoLead members meeting. Covers what must be in place to build capability for strategic innovation, as well as key lessons from trying to ensure the capability survives and thrives over time.

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.

From May 2024: A look at the WINS framework, the law of computability, and the three phases of generative AI adoption: understanding, leverage, and transformation.

From May 2024: a look at AI software vendors targeting the enterprise; the enterprise AI development stack; emerging GenAI use cases; eight key GenAI capabilities enterprises are investing in; and more.

AT&T’s AI policy, created in 2021 and updated in 2023, applies to both employees and third-parties that might be involved in creating or using AI solutions. The document explains specific requirements for using GenAI, and outlines a number of principles to which the parties must adhere.

Customer relationship management firm Salesforce has deployed AI throughout its product set, and has codified a set of five “Trusted AI Principles” that are embedded in the business.

This 26-page PDF is a fascinating document, as it outlines the United States’ Department of Defense approach to improving organizational readiness to deploy AI. It explains the intended outcomes of using AI, the DoD’s approach to agile, and then explains what capabilities are needed for what purposes.

The $57 billion technology company has published more than most companies related to AI. First, it published a document outlining its six principles for responsible AI. Then, the company unveiled a more detailed AI framework that is intended to be applied to the development and use of AI by Cisco. Get access to both PDFs…

The $47 billion British telecom Vodafone published an excellent seven-page AI framework in 2019 that explained how the company intended to develop and employ AI technologies.

$58 billion pharma company Pfizer published a two-page “policy paper” that provided some greater detail than the three “Responsible AI Principles” that is has communicated publicly. The policy paper outlines the company’s position on AI development, use, regulation, governance, transparency, privacy, training, and other matters.

While not a policy, per se, InnoLead members might be interested in seeing Cigna’s publicly-posted “approach” to ethical AI. The brief statement from the $195 billion healthcare insurer disclosed that is has an AI Center of Enablement that governs AI “guardrails, systemic controls and processes” and ensures the responsible use of AI. The cross-functional Center includes individuals from technology, security, legal, compliance, marketing, and other departments.

This three-page document explains how employees are supposed to categorize the risk of particular AI solutions, and offers a list of 11 sample questions on topics from cyber security to health and safety (i.e., “Is there a risk to the health or safety of individuals, posed by use of the AI?”)

The $371 billion healthcare giant UHG included a new “responsible AI” policy in its 2022 sustainability report. The AI policy, while just a simple one-pager, includes details on governance, an internal ML Review Board, and outlined key components, and referenced an internal “Responsible Use of AI” program that was established with an external advisory board.

Weighing in at 27-pages, the Microsoft AI Standard explains the operationalization of six AI principles related to accountability, transparency, fairness, and other topics.

Like Adobe and other software firms that have incorporated GenAI into their core products, digital design tool Canva has unveiled special Terms of Use that govern their AI products.

As GenAI makes its way into product offerings, companies are providing addendums to their Terms of Use that coverage GenAI user guidelines. $19 billion software company Adobe, for example, has published a bulleted list of new guidelines that govern the use of Adobe’s GenAI features.

From the description: “Engage with business leadership and stakeholders to promote the AI vision, facilitate the design of processes for AI integration, champion AI initiatives across the organization, secure support, and drive adoption and change management.”

“We are seeking an innovative and experienced Chief AI Officer to join our corporate team in Los Angeles. In this role, you will be responsible for spearheading the development and implementation of AI solutions to elevate guest experiences, optimize operational efficiency and unlock new revenue streams across our hotels.”

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: “As a Gen AI Analyst, you will be at the forefront of developing and implementing innovative artificial intelligence solutions for our organization.”

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.”

From the description: “We are seeking an experienced and forward-thinking Director of AI to spearhead the development and implementation of artificial intelligence strategies within our marketing area to gain increased productivity and overall effectiveness of our organization.”

From the description: “Capital One is searching for an enterprising Director of Generative AI capable of directing the development of the company’s generative AI platform. If selected, the chosen candidate will lead a team of AI experts focused on optimizing training pipelines, deploying large ML models, and building scalable infrastructure using advanced cloud technologies.”

The Chief Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Officer will be a key partner with the Vice Chairs, Chief Digital Officer, and other key leaders in setting the strategy and related performance outcomes for the AI/ML portfolio of U.S. Bank. As a report to the Chief Digital Officer of U.S. Bank, this role will also be key part of the executive leadership of the digital organization, setting its strategic direction in partnership with the executive leadership team.

UCLA’s Chief Data & Artificial Intelligence Officer will be responsible for discovering opportunities to leverage advanced data, analytics, and artificial intelligence across the campus community, collaborating and enabling the organization to pursue innovations in data and AI, and advancing the university’s capabilities through internal and external partnerships.

Orbit is a platform being developed by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship to support new venture development, and they’re interested in giving early access to corporate leaders from the InnoLead community, to test it out and provide feedback.

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.

Five Gen AI workouts to boost your productivity and understanding. Each takes no more than twenty minutes.

This research report covers how corporate innovation teams are integrating AI tools, shifting their strategic priorities, and managing emerging risks, drawing from survey data and leadership interviews.

InnoLead created this AI vision map with our friends at School of the Possible in January 2024 to help you and your colleagues think through where you are, and what destination you’re heading toward. Available in PPT and PDF format.

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.

Presented at an InnoLead event in May 2023, this short PPT preso serves up an overview of how AI will impact healthcare over the coming five years, specifically focused on wellness/healthcare/aging at home, but also touching on drug discovery and the work of clinicians.

This spreadsheet lays out the strengths and weakesses of different approaches to driving innovation. It’s excerpted from our 2024 report, “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.

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.

This short PPT deck looks at the state of generative AI in 2023 and poses the questions of whether it might help facilitate better knowledge management across silos of a large organization, or change the way user interfaces are designed.

Is your organization moving beyond talk toward action when it comes to generative AI tools and use cases? This 10-question assessment will give you an instant readiness readout — from minimal to moderate to complete readiness.

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.

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.

These are challenging times for teams focused on the future, long-term R&D, and culture change within big organizations. Are there risk factors appearing in your organization that your team and your program could be under scrutiny — or getting the axe? Try this assessment.

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.

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.

Generative AI is a big buzzword right now. But what are the tools you and your team should be exploring? Download our new spreadsheet, which lists a number of tools and resources to help you get started with generative AI.

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.

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.

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.

This 18-question assessment was designed to help leaders understand how effectively their organization collects, assesses, and manages ideas from the employee base. You’ll get an instant score at the end.

This research report investigates how corporations scout, partner with, and invest in startups, drawing on survey data and executive interviews to help leaders shape their venture strategies.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

How are companies setting, communicating, and pursuing goals related to sustainability and sustainable development? Here’s survey data from mid-2022. 

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.

Created inside publicly-traded companies, this short PowerPoint deck collects worksheets, templates, and “cheat sheets” related to evaluating opportunities, fleshing out concepts, and conducting customer research.

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.

Created inside a publicly-traded insurance firm, this PowerPoint deck makes the case for committing resources to the startup ecosystem, venture funds, accelerators, and universities. 

Are you ready to engage with the startup ecosystem? How comprehensive is your startup strategy? Answer these 15 questions to find out.

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, […]

Single PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.

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.

How often do companies source ideas externally — from customers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics? Explore this data visualization to find out.

This data visualization shows the outcomes that senior leaders expect from R&D groups, sortable by industry.

This data visualization shows the reasons why innovative organizations sometimes want to abandon new technology opportunities. 

This data visualization shows the methods in which innovative organizations look for and identify new emerging tech. 

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.

This data visualization shows how much support R&D and innovation-oriented groups receive from other parts of the company, and from specific executives. 

This short PowerPoint deck, developed inside a publicly-traded manufacturing company, was created to make sure that everyone is on the same page with the “What, Where, When, Why, How” of innovation. It includes explainer slides with annotations, followed by slides that can be easily adapted for use with your company.

Adapted from the Business Model Canvas to better fit the needs of the corporate world, this Idea Canvas allows you to follow a high-level scientific process when evaluating ideas and then use the criteria from the Idea Canvas when testing or validating that idea. Developed by a Senior Director working in the retail industry.

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.

An exercise to do with colleagues: If you were given 100 pennies to invest in different open innovation partners, like small suppliers, universities, startups, etc., where are you investing resources and time today? Where is innovation actually coming from? What should you do differently? 

Five-page PowerPoint document created to help an innovation group define roles related to design, including UX (user experience), and assess the skill sets of individuals. 

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.

Submitted anonymously in 2021, this slide looks at how one organization thinks about important and not (yet) important emerging technologies. How would you fill out this matrix for your organization today? Does everyone agree?

What resources do other corporates have in place for interacting with the startup ecosystem? What do they find most challenging? Explore the answers in these five data visualizations.

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.

PowerPoint deck of charts and qualitative comments from our 2021 survey on the role that design plays in large organizations.

What tactics do corporate innovators feel create and support a culture of innovation? We asked that question in a recent survey, and here’s the data, sortable by industry.

What are the blockers that stand in the way of innovation progress — or the things that enable it? Here’s data to answer those two questions…

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.

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.

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.

This research report investigates how large organizations design effective innovation metrics and reporting systems to demonstrate business impact and secure long-term support from leadership.

Deck from 2019 providing a thorough overview of the lean startup methodology, along with many helpful templates. Used inside a manufacturing company to help guide the development of mobile apps, as well as hardware, IoT connected products, and research initiatives.

Welcome to InnoLead’s Innovation Maturity Model assessment. This diagnostic is designed to help innovation, R&D, strategy, and new product development leaders understand the strengths and weaknesses of their innovation programs, and provide an instant score. This assessment is designed for current corporate professionals and should only take about 5 minutes to complete. There are three […]

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.

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. 

This research report covers benchmarking data from 15 financial services firms, detailing how their innovation groups approach staffing, mandates, incubation activities, and performance metrics.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

InnoLead publishes in-depth quarterly special reports on a variety of topics, from startup engagement, to working with risk and compliance, to executing on quick wins, and more. This presentation collects charts and graphs from InnoLead’s recent research reports for your use.

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. 

Details how the investment management firm is applying design thinking.

Lots of definitions and templates related to the project management process at WD-40.

Why do you need to move fast? This graphic lays out all of the things that happen on the Internet every minute, from Amazon sales to Netflix movies viewed.

Explores how the collaboration software companies thinks about horizons; lean startup; training; and scaling projects that work.

Job description for a Singapore-based position at Citi Ventures — a D10X Startup Coach and Entrepreneur-in-Residence who will play “a critical role in the D10X program by helping the D10X startup teams keep their ‘eye on the prize’, providing an outside-in perspective, staying true to the D10X process and generally contributing to the cultivation of the ‘new skills […]

Job description for a role at Disney that will “be responsible for establishing this new function through the development of strategies for the Emerging Technologies portfolio, and facilitating the delivery of innovative projects from ideation through implementation.”

Created by the Google for Work Innovation Lab, which helps to train Google employees, this 19-slide deck lays out a set of principles that guide innovation at the company, including “be prototype-driven” and “focus on the user — and all else follows.”

Submitted anonymously in 2018, this slide looks at technology trends that apply to a company’s core business — or could be relevant to adjacent or white space projects. Includes blockchain, quantum computing, AI, and drones as examples.

Short overview of how the medical device maker defines “meaningful innovation,” along with some examples of successful projects. Breaks innovation down into “therapy innovation,” “system innovation,” and “procedural innovation.”

Form for submitting ideas for projects to the innovation team at the student loan company ECMC. Includes definition of an “ideal project” — as well as what is less than ideal.

Overview of trends and digital transformation strategy at the $33.5 billion energy company — as well as the challenges of pursuing innovation in the nuclear power industry.