Resources
Tools, decks, frameworks, models, and reports you can use.
How Innovation Happens at Nike
Insights about how Nike pursues innovation, from a December 2025 member meeting with Jordan Rice, COO of Nike Innovation.
Innovation Progress: Geopolitical Risks
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.
Digital Transformation in Large Multinationals
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.
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals: R&D Day Slide Deck
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.
Minerals Technologies: Innovation Day Slide Deck
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.
Nestlé: Accelerating growth with ‘fewer, bigger, better’ innovations
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.
Innovation Maturity Assessment
Innovation Roadmap Template
Open Innovation at NASA
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.
Corporate Purchasing and Adoption of AI Tools in 2025
This research report investigates corporate AI tool adoption by analyzing buyer discovery preferences, key purchasing stakeholders, procurement hurdles, expanding budgets, and vendor evaluation criteria across large enterprises.
Innovation Progress: Supply Chain Risks
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.
Innovation Progress: Macroeconomic Risks
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.
Nike Impact Report
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.
Boeing Internal Innovation Communications
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.”
Merck’s Strategic Framework
This five-page document released in 2023 provides an overview of the company’s strategic innovation framework, including priorities, methods and values.
ExxonMobil’s Approach to R&D
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.
Ford Mobility Challenge: Process and Approach
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.
PepsiCo Innovation Use Cases
The $92 billion food and beverage giant PepsiCo created this fantastic, clear, concise format for describing specific areas of opportunity for innovation.
PepsiCo Labs Approach to Pilots
2025 PDF on the PepsiCo Labs model for delivering End-to-End Program Pilots.



























