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.