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Resource Scorecard: Create a Baseline Set of Innovation Metrics for Your Org
August 23, 2022
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...
Resource Data on Sustainability and ESG Initiatives
August 18, 2022
How are companies setting, communicating, and pursuing goals related to sustainability and sustainable development? Here’s survey data from mid-2022.
Resource List of Small Innovation Consulting Firms, Workshop Leaders, and Speakers
May 27, 2022
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, Pepsico, Lululemon, and Pfizer. And they’re based in the US, Australia, Canada,...
Resource SAIC: Accelerating ROI by De-Risking Investments
March 13, 2022
Single PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.
Resource Data on Open Innovation Usage
February 22, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
How often do companies source ideas externally — from customers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics? Explore this data visualization to find out.
Resource Data on Outcomes Senior Leaders Expect from R&D Groups
February 18, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows the outcomes that senior leaders expect from R&D groups, sortable by industry.
Resource Data on Why Organizations Kill Emerging Technology Projects
February 1, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows the reasons why innovative organizations sometimes want to abandon new technology opportunities.
Resource Data on How Organizations Identify Important Emerging Technologies
February 1, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows the methods in which innovative organizations look for and identify new emerging tech.
Resource PTC: Comic Book About Augmented Reality
February 1, 2022
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.
Resource Data on Organizational Support for R&D and Innovation
January 27, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows how much support R&D and innovation-oriented groups receive from other parts of the company, and from specific executives.
Resource The Role of Design and UX on an Innovation Team
January 7, 2022
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.
Resource Matrix: Should You Watch, or Experiment With, an Emerging Technology
October 14, 2021
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?
Resource Data on How Corporates Interact with Startups, by Experience Level
September 20, 2021
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.
Resource Data on Tactics That Support a Culture of Innovation, by Industry
August 9, 2021
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.
Resource Data on Innovation Obstacles and Enablers, by Industry
August 3, 2021
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…
Resource Data on Innovation Metrics and Reporting, by Industry
June 22, 2021
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.
Resource Overview of the Lean Startup Approach to Innovation
February 26, 2021
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.
Resource 3 Slides to Help Ensure Strategic Alignment and Deliver Value
December 28, 2020
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.
Resource Suggested Metrics for Your Innovation Portfolio
November 10, 2020
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.
Resource Scenario Planning for the Impact of Coronavirus
April 20, 2020
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.

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