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Resource ODL: Front End of the Pipeline Exploration
May 2, 2017
A one-page flowchart describing how the company identifies, defines, and prioritizes problems & opportunities. ODL manufactures door glass, skylights, screen doors, and blind.
Resource Harris Computer: The Innovator’s Voice
May 2, 2017
A guide to Harris Computer’s “Innovator’s Voice Competition,” which enables individuals and teams to spend some of their time innovating and creating new, novel products and services for customers. Harris develops mission critical software applications for the public sector, healthcare, utilities and private sector verticals.
Resource CSAA Insurance: Innovation Growth Board Process
May 2, 2017
An overview of the insurance company’s enterprise-wide process to identify, execute and oversee strategic growth projects.
Resource Delta Faucet: R&D Innovation Manager Job Description
May 1, 2017
Official job description for the company’s R&D Innovation Manager.
Resource Microsoft: DevDiv Culture, Values & Behaviors
May 1, 2017
A presentation that reviews the company’s cultural values and behaviors as discovered at a recent “DevDiv” (Developer Division) event.
Resource Crown Equipment: Dimensions of Tension Method Guide
May 1, 2017
An overview of the company’s structured exercise to stimulate discussion and surface assumptions around topics like the strategic rationale, the business opportunity, or the development approach. Crown makes forklifts and other material handling equipment.
Resource Seyfarth Shaw: Lean by Design
May 1, 2017
An article on client-centered service design written by the law firm’s chairman.
Resource BAE Systems: Grassroots Innovation and Senior Leadership, Tying it all Together
May 1, 2017
How the aerospace and defense company bridges the gap between what senior leadership wants and how the company executes grassroots innovation.
Resource American Family Insurance: Innovation Org Design
May 1, 2017
A flow-chart of the insurance company’s innovation organization.
Resource Stryker: Customer Centered Design Principles
May 1, 2017
The medical device company’s reasoning behind customer-centered design, which it says allows teams to understand and deliver solutions to address unmet needs, hidden opportunities, and difficult problems.
Resource HCA Healthcare: Assembling & Empowering the Teams
May 1, 2017
One-page chart focused on answering the question “What’s a Win?” for various groups at the hospital operator that touch innovation.
Resource LinkedIn: 6-Thon Framework
April 28, 2017
An open framework for executing innovation and measuring success at the social networking company.
Resource Attributes of Innovators
April 28, 2017
An interesting one-page chart for assessing innovation potential in an employee or potential new hire. Submitted anonymously.
Resource Bridgestone: Innovation Platform
April 28, 2017
A slide deck describing the innovation platform and processes of the tire and auto parts manufacturer.
Resource Bayer: Life Science iHub Overview
April 28, 2017
An overview and photos of Bayer’s Life Science iHub center and team, focused on digital technologies. The iHub’s competencies include sensors, machine learning, app development, and business model innovation.
Resource Optum: Entrepreneur-in-Residence Job Description
April 28, 2017
A detailed job description for the company’s Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program. Optum is part UnitedHealth Group.
Resource Optum: Overview of Optum Garage
April 28, 2017
A full overview of the Optum Garage training program, which helps teams build new products, establish new businesses and expand customer value through an immersion training program. Optum is a provider of healthcare services that is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Resource The Corporate Innovation Ecosystem: Map & Discussion Guide
April 25, 2017
Illustrated map laying out the key players inside the company, and outside it, who can contribute to (or sometimes inhibit) corporate innovation. Includes discussion questions useful in laying out innovation strategy and timeframe, and defusing some of the tensions that can occur. Useful guide for a management team discussing how...
Resource RASCI Matrix: For Clarifying Roles & Building Support for Projects
April 18, 2017
A RASCI matrix is a tool that can be used to build consistent support for innovation, while mitigating against common failure modes like role ambiguity, when people aren’t sure what exactly they’re supposed to do — or want to weigh in more than you’d like. This downloadable Excel spreadsheet is...
Resource Dealing With Failure
April 13, 2017
The best organizations in the world will experience failure — they expect it. And they are ready to learn from it. Here’s some advice from Julia Austin, CTO of DigitalOcean and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, about dealing with failure.