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Resource NRG Energy: Idea Dash
April 5, 2016
A document outlining NRG’s idea challenge, called Idea Dash, including a 10-week timeline, key activities, and idea submission form.
Resource Mercer: Internal Innovation Newsletter
April 5, 2016
A newsletter designed to inform the company’s workforce of innovation efforts, including how to work with the team and soliciting people to participate in innovation workshops. Mercer is a human resources consulting firm.
Resource Intel: Work Practices Innovation Team
April 5, 2016
A one-page outline of the goals, challenges, and guiding principles for the chipmaker’s Work Practices Innovation Team.
Resource HCA Healthcare: InnovationLink Site Overview
April 5, 2016
An overview of the company’s “InnovationLink,” a web site open to all full-time employees that allows them to post, search, find and collaborate on projects and ideas that address their problems. HCA operates hospitals, clinics, and surgical centers and is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn.
Resource FirstEnergy: Products Operating System
April 5, 2016
A one-page flowchart showing the systems and process for the Ohio-based utility’s product development and innovation teams.
Resource ExxonMobil: #Innovation Team Roles
April 5, 2016
A one-page outline of the roles on the energy company’s “#innovation” team, including roles geared to strategy, catalysts, and franchisees.
Resource CSAA Insurance: Measuring Insight & Innovation
April 5, 2016
How the California-based insurer CSAA measures its innovation efforts, including a scorecard, key drivers, and a maturity model.
Resource CSAA Insurance: Building a Disruptive Innovation Capability
April 5, 2016
A nicely-illustrated document outlining the company’s efforts to build a disruptive capability — including flow-charts and graphs.
Resource CSAA Insurance: The Defining Characteristics of a Culture of Innovation
April 5, 2016
A 41-page PDF document outlining the California-based insurance company’s thoughts on the defining characterstics of an innovative culture, and how they hope to achieve that goal.
Resource CSAA Insurance: Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer Job Description
April 5, 2016
A job description for the insurance company CSAA’s chief strategy and innovation officer, including a position summary, key duties and responsibilities, and the impact the position is expected to have on the organization.
Resource Clorox: Agile Development for Innovation
April 5, 2016
An outline of the CPG company’s migration to a more agile innovation process, from a long, five-gate process to a new, shorter, three-gate process with “hard stops.”
Resource Aon: Model for Innovation
April 5, 2016
A guiding innovation model for Aon Health & Benefits, including guiding principles, flowcharts, and an illustrated R&D process.
Resource Innovation and Acceleration Lab Objectives
April 5, 2016
A graphical overview of an anonymous company’s innovation lab efforts, including an “Innovation Ambition Matrix” and models of corporate entrepreneurship.
Resource Telefónica: Lean Product Development in a Very Big Organization
March 28, 2016
Overview of how the Spanish telecommunications company has been deploying the lean startup approach with consumers and business customers.
Resource Hearst Health: Innovation Lab Overview
March 2, 2016
Short overview of the innovation lab at Hearst Health, including its mission and some of the methodologies it uses to develop new offerings.
Resource ExxonMobil: Grassroots Innovation Forum
February 21, 2016
Overview of how Houston-based ExxonMobil created an online “virtual café” where company IT employees can share ideas for improvements and cost-savings, and get funding and mentoring to move them forward.
Resource MasterCard: Innovation Programs Overview
February 11, 2016
MasterCard Labs is MasterCard’s global Research and Development division, focused on the evolution of technological and consumer trends and the implication of these evolutions on the payments and commerce industries. This document offers an overview of their programs (as of Oct. 2015).
Resource Intel: Open Innovation 2.0
February 10, 2016
Presentation focuses on how Intel Labs is seeking to create technology that is relevant to society by working with four outside constituencies: government, academia, citizens, and other companies. Includes slide on how company works toward making innovation “predictable, probable and profitable,” rather than occasional and project-based.
Resource IKEA: Looking at the Edge to Understand the Future
December 23, 2015
An overview of how the home goods manufacturer and retailer collects consumer insights, runs hackathons, and uses an innovation space in Copenhagen to explore future living trends. Includes video.
Resource BBVA: Capitalizing on Innovation
December 22, 2015
Overview of how the Spanish bank runs its “Open Talent” competition for startups focused on the financial services industry, which generated 653 applications in 2015.