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On Demand Webcast Venture Building 2.0: Past Mistakes, New Principles, and a Path to Delivering Meaningful Growth
March 6, 2024
This recent Master Class featured Jon Corshen, Founder of Pilot44, sharing the core principles of new venture building models.
On Demand Webcast Your Random Acts of Innovation Aren’t Working
February 16, 2024
This recent Master Class featured Anna Veatch, Managing Director at Innosight and Erez Agmoni, Global Head of Innovation at Maersk, the Danish shipping conglomerate. Includes slides...
Video How Executives Should Think About Working with Venture Studios
February 5, 2024 | By Alex Slawsby
In this short video, Elliott Parker of High Alpha Innovation explains what a venture studio is; various structures; and how to measure success.
Research Report Driving Growth Through New Ventures and Corporate VC
January 10, 2024
For this research project, more than 25 corporations in the US and EU spoke to InnoLead or completed our survey to share their advice — and the challenges they face — related to new venture creation and corporate venture capital initiatives.
Video What’s Changing in Corporate VC and Internal New Venture Creation?
January 8, 2024 | By Scott Kirsner
This one hour video explores what has been changing in the realms of corporate venture capital and incubating new ventures — and how those activities can be linked. Featuring guests from KPMG, Johnson & Johnson, Allegion, and TDK.
Research Report Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2023
February 6, 2023
Get InnoLead's definitive report on innovation inside big organizations, with survey data, interviews, and advice from your peers related to innovation budgets, teams, reporting structure, activities, and more.
Article Assessment: Does Your Organization Value Ideas?
January 3, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
This 18-question assessment was designed to help leaders understand how effectively their organization collects, assesses, and manages ideas from the employee base. You'll get an instant score at the end.
Article How Hyundai is Working to Bring its ‘Ultimate Mobility Vehicle’ Vision to Life
October 20, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
We spoke with John Suh, Founding Director of Hyundai's New Horizons Studio, to hear about the development of Ultimate Mobility Vehicles; the team's new facility in Montana; and how the team balances digital and physical prototyping.
Article Google Innovation Lead and Harvard Researcher on Overcoming the Challenges to Design Thinking
September 27, 2022 | By Meghan Hall
Prapti Jha, a Design Strategist and Researcher at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Harsh Wardhan, an Innovation Program Lead at Google Cloud Solution Studio, spoke with us about what design thinking actually entails, how it can be valuable for innovation and design in large organizations, and misunderstandings...
Video Cartoonist Lisa Rothstein Teaches Better Communication Through Doodling
May 10, 2022
Even if you think you can’t draw — at all — this two-part workshop will help you become dramatically better at doodling in less than two hours. Your instructor is noted meeting facilitator, New Yorker columnist, and former ad agency copywriter Lisa Rothstein.
On Demand Webcast What It Takes to Build a Successful New Venture
May 9, 2022
Building and launching new ventures inside large organizations is no easy task. In this Master Class replay, Sean Sheppard of U+ unpacks the most powerful lessons and insights that he has gained after over 20 years of experience bringing new products to market.
Article Beneath the Buzz: What are Venture Studios and Builders, and How Do They Work with Corporates?
May 4, 2022
A growing number of big company leaders like the idea of hiring a firm like this to help them develop that elusive “next big thing.” But it’s a confusing landscape. There are hundreds of organizations of different shapes, sizes, and capabilities that call themselves venture studios, or say that they...
Article Member Spotlight: George Dunning, Canada Post
April 27, 2022 | By Kate Katz
George Dunning is Director of Innovation at Canada Post, a federally-owned Crown corporation and the primary postal service in Canada. We spoke with him about his open innovation framework, and the challenges of innovating inside a large corporation and as part of our IL Member Spotlight series.
On Demand Webcast Ideas Aren’t Enough. What’s Your Innovation ROI?
April 12, 2022
In this Master Class replay, Suzan Briganti and Mary Ann Bianco of Swarm Vision discuss the importance of delivering measurable results through innovation and examine the mindsets of consistently successful innovators around the world.
On Demand Webcast Centers of Excellence: How Companies Like LEGO, GlaxoSmithKline, and Bang & Olufsen Innovate
March 24, 2022
In this Master Class replay, Jay Peters discusses the success factors that drive innovation; examined the keys to creating a “center of excellence”; and highlighted lessons from companies such as Lego, GlaxoSmithKline, and more.

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