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Article Gen AI May Be the Key to Innovation Teams’ Survival
January 18, 2024 | By Alex Slawsby and Rachel Gordon
Gen AI is a technology with the potential to transform core business processes, as well as the way organizations experiment, launch new products, and build new businesses. But many companies are still wondering where to start. Alex Slawsby and Rachel Gordon lay out seven steps.
Article How Generative AI Supercharges the Six Key Corporate Innovation Skills
December 14, 2023 | By Alex Slawsby
Generative AI-based tools are proving useful across these applications because their capabilities align well with some of the most important skills that innovators must develop and deploy. Let’s start with five and, with a particular nod to corporate innovators, add a sixth. Alex Slawsby lays it out in this piece...
Video Why a ‘Stop and Start’ Mentality Undercuts Innovation Outcomes
October 11, 2023
In this short video, Professor of Innovation Management Gina O'Connor talks about the importance of persistence — and why it's hard for organizations to stay the course.
Article Is Your Innovation Program (and Your Job) at Risk?
September 12, 2023 | By Scott Kirsner
These are challenging times for teams focused on the future, long-term R&D, and culture change within big organizations. Are there risk factors appearing in your organization that your team and your program could be under scrutiny — or getting the axe? Try this assessment.
On Demand Webcast Master Class: Fresh Benchmarking Data on Corporate Innovation
February 21, 2023
Hour-long webcast replay that explores data highlights from the research report Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2023, including data on team size, budget expectations, and innovation challenges.
Video Data Insights: Top 3 Innovation Challenges and Enablers
February 8, 2023
The top three challenges and enablers that innovators in big companies face have remained consistent over our three recent benchmarking surveys. They are...
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 5 Techniques to Get Aligned — and Stay Aligned — with your C-Suite
February 6, 2023 | By Rachel Antalek, Contributing Columnist and Former VP of Concept Innovation at Starbucks
Starbucks veteran Rachel Antalek shares the five battle-tested techniques she has used for creating and maintaining alignment with C-Suite leaders.
On Demand Webcast Master Class: Why Your Corporation Should Be Building New Ventures — And How to Get Your CFO on Board
January 23, 2023
In a recent webcast, Elliott Parker of High Alpha Innovation noted that building new ventures is not always simple — or perfectly convenient. But, for real change and growth, he said, organizations have to be willing to move beyond the status quo. Watch the webcast replay or get the slides...
Article The 5 Misconceptions in Corporate Innovation (and How to Overcome Them)
August 18, 2022 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
Columnist Mohan Nair lays out the top misconceptions in corporate innovation, and supplies strategies for overcoming them. Misconception #1: “All innovation should be done through operational teams, otherwise it will be a failure.”
Article What’s the Level of Innovation Urgency at Your Organization?
June 28, 2022 | By Scott Kirsner
How much urgency is there around innovation at your company? Check the answers that describe your organization, and get an instant assessment of where you stand.
Article 7 Tips for Introducing Ideas to Leadership
June 14, 2022 | By Mohan Nair, Contributing Columnist and Founder/CEO of Emerge Inc.
“Remember that one person’s idea is another’s cost,” writes veteran entrepreneur and executive Mohan Nair. Here are his tips on how to bring new concepts and ideas forward to leadership — even in non-traditional ways.
Article How to Make Ethnographic Interviewing Your Superpower: 5 Tips
May 9, 2022 | By Matt Mueller, Contributing Columnist
Learning how to do ethnographic interviews takes a lot of practice — and time. But if you are eager to learn more about what customers say vesus what they actually do, here are five tips to help you get started, from contributing columnist Matt Mueller.
Article How to Change an Innovation Skeptic’s Mind
March 30, 2022 | By Matt Mueller, Contributing Columnist
While it’s tempting to ignore skeptics, they can improve your idea if they feel included from the beginning. Innovation strategist Matt Mueller shares a techique to help shift perspectives and propel innovation foward.
Article What I Wish I Knew Before I Joined the Innovation Team
February 24, 2022 | By Matt Mueller, Contributing Columnist
Innovation is about going fast… or so Matt Mueller thought as an innovation novice drafted onto the team at a major food brand. In this piece, Mueller shares the challenges he wished he knew about beforehand.

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