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Getting an Innovation Program Started

Foundational research, videos, case studies, peer advice, podcasts, roadmaps, and partner guidance for innovation teams.

Starting or resetting an innovation program takes more than a mandate. This collection gathers practical research, examples, and templates for getting aligned and building momentum.

Research Reports

Research Report

Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2023

This research report covers survey data and executive insights on how corporate innovation teams structure operations, manage budgets, and deliver quantifiable business impact.

Mike DiClaudio · Feb 6, 2023
Research Report

Best Practices: Slides from Top R&D and Innovation Leaders

This research report dives into 60 slide frameworks from corporate innovation and R&D leaders detailing strategies for technology scouting, pipeline evaluation, and overcoming internal resistance to transformation.

Oct 27, 2022
Research Report

Blueprints for Corporate Innovators

This research report covers practical tools, templates, and frameworks developed alongside corporate innovation executives to help large organizations structure and execute their R&D initiatives.

Aug 16, 2018

Case Studies

Insights

Expedia Exec: Three Elements for Successful Innovation

David Krieger, Sr. Director of Strategy and Business Development for Expedia.com, shares his advice on making innovation happen inside large organizations, and three trends his team is watching. 

Kelsey Alpaio · Aug 20, 2019
Insights

The 20 Mistakes New Corporate Innovators Make

Being tapped to lead innovation inside a big, established organization is a tough assignment. Here are the 20 most common mistakes that we see new corporate innovators make.

Oct 10, 2019
Insights

Q&A: Setting Up a New Innovation Function from Scratch

Jim Suchara joined The Doctors Company, a $1.2 billion malpractice insurance carrier, in September 2021. We spoke with Suchara, the company’s Chief Innovation Officer, about entering a new organization to spur innovation.

Scott Kirsner · Jun 23, 2022

IL Confidential Video Series

Peer Advice

Insights

Three Tactics to Spur Innovation Inside Highly-Regulated Companies

If you’re on the inside of a traditional, regulated industry and want to shake up the status quo, here are three things you need to start doing, according to the former Head of Worldwide Innovation at Pfizer. Includes a downloadable set of tips.

Daniel Seewald · Nov 25, 2019
Insights

How to Use Myth Busting to Unlock Innovation and Growth

Most companies hold on to longstanding myths about their business and customers that constrain new ideas and experimentation — but just aren’t true anymore. Johnsonville LLC Director of Innovation Erik Falck shares four steps to get your colleagues questioning these myths and moving past them.

Erik Falck · Feb 7, 2022

Innovation Answered Podcast

Podcast

All Your Innovation Questions, Answered

We answer questions on corporate innovation submtted by listeners. Get advice on H3 innovation, going from good to great, and spreading innovation company-wide. 

Kaitlin Milliken · Oct 22, 2019
Podcast

Getting Innovation Started

How can teams set innovation initiatives up for success? To get best practices, we sat down with guests from Marriott, Comcast NBCUniversal, and Innosight.

Kaitlin Milliken · Nov 12, 2019
Podcast

Building a Culture of Innovation at Delta Dental

How can organizations build a culture of innovation and effectively create buy-in for change? Sarah Chavarria, the Chief People Officer of Delta Dental, explains. 

Kaitlin Milliken · Feb 23, 2021

The Corporate Innovation Roadmap

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Corporate Innovation Roadmap

Getting consensus to launch a new innovation initiative can require tremendous time and energy. We put together this two-page roadmap/worksheet to help you think through some of the elements you’ll need to put in place to ensure that projects make it to the finish line, and that you can build your team, momentum, and reputation […]

Feb 28, 2017

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