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Video from our July 2026 members’ meeting focused on “vibe entrepreneurship” and intrapreneurship.

This replay with Berto Mill of Aucctus and corporate innovation veteran Harry Laplanche discussed how forward-looking teams are restructuring and reskilling for a world where AI runs the connected process.

In this session, Qmarkets shares findings from a recent study of innovation maturity across enterprise organizations, including three patterns that explain why so many programs feel busy but can’t show results. Watch the replay or get the slides.

In this session, Qmarkets shares findings from a recent study of innovation maturity across enterprise organizations, including three patterns that explain why so many programs feel busy but can’t show results. Watch the replay or get the slides.

Video from our April 2026 members’ meeting featuring Susan Lindner, the host of the podcast Innovation Storytellers and a keynote speaker and trainer focused on teaching storytelling skills.

Video from our March 2026 members’ meeting featuring Curtis Kopf, an innovation executive with experience working at Insulet, REI, Amazon, and Alaska Airlines, among others.

Video from our January 2026 members’ meeting featuring Moisés Noreña, Head of Product and Innovation at MiTek.

In this webcast replay, Chris Townsend of Wellspring details the differences between Type I and Type II innovation programs.

Video from our November 2025 members’ meeting featuring George Leimer, GM of Yahoo! Finance and former Head of Product and Technology of Yahoo! Sports.

This webcast explores how low-cost, real-world experiments can deliver insights that traditional user research and surveys can’t. Josh Clayton and Tim Ogilvie of Peer Insight share stories of simple, rapid tests that saved millions, revealed customer truths, and built executive confidence.

Matthew Heim from Ezassi and Jon Mello from Teknor Apex share their advice for entering new markets.

Video overview of an InnoLead research report on how corporate assess and acquire AI tools.

What can other company’s learn from The LEGO Group’s Creative Play Lab? Check out these short videos…

AI is changing how new businesses are designed. This webcast features Matt Stewart of Disruptive Edge providing a hands-on walkthrough of some AI-native tools they’re using to reshape early-stage innovation.

Video from our September 2025 members’ meeting, on building new product offerings and experiences with generative AI at Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business School.

This webcast features Chris Townsend of Wellspring discussing how a growth innovation methodology helps companies not only adapt, but thrive.

Corporate innovation often faces its greatest threat not from external competition, but from internal “antibodies” that systematically reject transformational ideas. In this webcast replay, seasoned innovation leaders share hard-won insights from over 15 years leading Intel’s new business incubator.

Generative AI has dramatically lowered the cost—and time—of launching new products. In this new landscape, innovation teams are no longer just building faster; they’re operating in a world where speed is table stakes. The real differentiator? Context.

This webcast features Jennifer Dunn of HYPE Innovation and Caitlin Lawrence of Birla Carbon, a manufacturing leader renowned for its world-class innovation program, discussing proven strategies that translate your innovation efforts into tangible business value. 

Can “awesomeness” be part of a business case? Ziad Sultan of Spotify makes the case in this session from Impact 2024.

CarMax’s CIO on moving from a project mindset to a product mindset, engaging the C-suite, and empowering teams with clear goals. Video from our 2024 Impact conference.

Target’s Chief Digital and Product Officer, Prat Vemana, joined InnoLead on stage at our Impact 2024 conference last October. Among the topics he discussed with InnoLead co-founder Scott Cohen: To watch highlights from the session, click “play” above. Our next Impact conference is coming up this Oct 20th-22nd, 2025 in Boston, MA.

Our July 2025 members’ meeting featured Jo Hickson, Director of Innovation at Stockholm-based retailer H&M Group, and the former head of Tesco Labs. Video and notes inside…

As part of our recent AI Build Day Event, on June 12th in Cambridge, Mass., we invited speakers to kick off the day with lightning talks about where AI is delivering value today — and how it will evolve from here. This talk by Matt Stewart of Disruptive Edge and Vincent Atallah of Aucctus explores how artificial intelligence can transform innovation within large organizations.

This webcast features David Matheson and Doug Williams of SmartOrg, Inc. discussing the “messy middle” of the innovation process — and sharing a case study about how to make it through.

One of the featured speakers at our 2025 “AI Build Day” event was Abhi Yadav, co-founder of AI Innovators Community. He focused on the challenge of having good data for agentic AI systems to access, otherwise AI can’t deliver good insights and results. We’ve got slides and video from his talk…

One of the featured speakers at our 2025 “AI Build Day” event was Matt Herman of the e-commerce site Wayfair, who talked about the four key areas where Wayfair is applying AI to improve the customer experience. Includes video of his talk.

One of the opening speakers at our 2025 “AI Build Day” event was Jen Stave, the Chief Operator at Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute. Video of her talk is available to InnoLead members, as are the slides in PPT form.

This webcast explores how how leading organizations can unlock growth by applying VC principles to their innovation strategy. Featuring Jonathan Livescault of ITONICS and Henry Deshays of Newfund.

his webcast offers a behind-the-scenes look at how ICL, one of the leading global manufacturers of speciality minerals and fertilizers, is redefining innovation management through its groundbreaking Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) program.

Replay of our May 2025 members’ meeting, featuring Curtis Michelson focusing on how to enhance prompt effectiveness and apply metaprompting.

This webcast replay features Kofi Gyasi of NotedSource and Dr. Anand Rao of Carnegie Mellon University discussing how Hybrid AI is redefining innovation.

Alex Slawsby delivers a March 2025 market intelligence briefing, with input from Allison Collings of NRG and Daniel Eckman from Yum Brands, as well as InnoLead co-founder and membership liaison Scott Cohen.

Disruption is no longer a future threat, but a present reality. In this webcast, Andrew Cantrell, Vice President of Applied Foresights at U.S. Bank, shares how his team filters signal from noise to anticipate change before it arrives. Alongside Greg Hackenberg of Speeda Edge, Cantrell reveals how structured foresight, innovation infrastructure, and timely IP strategy help U.S. Bank turn emerging trends into measurable advantage.

Innovation isn’t just about the next big thing — it’s about knowing when to hunt for the new and when to harvest what works. In this recent webcast, Trevor Anulewicz, Vice President, Strategy, Launch by NTT DATA, unpacks the timeless elements of innovation, from attracting creative minds to navigating the risk that comes with change.

How can innovators beat the odds and create more winners? Stuart Jackson and Ilya Trakhtenberg, co-authors of Predictable Winners, share strategies to improve success rates, avoid pitfalls, and manage uncertainty in this replay of our April 2025 members-only meeting.

This webcast explores the ways that companies are redefining customer relationships by focusing on collaborative innovation, rather than just selling. Featuring leaders from Dow Inc. and Innoisight.

Replay of our March 2025 members’ meeting, featuring Michael Hayes from PracticalAI talking about an array of AI assistants.

In an era of constant disruption and accelerating technological change, staying ahead means more than just spotting trends — it requires the ability to act on them. In this webcast, Gary Walia, Director of Grid of the Future at Southwire, and Jan Fischer, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Innosabi, explore how their collaboration enables Southwire to adapt faster, scale innovation, and maintain its leadership in the evolving energy sector.

This webcast replay features Jan Beranek, Founder of FifthRow, and serial entrepreneur Paul Campbell exploring real-world examples of businesses leveraging generative AI to drive creativity, streamline processes, and unlock new opportunities.

This webcast replay looks at data from the recent InnoLead research initiative “Making Innovation an Enduring Capability,” with insights from Ludwig Melik of HYPE Innovation and Gavin McClafferty of Subsea7, a subsea engineering, construction, and services company.

“We want to really figure out what are the big problems that are that are holding robots back. And believe me, robots are held back,” Marc Raibert said at Impact 2024. “They’re not the success that other technologies are yet.” Watch the video…

One of the things Weis discusses in this video from Impact 2024 is the relationship between the creative and design teams at Imagineering, and the operators who run Disney’s theme parks, hotels, and cruise ships.

Trevor Anulewicz of Launch by NTT DATA and Vito Mabrucco of NTT Corporation were featured mainstage speakers at this past fall’s Impact conference in Cambridge. They discussed the importance of differentiating invention from innovation.

“If innovation is about batting 100 percent, people aren’t going to innovate enough,” says Linda Jojo. Watch highlights from her conversation with Abbie Lundberg from the 2024 Impact conference.

For this ep, we looked at all of the AI tools that could possibly help us create a podcast episode — and then leveraged a handful to summarize some of our best content from 2024, and also hone in on some of the important dynamics that will impact corporate innovation work in 2025. 

This webcast reveals the inner workings of TD Bank’s human-centered design philosophy. Discover how TD’s inclusive, culture-first strategy, fueled by over 78,000 employee ideas, is redefining industry standards and democratizing innovation.

In this video, Curtis Michelson and Scott Kirsner explore the Gen AI Card Deck, and how it can be used by teams to think through Gen AI opportunities — and risks.

Video from a November 2024 InnoLead members’ meeting on artificial intelligence, led by Andy Lee, who runs the AI Accelerator at Indeed.

How can startups and large companies build new ventures better and faster using AI tools? In this webcast replay, Dave Blakely of Mach49 demonstrates how to accelerate customer research with synthetic personas identify customer pain-points and pain hypotheses with AI support; and visualize solutions using AI tools. He was joined by Intel’s Dror Sharon, an entrepreneur in residence who helps incubate new technologies.

In this short video, Alex Slawsby and Scott Kirsner of InnoLead share 10 takeaways from the Impact 2024 conference held in Boston. You can download the slides they share at the link below.

This webcast features three startups, Fly.io, Lightbend, and SiMa, providing an overview of their of their solutions to help enterprises create resilient, real-time, AI-centric applications.

In this podcast episode, we talk with Bob Weis, the former president of the legendary Imagineering division at Disney, and author of the new book “Dream Chasing: My Four Decades of Success and Failure with Walt Disney Imagineering.”

Forward-thinking companies are rediscovering the value of the “Spin-In” approach. Catch the replay of this webcast with Peer Insight.

This webcast features three startups, Augtera, Sightfull, and Zingly, providing an overview of their AI-centric business process optimization solutions.

Video and slides from an August 2024 InnoLead members’ meeting on artificial intelligence, led by Michael Hayes of PracticalAI.

As the ISO standards for innovation management begin to roll out, we wanted to bring together a group of innovation professionals to have a look at some them, and give some thought to whether they are useful to corporate innovators. Video inside…

In this episode, we connect with Dr. Sokwoo Rhee, EVP of Innovation at LG Electronics and Head of the LG Nova Innovation Center in Silicon Valley. Rhee shares his advice about making change happen in big organizations, including the government.

This webcast replay, from July 2024, features Jake Miller, CEO of Engineered Innovation Group. It goes beyond strategy and shows you how to deploy transformative AI-driven in regulated industries.

InnoLead CEO Scott Kirsner shares some data highlights from our latest research about budgets, staffing, metrics, outcomes delivered, and use of AI by innovation and R&D teams.

This session from our 2024 Leveraging AI event in Silicon Valley focused on the future of AI and automation, with speakers from Google, Amazon Web Services, and Robust.ai.

This session from our 2024 Leveraging AI event in Silicon Valley focused on the future of AI and automation, with speakers from Google, Amazon Web Services, and Robust.ai.

As part of our 2024 event, Leveraging AI, we curated a list of speakers who could share concrete ways their companies have begun experimenting with AI. This video features Dušan Vuksanovic, VP, Cyber Security + Innovation, Swisscom Outpost; Paul Konasewich, General Manager, PACCAR Innovation Center; Kinh Tieu, Senior Principal Engineer, Acubed (Airbus Innovation Center); and moderator Scott Cohen, Co-Founder, InnoLead.

As part of our 2024 event, Leveraging AI, we curated a list of speakers who could share concrete ways their companies have begun experimenting with AI. This video features Rahul Deshpande, EVP & Global Head of Research and Development at Mastercard.

As part of our 2024 event, Leveraging AI, we curated a list of speakers who could share concrete ways their companies have begun experimenting with AI. This video features John Sviokla, Co-Founder of GAI Insights and Abhi Yadav, Co-Founder, AI Innovators Community.

As part of our 2024 event, Leveraging AI, we curated a list of speakers who could share concrete ways their companies have begun experimenting with AI. This video features Gagan Kanjlia, Chief Product Officer at Silicon Valley Bank, and Scott Cohen, Co-Founder of InnoLead.

In this episode, we talk to Laura Northridge, Senior Director of the AI Innovation Lab at Harvard Business Publishing. As is the case with many corporate innovators, she’s helping shape AI strategy and policy for the Boston-based nonprofit, an affiliate of Harvard Business School. It’s one of small number of organizations we’ve been tracking where the innovation lab shifted its focus entirely to AI earlier in 2024.

This webcast features two startups, Endor Labs and OpsMx, providing an overview of their cybersecurity offerings.

In this episode, we talk with Steve Blank about why celebrating innovation heroes is symptomatic of a problem in large organizations. Blank also talks about the significance of AI: “I think this is as important as anything we’ve seen in tech in probably the last 50 years.”

If the ISO 56000 Standard for Innovation Management Systems is new to you, then this webcast will get you up to speed. Embark on an odyssey through the United Nations’ latest innovation initiative, UN 2.0, and discover the potential of this universally recognized standard.

Slides and video from a June 2024 presentation by Alex Slawsby and Scott Kirsner of InnoLead, covering recent data on how generative AI is impacting corporate innovation work, along with recommendations for what large organizations should be doing.

In this episode, we connect with James Liu, the Head of MB.OS Customer Experience at Mercedes-Benz. Liu oversees a team responsible for human-machine Interface concepts, UX design, front-end engineering, speech, and AI platforms. That includes prototypes that leverage generative AI technologies like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion.

This webcast features three startups providing an overview of their generative AI solutions, followed by discussion about deployment best practices.

Artificial intelligence is the shiny new object poised to accelerate the “front end of innovation” process. A critical success factor in delivering real value, however, is a robust “back end of innovation” process. Catch the webcast replay or summary…

Corporations are better managed than ever, but they’re also less capable of delivering the breakthroughs that change our world for the better. They are too often focused on efficiency instead of resiliency. Their focus on capital efficiency leads them to engage in an illusion of innovation: activity that feels like innovation but leads to value destruction and stasis, not creation and progress. Elliott Parker of High Alpha Innovation offers an antidote in this webcast replay.

Evangelos Simoudis, author and investor, delves into the future of cars, what has happened to Silicon Valley innovation labs, and the latest “AI spring.”

The majority of corporate innovation leaders and teams have begun to experiment with generative AI – and realize its potential. This webcast featured Jan Beránek, Group CEO of U+ and Founder of FifthRow, discussing how generative AI is already dramatically transforming corporate innovation.

In this podcast episode, we talk with Starbucks veteran Mesh Gelman about coffee trends; developing a new product from scratch; the difference between big organizations and start-ups; and his past work as an innovation consultant.

If you’re chartered with “innovation beyond the core,” it’s crucial that you deliver quick wins…right now…to protect your senior leadership support and budget. This webcast with Disruptive Edge lays out how to do that.

If you’re chartered with “innovation beyond the core,” it’s crucial that you deliver quick wins…right now…to protect your senior leadership support and budget. This webcast with Disruptive Edge lays out how to do that.

This recent Master Class featured Jon Corshen, Founder of Pilot44, sharing the core principles of new venture building models.

If you’ve ever talked about a technology “crossing the chasm” from the realm of early adopters into the early majority, or your company has put a high-potential project into “the incubation zone,” you’ve been using language given to us by Geoffrey Moore. He joins us to talk about generative AI, AR, VR, and more.

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…

We don’t usually record our InnoLead members-only meetings, but this one is an exception: André Zdanow of GE Appliances talks about their journey with open innovation and crowdfunding. Leaders from NASA and AstraZeneca ask questions and share their experiences.

Tye Brady, the Chief Technologist at Amazon Robotics, joined us at Impact 2023 to share his take on the future of robotics, AI, and automation.

Featuring Rich Gotham, Team President of the Boston Celtics; John Murray, President & CEO of Sonesta International Hotels Corporation; and Shira Goodman, a Board Member at CarMax, CBRE, Henry Schein.

In early 2024, we organized a series of InnoLead member meetings to experiment with new Gen AI tools applicable to various stages of innovation. This page collects video replays of that series, as well as related resources.

“No.” In regulated industries, there are a lot of well-paid people in legal, compliance, and risk roles who are very good at saying that word. Dan Seewald, the former Head of Worldwide Innovation at Pfizer, compares them to goalies on a soccer pitch: They “don’t get rewarded for scoring that many goals,” but rather they […]

In this short video, Elliott Parker of High Alpha Innovation explains what a venture studio is; various structures; and how to measure success.

Paul Baier, CEO, and co-founder of GAI Insights, answers questions about the shifts in corporate structures, the challenges faced by leaders, the fascinating use cases that are reshaping industries, and more.

One of NASA’s top advisors on artificial intelligence and innovation, Omar Hatamleh, joined InnoLead on stage at the Impact conference last fall. In an interview with Joyce Sidopoulos, Co-Founder of Mass Robotics, Hatamleh discussed what NASA is doing today, and how AI may evolve and change society.

Act One of corporate innovation is over, says Todd Dunn. What happened? “Many organizations have not developed innovation as a strategic and ongoing source of competitive advantage,” he writes in a recent LinkedIn piece.

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.

It has been one year since the launch of ChatGPT — and since then, we’ve seen a Cambrian explosion of new AI tools and platforms. How will AI remake corporate innovation in 2024? InnoLead convened a group of experts to discuss.

We love to use metaphors to help think through some of the toughest topics that corporate change-makers encounter. Here are three short animations, created by Lisa Rothstein of Drawing Out Your Genius, that we created in 2023 to promote a session at our Impact conference on creating visual metaphors for common innovation challenges.

In this video, Rachel Gordon of the consultancy Triple Agent joins Alex Slawsby and Scott Kirsner of InnoLead to wrap up 2023 — and talk about how AI will change the job of corporate innovators in 2024.

In this short video, Innosight partner Ned Calder shares advice about how leaders should be approaching opportunities, risks, and organizational change dynamics related to artificial intelligence.

This November 2023 webcast replay covers what companies should be doing with regard to generative AI. Presenter Elliott Parker of High Alpha Innovation called generative AI a “clasically disruptive technology” — something that makes things that were previously difficult or expensive accessible to the masses. “It’s going to create massive opportunities,” Parker said.

This October 2023 webcast replay covers what people are currently getting wrong when it comes to innovation metrics, how to put it right (including how best to answer that thorny ROI question), and why innovation data you can trust is so critical in today’s dynamic business environment.

InnoLead CEO Scott Kirsner shares some data highlights from our latest research about how large organizations search for relevant partners outside their walls.

In this short video, Professor of Innovation Management Gina O’Connor serves up advice about creating a solid foundation for an innovation program.

In this short video, Professor of Innovation Management Gina O’Connor shares her advice on overcoming the challenges of measuring innovation outcomes.

In this short video, Professor of Innovation Management Gina O’Connor describes the three tiers of necessary innovation metrics.

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.

Watch as Sean Sheppard and Jan Beranek of U+ discuss use cases for generative AI in innovation process; share insights on the prompt to give you better productivity; and more.

Impact is our biggest gathering of the year, and it’s coming up October 25-27, 2023. This video offers an update on some of the sessions you’ll be able to experience at the event.

Watch as Paul Heller and Mike Bauer of Sopheon discuss why the importance of a proper innovation management strategy could lead to better growth in our recent webcast.

Tune in to see Tony Ulwick, Founder of Strategyn, and Dominick Bizzarro, Chief Growth Officer of MVP Health Care, share why your organization may not be as customer centric as you think — and how to create value that matters to your customers.

In this short video, InnoLead Assistant Editor Meghan Hall shares data from our latest research about healthy innovation portfolios.

David Matheson of SmartOrg and Udi Chatow of Applied Materials explain the sure-fire ways innovators can get better internal buy-in for transformational initiatives in a recent webcast.

Watch as Kathryn Scheckel of Hines Global Ventures and Mark Simoncelli of Mach49 discuss the process of building new ventures; address the challenges associated with that; and consider customer-centricity as they navigate building new ventures.

Sim Kahlon, Director of Innovation at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, explains how the company used artificial intelligence to speed up prior authorizations in healthcare.

As part of our recent event, Leveraging AI in Business, Chandra Ganduri, Director of Data Science & ML at Wayfair, and Vaidy Raghavan, Director of Technology at Wayfair, explained how the company uses artificial intelligence to help map the customer journey and enhance the experience of a consumer.

Watch a replay of our recent webcast, where Marianna Canino of Wazoku gave insights on the importance of diverse thought, shared insights on measurement and metrics, and outlined innovation methodologies to help teams reach success.

Tim Miano, Executive Director of MIT’s Office of Innovation, spoke at our recent Leveraging AI in Business event about the rapid pace of change in technologies; the impacts AI could have on various fields; and the talent needed to support emerging tech trends.

Deborah DiSanzo, President of Best Buy Health, shares her thoughts on how artificial intelligence will affect patients and healthcare professionals; gives commentary on ChatGPT; and more.

Jeremy Brown, CEO of Sense Worldwide, Adam Kitt, R&D Manager at Sense Worldwide, and Ed Essey, Director of Business Value at Microsoft Garage, share the importance of cognitive diversity for breakthrough innovation in our recent webcast.

InnoLead’s Scott Kirsner talks with Sandra Loughlin, the Chief Learning Scientist at EPAM, about how individuals and organizations should think about developing new skills — and dealing with anxieties — related to the coming AI era.

Catch a replay of our recent webcast with Planbox and the Ministry of Health Ontario, where speakers focused on the importance of a healthy innovation management platform and strategy and highlighted the opportunity space of using ISO 56002 to get there.

Watch the replay of our recent webcast with Kes Sampanthar, Managing Director of BCG BrightHouse. Sampanthar shared why organizations should be integrating purpose at a deep level, discussed emerging technologies and their impacts on business, and more.

As part of our bonus series, “A Beginner’s Guide,” we caught up with experts on design thinking from Harvard, BCG BrightHouse, and Blue Origin, who shared what design thinking is, the biggest mistakes innovators make with the framework, and more.

In this short video, InnoLead Assistant Editor Meghan Hall shares data from our latest research about job-hopping, and what keeps people loyal to their current employer.

Watch the replay of our webcast with EPAM Continuum’s Toby Bottorf. Bottorf shared insights on building better business cases, and on internal priority-setting for better alignment.

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.

In this short video, Fiona Murray of MIT and Scott Anthony of Dartmouth lay out clear definitions of the word “innovation.”

In this short video, Alex Slawsby of InnoLead, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, and Fiona Murray of MIT lay out clear definitions of the term “incremental innovation.”

In this short video, Alex Slawsby of InnoLead, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, and Fiona Murray of MIT lay out clear definitions of the term “adjacent innovation.”

In this short video, Alex Slawsby of InnoLead, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, and Fiona Murray of MIT lay out clear definitions of the term “transformational innovation.” “Transformational… is saying that we are simultaneously playing with all of [the] levers: we’re thinking about a different job to be done, we might be thinking about a […]

In this short video, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, Fiona Murray of MIT, and Alex Slawsby of InnoLead talk about disruptive innovation — including how the term is often overused.

In this short video, Alex Slawsby of InnoLead, Scott Anthony of Dartmouth College, and Fiona Murray of MIT discuss the “three horizons” concept (sometimes referred to as H1, H2, H3), and how it relates to incremental, adjacent, and transformational innovation.