All articles by Alex Slawsby

Video Market Intelligence Briefing: H1 2025
May 6, 2025 | By Alex Slawsby
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.
Article Strong on Skills, Weak on Strategy: 5 Data Insights from Our Innovation Maturity Model
October 6, 2022 | By Alex Slawsby
In February 2021, we launch our Innovation Maturity Model assessment, to help our members understand where, maturity wise, their organizations fit on a five-tier spectrum. Alex Slawsby, our Chief Growth Officer, analyzed the trends from the data we’ve captured so far to share insights on what organizations are doing well...
Article What to Know About Innovation Software
January 23, 2024 | By Alex Slawsby
This article explores how the usage of software by innovation groups is changing in 2024. It looks at two categories — mainstream productivity applications and innovation management software — and raises questions about how generative AI will change them.
Article Organizational Generative AI Readiness Assessment
December 1, 2023 | By Alex Slawsby
Is your organization moving beyond talk toward action when it comes to generative AI tools and use cases? This 10-question assessment will give you an instant readiness readout — from minimal to moderate to complete readiness.
Article New Data on Generative AI Budgets, Challenges, Use Cases, and Impact on Innovation
June 13, 2024 | By Alex Slawsby
Two sessions at a recent conference in Boston explored the ways that generative AI is changing — and may continue to change — innovation work inside large organizations. Here are seven key takeaways...
Article How to Use ChatGPT as a Tool for Innovation
March 7, 2023 | By Alex Slawsby
We’ve been talking to corporate leaders about their use of ChatGPT, and doing some experimenting ourselves, and put together this short guide to how to get value from it today as part of your insights, analysis, and front-end innovation work.
Article How AI Will Alter the Innovation Role
November 7, 2023 | By Alex Slawsby
Generative AI-based tools are going to radically reshape how corporations generate growth — whether that growth is linked to the core business, or to further-out adjacent and transformational opportunities. Here's what that means for corporate innovators....
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 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.
Video How Executives Should Lead into the Age of AI
December 11, 2023 | By Alex Slawsby
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.