All articles by Alex Slawsby

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  ArticleStrong 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...
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  ArticleWhat 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.
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  ArticleOrganizational 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.
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  ArticleNew 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...
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  ArticleHow 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.
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  ArticleHow 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....
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  ArticleHow 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...
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  VideoHow 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.
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  VideoHow 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.
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  ArticleThe First 5 Things to Do When You’re Given Responsibility for Corporate Innovation

  January 6, 2020 | By Alex Slawsby

  There are major risks of failure that surround every new innovation program. But there are also ”clear steps that innovation leaders can take to mitigate these risks, while increasing the likelihood that they can generate a concrete ROI for their company,” writes Alex Slawsby, a Director of Innovation at the Brazilian aerospace...