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Resource Boeing Internal Innovation Communications
July 29, 2025
How do you effectively communicate innovations to an employee base that spans 170,000 employees in 65 countries around the world? At Boeing, the answer lies in an internal innovation newsletter called “Innovation Quarterly.”
Article Analyzing the Three-Year Rise and Fall of Corporate Innovation Efforts
February 24, 2025 | By Robyn Bolton, Founder & Chief Navigator, MileZero
The ABCs of Innovation gives you a map to make innovation last beyond the three-year mark, writes Robyn Bolton in her new book, Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide for Turning Bold Ideas into Tangible Results. The three elements, Behavior, Architecture, and Culture, must be built and nurtured in tandem to...
Resource Options for Innovation Org Structure, Process, and Measurement
July 21, 2022
Created inside publicly-traded companies, this PowerPoint deck lays out various options for setting up innovation organizations; defining roles; creating processes and pipelines for moving projects forward; and measuring outcomes.
Resource The Role of Design and UX on an Innovation Team
January 7, 2022
Five-page PowerPoint document created to help an innovation group define roles related to design, including UX (user experience), and assess the skill sets of individuals.
Resource Microsoft: DevDiv Culture, Values & Behaviors
May 1, 2017
A presentation that reviews the company’s cultural values and behaviors as discovered at a recent “DevDiv” (Developer Division) event.
Resource BAE Systems: Grassroots Innovation and Senior Leadership, Tying it all Together
May 1, 2017
How the aerospace and defense company bridges the gap between what senior leadership wants and how the company executes grassroots innovation.
Resource American Family Insurance: Innovation Org Design
May 1, 2017
A flow-chart of the insurance company’s innovation organization.
Resource HCA Healthcare: Assembling & Empowering the Teams
May 1, 2017
One-page chart focused on answering the question “What’s a Win?” for various groups at the hospital operator that touch innovation.
Resource Attributes of Innovators
April 28, 2017
An interesting one-page chart for assessing innovation potential in an employee or potential new hire. Submitted anonymously.
Resource Vodafone: The Catalyst for Change
November 9, 2016
Overview of the innovation program at the British telecommunications company, with a special focus on how they created a global network of innovation champions; the impact so far; and best practices in setting up a similar champion network. Includes a chart summarizing comments from the employees who have participated.
Resource W.L. Gore: Innovator Competencies
April 5, 2016
A one-page outlining the competencies required for innovation — including technical knowledge, disciplined execution, and others. From the Delaware-based materials company W.L. Gore & Associates.
Resource Mercer: Internal Innovation Newsletter
April 5, 2016
A newsletter designed to inform the company’s workforce of innovation efforts, including how to work with the team and soliciting people to participate in innovation workshops. Mercer is a human resources consulting firm.
Resource Intel: Work Practices Innovation Team
April 5, 2016
A one-page outline of the goals, challenges, and guiding principles for the chipmaker’s Work Practices Innovation Team.
Resource HCA Healthcare: InnovationLink Site Overview
April 5, 2016
An overview of the company’s “InnovationLink,” a web site open to all full-time employees that allows them to post, search, find and collaborate on projects and ideas that address their problems. HCA operates hospitals, clinics, and surgical centers and is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn.
Resource ExxonMobil: #Innovation Team Roles
April 5, 2016
A one-page outline of the roles on the energy company’s “#innovation” team, including roles geared to strategy, catalysts, and franchisees.
Resource CSAA Insurance: The Defining Characteristics of a Culture of Innovation
April 5, 2016
A 41-page PDF document outlining the California-based insurance company’s thoughts on the defining characterstics of an innovative culture, and how they hope to achieve that goal.
Resource ExxonMobil: Grassroots Innovation Forum
February 21, 2016
Overview of how Houston-based ExxonMobil created an online “virtual café” where company IT employees can share ideas for improvements and cost-savings, and get funding and mentoring to move them forward.
Resource Snap-on Tools: Building a Culture of Innovation — Process or People?
December 15, 2015
A twenty-six slide overview of Chief Innovation Officer Ben Brenton’s approach, with a special focus on “driving innovation through customer connection” at the publicly-traded tool manufacturer.
Resource Sealed Air Corp.: Cultivating a Culture of Innovation
December 5, 2015
A manifesto outlining the packaging company’s culture of innovation.
Resource Liberty Mutual: Org Chart
December 5, 2015
A one-page view of the insurance firm’s innovation organization within its personal insurance division.