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Here you’ll find actual documents used by our members — including templates, spreadsheets, powerpoint slides, project documents, and more — from innovation executives at large companies like Coca-Cola, Target, Intel, Disney, Marriott, Nike, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and many others. Choose the category "Innovation Leader Resources" to see those created by Innovation Leader, in collaboration with former executives at Pfizer, Transamerica, Keurig Dr Pepper, VMware, BNY Mellon, and other companies. That category also includes data visualizations from many of our recent research reports.
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search nowSingle PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.
How often do companies source ideas externally — from customers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics? Explore this data visualization to find out.
This data visualization shows the outcomes that senior leaders expect from R&D groups, sortable by industry.
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.
A presentation that reviews the company’s cultural values and behaviors as discovered at a recent “DevDiv” (Developer Division) event.
How the aerospace and defense company bridges the gap between what senior leadership wants and how the company executes grassroots innovation.
Hackathon overview, definition, and agenda, from a technology solutions company.
A slide deck template for participants in Boeing’s Innovation Day competition.
A guide to Harris Computer's “Innovator’s Voice Competition,” which enables individuals and teams to spend some of their time innovating and creating new, novel products and services for customers. Harris develops mission critical software applications for the public sector, healthcare, utilities and private sector verticals.
Single PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.
Submitted anonymously in 2021, this slide looks at how one organization thinks about important and not (yet) important emerging technologies. How would you fill out this matrix for your organization today? Does everyone agree?
Why do you need to move fast? This graphic lays out all of the things that happen on the Internet every minute, from Amazon sales to Netflix movies viewed.
How often do companies source ideas externally — from customers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics? Explore this data visualization to find out.
This data visualization shows the outcomes that senior leaders expect from R&D groups, sortable by industry.
This data visualization shows how much support R&D and innovation-oriented groups receive from other parts of the company, and from specific executives.
Job description for a Singapore-based position at Citi Ventures — a D10X Startup Coach and Entrepreneur-in-Residence who will play “a critical role in the D10X program by helping the D10X startup teams keep their ‘eye on the prize’, providing an outside-in perspective, staying true to the D10X process and generally ...
Job description for a role at Disney that will “be responsible for establishing this new function through the development of strategies for the Emerging Technologies portfolio, and facilitating the delivery of innovative projects from ideation through implementation.”
A short description outlining the responsibilities of the director of innovation at ECMC Group, one of 35 Federal Family Education Loan Program Guarantors.
An innovation hub is a distinct environment strategically designed and actively nurtured to promote a way of working that is fundamentally different from an organization’s norm. (Some call them labs, centers, accelerators, or incubators.) But not all innovation hubs are created equal. Innovation Leader and Gensler, the design and architecture firm, teamed up to create an illustrated guide to innovation hubs — the good and the bad.
Short overview of BNY Mellon’s network of innovation centers, their approach, and focus.
An overview and photos of Bayer's Life Science iHub center and team, focused on digital technologies. The iHub's competencies include sensors, machine learning, app development, and business model innovation.
Created by Ravi Kanniganti of Target Corp. to accompany an article on metrics, this PDF lays out ways to track the health of an innovation portfolio; pilot tests run with startups; intrapreneurial projects; and more.
A succinct one-page guide to creating metrics for various aspects of a corporate innovation program, from process to people to customer development to decision-making.
How the California-based insurer CSAA measures its innovation efforts, including a scorecard, key drivers, and a maturity model.
Adapted from the Business Model Canvas to better fit the needs of the corporate world, this Idea Canvas allows you to follow a high-level scientific process when evaluating ideas and then use the criteria from the Idea Canvas when testing or validating that idea. Developed by a Senior Director working in the retail industry.
An exercise to do with colleagues: If you were given 100 pennies to invest in different open innovation partners, like small suppliers, universities, startups, etc., where are you investing resources and time today? Where is innovation actually coming from? What should you do differently?
Deck from 2019 providing a thorough overview of the lean startup methodology, along with many helpful templates. Used inside a manufacturing company to help guide the development of mobile apps, as well as hardware, IoT connected products, and research initiatives.
This short PowerPoint deck, developed inside a publicly-traded manufacturing company, was created to make sure that everyone is on the same page with the “What, Where, When, Why, How” of innovation. It includes explainer slides with annotations, followed by slides that can be easily adapted for use with your company.
Short overview of how the medical device maker defines “meaningful innovation,” along with some examples of successful projects. Breaks innovation down into “therapy innovation,” “system innovation,” and ”procedural innovation.”
Overview of trends and digital transformation strategy at the $33.5 billion energy company — as well as the challenges of pursuing innovation in the nuclear power industry.
Adapted from the Business Model Canvas to better fit the needs of the corporate world, this Idea Canvas allows you to follow a high-level scientific process when evaluating ideas and then use the criteria from the Idea Canvas when testing or validating that idea. Developed by a Senior Director working in the retail industry.
Lots of definitions and templates related to the project management process at WD-40.
Form for submitting ideas for projects to the innovation team at the student loan company ECMC. Includes definition of an “ideal project” — as well as what is less than ideal.