Data, Templates, and Resource Library

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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SAIC: Accelerating ROI by De-Risking Investments

By SAIC

Single PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.

Data on Open Innovation Usage

By Alexander MacDougall

How often do companies source ideas externally — from customers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics? Explore this data visualization to find out.

Data on Outcomes Senior Leaders Expect from R&D Groups

By Alexander MacDougall

This data visualization shows the outcomes that senior leaders expect from R&D groups, sortable by industry.

Culture, Personnel, and Org Structure

The Role of Design and UX on an Innovation Team

By Mark Faga

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.

Microsoft: DevDiv Culture, Values & Behaviors

By Microsoft

A presentation that reviews the company’s cultural values and behaviors as discovered at a recent “DevDiv” (Developer Division) event.

BAE Systems: Grassroots Innovation and Senior Leadership, Tying it all Together

By BAE Systems

How the aerospace and defense company bridges the gap between what senior leadership wants and how the company executes grassroots innovation.

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Events, Contests, and Competitions

Caliber Public Safety: Hackathon Flyer

By Caliber Public Safety

Hackathon overview, definition, and agenda, from a technology solutions company.

Boeing: Innovation Day Pitch Deck

By Boeing

A slide deck template for participants in Boeing’s Innovation Day competition.

Harris Computer: The Innovator’s Voice

By Harris Computer

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.

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Frameworks & Models

SAIC: Accelerating ROI by De-Risking Investments

By SAIC

Single PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.

Matrix: Should You Watch, or Experiment With, an Emerging Technology

By Anonymous

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?

Dunkin’ Brands: What Happens in an Internet Minute?

By Dunkin' Brands

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.

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Innovation Leader Resources

Data on Open Innovation Usage

By Alexander MacDougall

How often do companies source ideas externally — from customers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics? Explore this data visualization to find out.

Data on Outcomes Senior Leaders Expect from R&D Groups

By Alexander MacDougall

This data visualization shows the outcomes that senior leaders expect from R&D groups, sortable by industry.

Data on Organizational Support for R&D and Innovation

By Alexander MacDougall

This data visualization shows how much support R&D and innovation-oriented groups receive from other parts of the company, and from specific executives.

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Job Descriptions

Citigroup: Startup Coach Job Description

By Citigroup

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 ...

Disney: Director of Technologies, Innovation Enablement

By Disney

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.”

ECMC Group: Director of Innovation Job Description

By ECMC

A short description outlining the responsibilities of the director of innovation at ECMC Group, one of 35 Federal Family Education Loan Program Guarantors.

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Labs & Centers

Gensler: Everything You’d Ever Want (or Never Want) in an Innovation Hub

By Gensler

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.

BNY Mellon: Global Innovation Centers Overview

By BNY Mellon

Short overview of BNY Mellon’s network of innovation centers, their approach, and focus.

Bayer: Life Science iHub Overview

By Bayer

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.

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Metrics & Scorecards

Suggested Metrics for Your Innovation Portfolio

By Target Corp.

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.

Intel: Corporate Innovation Program Metrics

By Intel

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.

CSAA Insurance: Measuring Insight & Innovation

By CSAA Insurance Group

How the California-based insurer CSAA measures its innovation efforts, including a scorecard, key drivers, and a maturity model.

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Processes & Methodologies

Idea Canvas for Evaluating and Testing New Ideas

By Eric Braun, formerly at Retail Business Services and Intralinks

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.

Clorox: How are You Investing in Open Innovation (Includes ‘100 Pennies’ Exercise)

By Clorox

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?

Overview of the Lean Startup Approach to Innovation

By Alexandru Darie

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.

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Strategy Presentations

Clearly Defining Your Innovation Strategy, Vision, and Mission

By Anonymous

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.

Medtronic: Meaningful Innovation Brief

By Medtronic

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.”

Exelon: Driving a Culture of Innovation

By Exelon

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.

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