All Data & Templates

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...
Resource Scorecard: Create a Baseline Set of Innovation Metrics for Your Org
August 23, 2022
This spreadsheet, created with input from a group of a dozen corporate innovators at a recent event, encourages you to focus in on the areas of measurement that matter most to your executive sponsors, and will help you assign a score to each of those areas. The spreadsheet also gives...
Resource Data on Sustainability and ESG Initiatives
August 18, 2022
How are companies setting, communicating, and pursuing goals related to sustainability and sustainable development? Here’s survey data from mid-2022.
Article Data: How Large Organizations Set and Communicate Sustainability Goals
August 16, 2022 | By Kate Katz, Meghan Hall
Our latest survey on sustainability yielded some interesting results on how organizations measure sustainability, who’s involved in setting and achieving goals, and progress made so far. This is part of our sustainability series, underwritten by our partners at Planbox.
Resource Pitch Deck: Designing a Corporate Venturing/Startup Engagement Strategy
July 18, 2022
Created inside a publicly-traded insurance firm, this PowerPoint deck makes the case for committing resources to the startup ecosystem, venture funds, accelerators, and universities.
Resource List of Small Innovation Consulting Firms, Workshop Leaders, and Speakers
May 27, 2022
Here’s our list of 65+ small innovation consulting practices that do everything from facilitate design sprints to train innovation catalysts to assess innovation maturity. They have experience working at firms like UnitedHealthCare, Clorox, Nike, the Gap, Transmerica, Starbucks, Pepsico, Lululemon, and Pfizer. And they’re based in the US, Australia, Canada,...
Resource SAIC: Accelerating ROI by De-Risking Investments
March 13, 2022
Single PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.
Resource Data on Open Innovation Usage
February 22, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
How often do companies source ideas externally — from customers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics? Explore this data visualization to find out.
Resource Data on Outcomes Senior Leaders Expect from R&D Groups
February 18, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows the outcomes that senior leaders expect from R&D groups, sortable by industry.
Resource Data on Why Organizations Kill Emerging Technology Projects
February 1, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows the reasons why innovative organizations sometimes want to abandon new technology opportunities.
Resource Data on How Organizations Identify Important Emerging Technologies
February 1, 2022 | By Alexander MacDougall
This data visualization shows the methods in which innovative organizations look for and identify new emerging tech.
Resource PTC: Comic Book About Augmented Reality
February 1, 2022
This comic book lays out how augmented reality may be used in the workplace — both on tablets and on glasses. Shows how future visions can be communicated, outside the realm of PowerPoint.
Resource Data on Organizational Support for R&D and Innovation
January 27, 2022 | 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.
Resource Clearly Defining Your Innovation Strategy, Vision, and Mission
January 23, 2022
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.
Resource Idea Canvas for Evaluating and Testing New Ideas
January 20, 2022
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...
Resource Clorox: How are You Investing in Open Innovation (Includes ‘100 Pennies’ Exercise)
January 19, 2022
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?
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 Data on How Corporates Interact with Startups, by Experience Level
September 20, 2021
What resources do other corporates have in place for interacting with the startup ecosystem? What do they find most challenging? Explore the answers in these five data visualizations.
Resource Data on Tactics That Support a Culture of Innovation, by Industry
August 9, 2021
What tactics do corporate innovators feel create and support a culture of innovation? We asked that question in a recent survey, and here’s the data, sortable by industry.
Resource Data on Innovation Obstacles and Enablers, by Industry
August 3, 2021
What are the blockers that stand in the way of innovation progress — or the things that enable it? Here’s data to answer those two questions…

VIEW ALL OF OUR PARTNERS