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Resource RASCI Matrix: For Clarifying Roles & Building Support for Projects
April 18, 2017
A RASCI matrix is a tool that can be used to build consistent support for innovation, while mitigating against common failure modes like role ambiguity, when people aren’t sure what exactly they’re supposed to do — or want to weigh in more than you’d like. This downloadable Excel spreadsheet is...
Resource Dealing With Failure
April 13, 2017
The best organizations in the world will experience failure — they expect it. And they are ready to learn from it. Here’s some advice from Julia Austin, CTO of DigitalOcean and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, about dealing with failure.
Resource Optum: Startups and Innovation
April 5, 2017
A look at the company’s approach to working with startups, told with a humorous “pac-man”-style narrative. Optum is a healthcare services company that is part of UnitedHealth Group.
Resource Staples: Applied Innovation Overview
April 5, 2017
A structured framework of the retailer’s Applied Innovation program, guided by senior leaders.
Resource Survey Questions on Innovation Culture
April 4, 2017
Are you looking for a way to understand whether your company’s innovation culture is improving, staying the same, or getting worse? R&D and innovation executives share with us the questions they’ve used as part of quarterly or annual surveys to “take the temperature” of the organization.
Resource Reliance Industries: Innovation at Reliance
March 21, 2017
Overview of the innovation programs at the $43 billion Indian conglomerate. Includes seven innovation habits, and a slide about the company’s “innovation DNA.”
Resource Corporate Innovation Roadmap
February 28, 2017
Getting consensus to launch a new innovation initiative can require tremendous time and energy. We put together this two-page roadmap/worksheet to help you think through some of the elements you’ll need to put in place to ensure that projects make it to the finish line, and that you can build...
Resource Ties Between Innovation & Business Units
January 28, 2017
Survey data from 2017 on the relationship between innovation/R&D groups and the business units, including who supplies funding, who sets the agenda, and how well the hand-off works.
Resource The Innovation Imperative
January 17, 2017
Ideal for someone just getting started in an innovation role, making the case for sufficient resources, or working to get a program off the ground. This presentation collects some of the best advice we’ve heard on getting an initiative going; some of the choices that you’ll face; some of our...
Resource 2015 Innovation Benchmarking Report
January 16, 2017
Highlights from our 2015 Benchmarking Report, produced in collaboration with Innosight. Includes data on program focus, maturity stage, team size, tools being used, why projects get killed, and more.
Resource Best & Worst Practices in Measuring Innovation
January 16, 2017
Presentation from Front End of Innovation 2015 covering some of the ways companies do (and should) track innovation — and where metrics are headed.
Resource Getting Connected Products Right
January 16, 2017
Highlights from our 2016 Connected Products Survey, emphasizing investment levels, challenges, and success factors. Produced in collaboration with Altitude.
Resource Innovation Process, Culture & Strategy at 3M
December 5, 2016
48-page slide deck covering the seven elements of innovation; the innovation process at 3M; and strategy and areas of interest at 3M’s Corporate Research Materials Laboratory. From 2010.
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 Honda: Driving Open Innovation
September 24, 2016
How Honda’s Silicon Valley Lab is engaging with startups, including providing test vehicles, funding, mentorship, and collaborative workspace.
Resource Sherwin-Williams: How Our Global External Innovation Team Works
July 26, 2016
How the open innovation team at Sherwin-Williams, the paint and coatings giant, scouts new technologies in academia and the startup world; evaluates promising technologies; and forges partnerships.
Resource Lean Startup in Large Organizations
June 28, 2016
Overview of the results from our May 2016 survey on how the lean startup methodology is being used in large companies, including benefits and challenges; software being used and training programs being run; key allies and supporters to cultivate; and general advice.
Resource Tata Communications: Innovation Engine
April 25, 2016
Overview of the challenges facing the $3 billion Indian telecom firm, and the “Shape the Future” program that Tata runs to solicit and cultivate employee ideas. Program includes an “immersion week” in Silicon Valley.
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 Viacom18: The ‘Big Belly’ Innovation Portal
April 5, 2016
A document outlining how the Indian media company company implemented an idea management system, including vendor selection, promotion to employees, outcomes, and future challenges.