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Resource Suggested Metrics for Your Innovation Portfolio
November 10, 2020
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.
Resource Bosch: How We Set Up an Innovation Pipeline
October 25, 2019
Presentation from the German engineering and tech company Robert Bosch GmbH on some of the dynamics that make innovation challenging in established companies, and how the company created an accelerator program that enables employees to form teams and validate opportunities. The accelerator “enables evidence-based investment decisions” and has significantly reduced...
Article Foundations Day 4: What Does Your “Influence Chart” Look Like?
January 30, 2019 | By Kelsey Alpaio
If you’ve got a whiteboard or a piece of paper handy, who are the 3-6 key influencers you need a constructive relationship with? Find out what your influence chart looks like in this video.
Article Foundations Day 2: Understanding C-Level Executives
January 30, 2019 | By Kelsey Alpaio
Leonard Schlesinger of Harvard Business School discusses how CEOs think about Box 1, Box 2, and Box 3 innovation — and offers advice for innovation leaders working with their CEOs.
Resource Home Depot: Building the Culture of Design Thinking
December 10, 2018
The Design Sprint framework is a problem-solving methodology used to identify, understand, and validate business opportunities. Download this short presentation on Home Depot practices design thinking.
Resource Six Steps to Strong Relationships with Colleagues in Legal, Compliance, and InfoSec
November 30, 2018
This worksheet highlights the six steps of creating productive working relationships with your legal, compliance, and information security departments, and invites you to evaluate and continually update your status. Where do you stand on each step?
Resource XRC Labs: The Right (and Wrong) Ways to Engage with Accelerator Programs
October 25, 2018
Presentation given by Pano Anthos of XRC Labs at Impact 2018 on the right and wrong ways for corporates to engage with accelerator programs. Includes a slide outlining the signs or hallmarks that a corporate culture has set up the proper structure for working with startup companies.
Resource Org Charts for Innovation Groups
August 24, 2018
There are two ways to set up and structure innovation teams, and both approaches have benefits and drawbacks. In this two-page PDF resource, a former VP of Product Management and Innovation outlines the pros and cons of each scenario.
Resource Piloting and Scaling New Ideas in Healthcare: Challenges and Advice
April 30, 2018
These slides were presented as part of an April 2018 webcast on sourcing, piloting, and scaling new ideas that is also available on InnoLead. You can register for upcoming InnoLead live calls here.
Resource How Startups Can Work With Our Company
March 28, 2018
A single slide that provides a template for explaining to startups, venture capitalists, accelerators, etc. how your company wants to work with them and who the key point of contact is.
Resource What People Hear When the CEO Says ‘Innovate!’
February 23, 2018
What do the different groups think when the CEO announces the company will be more innovative? This resource can help different groups understand a definition of innovation which is accessible.
Resource Scouting: Key Questions, Participants, Indicators of Success
February 14, 2018
The goal of this editable worksheet is to help you think through some of the key questions, participants, risks, and indicators of success when you are setting up or seeking to improve a scouting operation. This worksheet is a component of our 2017 research report, “Scouting Trends & Emerging Tech,”...
Resource Best Practices in Scouting Trends and Emerging Tech
February 5, 2018
Survey data from 2017 on how large organizations structure their scouting activities, and some of the challenges they encounter. These slides were presented as part of a February 2018 webcast on scouting that is also available on InnoLead.
Resource List of Corporate-Supported Startup Accelerators
January 12, 2018
A spreadsheet describing 25 startup accelerators either run by corporations or with substantial corporate involvement, across industries like aerospace, retail, and tech. Includes a shorter list of corporate accelerators that are defunct or on hiatus.
Resource Home Depot: Actual Intelligence Built on A.I.
January 7, 2018
Overview of how Home Depot is approaching artificial intelligence, given the complexity of many home improvement projects. Includes three lessons learned so far.
Resource Worksheet for Scouting Trends and Emerging Technologies
December 19, 2017
The goal of this worksheet, a component of InnoLead’s 2017 research report on scouting trends and emerging tech, is to help you think through some of the key questions, participants, risks, and indicators of success when you are setting up or seeking to improve a scouting operation.
Resource 11 Major Barriers to Innovation, with Proposed Solutions
October 23, 2017
Building a successful and enduring innovation program requires that you identify the barriers that may inhibit progress — ideally, before you smash into them at full speed. Working to predict and mitigate the key barriers can make the business more accepting of new ideas. Below are eleven of the most...
Resource CEOs & Innovation: Four Archetypes
September 6, 2017
From the Fall 2017 issue of InnoLead’s magazine, this one-pager captures the different kinds of CEO personalities when it comes to innovation, including the Visionary, the Cheerleader, and the Advocate.
Resource Idea Evaluation Scorecard
August 23, 2017
This offers a complete system for logging, screening, classifying, and scoring ideas that an innovation group might devote resources to. Developed by Aaron Proietti, former SVP of Innovation at Transamerica, it’s an Excel spreadsheet that can be easily adapted for your own use.
Resource Anthem: Flavors of Innovation
August 21, 2017
Two slides lay out a great way to think about various initiatives, or “flavors of innovation,” that a company might pursue, from a cultural initiative to a workshop series to a venture fund to a spin-out company.