All Innovation Metrics articles
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ArticleWhat I Wish I Knew Before I Joined the Innovation Team
Innovation is about going fast… or so Matt Mueller thought as an innovation novice drafted onto the team at a major food brand. In this piece, Mueller shares the challenges he wished he knew about beforehand.
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Video
Data Insights: Which Emerging Technologies Matter Most to Large Companies?
Which emerging technologies are large companies learning about…investing in… and actually rolling out? This short video serves up three different lists of specific technologies, based on a recent IL survey.
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Video
Data Insights: How Do Corporates Identify ‘Quality’ Startups?
What exactly constitutes a “quality startup,” in the eyes of large corporations looking for partners or investment opportunities in the startup landscape? This short video serves up the answers based on IL data.
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Article
Has Your Organization Racked Up an Innovation Deficit?
Has your organization racked up an innovation deficit over the past year? Check the answers that describe dynamics your organization, and get an instant assessment of where you stand.
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Article
Why Shelf Space is One of the Most Important Metrics at Rust-Oleum
Bedri Erdem, VP of R&D and Corporate Quality at Rust-Oleum, shares insights on why shelf space is such an important metric in his company, why it sometimes causes challenges within the organization, and why it makes a good rule of thumb for killing projects.
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On Demand Webcast
Innovation Emergency Objectives & Key Results
Defining the right innovation objectives and key results (OKRs) and key performance indicators (KPIs) can be the determining factor that helps innovation teams prove value. In this Master Class, Ludwig Melik and Sara Husk of Planbox share their best practices and research-based insights to help teams improve their OKR strategy.
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Video
Data Insights: How Frequently Should You Report Innovation Metrics?
How frequently should you report on metrics? Innovation Leader’s Kaitlin Milliken and Scott Kirsner discuss findings from a recent IL survey.
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Video
Data Insights: The Two Kinds of Innovation Metrics
What’s the difference between activity metrics and impact metrics? And which metric do leaders care about most? Innovation Leader’s Kaitlin Milliken and Scott Kirsner discuss findings from a recent IL survey.
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Article
How Bayer's Open Innovation Chief Overcomes Metric Challenges
Chandra Ramanathan, Global Head of Pharma R&D Open Innovation at Bayer, shares insights on what metrics his team measures, how he overcomes challenges in reporting…
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Article
Explaining the Five Stages of Innovation Maturity
Large organizations often want to know where they stand when it comes to innovation maturity, progress, or sophistication. We divide this journey into five stages, from “ad hoc” to “optimized.” These are our definitions of each stage, along with data about how many organizations fall into each one.
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Article
How This New Innovation Team is Figuring Out Its Metrics
Jodie Brinkerhoff’s innovation team at DFW Airport is relatively new, founded about two years ago. She shares insights on what has been working and what metrics she turns to…
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Article
Inside the Innovation Pipeline at Fortune Brands
Moises Noreña, VP of Innovation at Fortune Brands, shares insights on the metrics that his team uses to gauge innovation. He also discusses overcoming challenges in identifying and reporting the right metrics…
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Podcast
How CSAA’s Chief Innovation Officer Approaches Disruption
How do Chief Innovation Officers build a strategic pipeline of innovation activities? And, what do they do to influence culture? CInOs from CSAA and PA Consulting explain.
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Research Report
Developing Innovation Metrics & Reports That Really Matter
To shed light on how large companies are creating metrics and reporting approaches that work well, we surveyed 196 professionals in large organizations in the first quarter of 2021.
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Article
Assessment: What Stage of Innovation Maturity is Your Organization At?
Welcome to IL’s Innovation Maturity Model assessment. This diagnostic is designed to help innovation, R D, strategy, and new product development leaders understand the strengths and weaknesses of their innovation programs, and provide an instant score. This assessment is designed for current corporate professionals and should only take about ...
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Article
A Model for Measuring Corporate Innovation Programs
There is no silver bullet or a quick solution for measuring the impact of innovation, but this model brings structure to the process of measuring the health of innovation programs and their impact.
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Article
How One Innovation Leader Grew His Team During COVID-19
One innovator from Stanley Black & Decker shares insights on how COVID-19 has impacted his innovation strategy in 2020 and how his team has managed to secure key wins during the pandemic.
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On Demand Webcast
Building a Strategy for the Low Touch Economy
The era after COVID-19 will have an economy shaped by new habits and regulations. Find out how behaviors will shift and what new opportunities are emerging.
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On Demand Webcast
What's BANCA? Fidelity Investments on Their Criteria for Assessing Ideas
Sean Belka discusses how the financial services firm assesses new ideas and scales them when the time is right, along with more best practices for running an innovation lab. Belka is a Managing Director in Fidelity’s Corporate Business Development group.
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On Demand Webcast
Ask Us Anything Webcast, with General Mills & Citi Ventures
Beth Devin of Citi Ventures and Kirsten Aune of General Mills joined us to answer innovation questions submitted by our members.
