All Labs & Centers

Resource Overview of Ford’s FordX Venture Incubator
November 2, 2024
This 15-slide PowerPoint deck offers an overview of the venture incubator's reason for existence; its areas of focus; and some of the projects it worked on during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
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 Gensler: Everything You’d Ever Want (or Never Want) in an Innovation Hub
January 7, 2020
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. InnoLead and Gensler, the design and architecture firm, teamed up...
Resource BNY Mellon: Global Innovation Centers Overview
May 19, 2017
Short overview of BNY Mellon’s network of innovation centers, their approach, and focus.
Resource Bayer: Life Science iHub Overview
April 28, 2017
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.
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 Innovation and Acceleration Lab Objectives
April 5, 2016
A graphical overview of an anonymous company’s innovation lab efforts, including an “Innovation Ambition Matrix” and models of corporate entrepreneurship.
Resource Hearst Health: Innovation Lab Overview
March 2, 2016
Short overview of the innovation lab at Hearst Health, including its mission and some of the methodologies it uses to develop new offerings.
Resource Intel: Open Innovation 2.0
February 10, 2016
Presentation focuses on how Intel Labs is seeking to create technology that is relevant to society by working with four outside constituencies: government, academia, citizens, and other companies. Includes slide on how company works toward making innovation “predictable, probable and profitable,” rather than occasional and project-based.
Resource Manulife/John Hancock: Lab Overview and Hackathon Agenda
September 18, 2015
Overview of the new Lab of Forward Thinking (LOFT) at the insurance firm Manulife/John Hancock, and agenda for the group’s launch event and employee hackathon.
Resource Cambia Health: Overview of Grove Healthcare Innovation Space
March 9, 2015
Two-page overview of the Cambia Grove, a collaborative space that insurer Cambia Health Solutions is opening in Seattle in 2015 with a vision to “catalyze the development of a vibrant local health care innovation cluster.”
Resource Eastern Bank: Overview of Labs Initiative
January 26, 2015
Short presentation from December 2014 about the team behind Eastern Bank’s new Eastern Labs initiative, and what they’re focusing on. Eastern is the oldest and largest mutually-owned bank in the US.
Resource Federal Reserve Bank of Boston: Accelerator Lab
July 28, 2014
Written like a press release, this quick one-pager explains the goals and results of the bank’s second Accelerator Lab, an internal idea challenge.
Resource 7-Eleven: Customer Innovation Labs
July 28, 2014
This 14-page overview describes 7-Eleven’s “pragmatic approach” to creating new revenue-generating partners, channels, and apps. Covers objectives and their business-driven approach.
Resource Hearst Health: Innovation Lab Methodology
July 28, 2014
Nice overview of the innovation methodology in place at the Hearst Health Innovation Lab, with examples of committee reports, challenges, lessons and more. Includes sample pitches. Hearst Health is part of the global media company Hearst.
Resource IBM: Mobile Innovation Lab Process and Approach
July 28, 2014
One-page visual representation of IBM’s Mobile Innovation Lab, with a focus on the processes of Discover, Select, Plan and Build.