To coincide with the release of our Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018 report, sponsored by KPMG, we brought together 16 innovation professionals to discuss some of the report’s findings. LinkedIn hosted us at the company’s San Francisco campus.
The roundtable opened with a discussion of some of the data highlights from the report — including survey results about common obstacles and enablers, as well as which groups in large companies are involved with actually executing incremental, adjacent, and transformational innovation. Participants also broke up into three smaller groups to discuss skills the workforce of the future will need; the culture clashes that sometimes erupt around innovation and the need for culture change; and business model disruption.
Photos from the event are below; for information about the next roundtables in our Underground series, please see our event calendar.
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- Jodi Olson, VP Innovation at Clif Bar with KPMG’s Annie Armstrong and Brian Miske.
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- James Viola of Johnson and Johnson with Brian Gaab of CSAA Insurance.
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- KPMG Managing Director Annie Armstrong with Robert Gagnon, VP of Strategic Ventures at Ericsson.
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- Cisco Innovation Architect Nirali Shah and Dave Barrowman, Head of Innovation at Skava.
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- Participants peruse the “Benchmarking Innovation Impact 2018” report.
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- KPMG National Managing Partner John Farrell and Paul Campbell of W.L. Gore.
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- From left: Bala Balasubramaniam of LinkedIn’s HR Systems and Innovation team, James Viola of J&J, and Edmund Gee of Fidelity Investmnets.
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- Linka Elkins, Innovation Center Leader at W.L Gore.
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- Navin Kunde of Clorox and Julia Guenster of DB Schenker.
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- Diana Stepner, VP of Innovation Partnerships at Pearson.
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- LinkedIn’s Bala Balasubramaniam.
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- IL Editor Scott Kirsner sorts the Post-it Notes suggesting topics for breakout groups.
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- Laura Kusumoto, Director of Technology Innovation Enablement at Disney.
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- KPMG’s Annie Armstrong recaps one of the breakout group discussions.
