Pointers brings together useful, practical advice from InnoLead’s Strategic Partners. Explore recent themed article collections, or download complete PDF editions dating back to 2016.
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Six themed collections of ideas and advice from innovation experts.
Ten concise perspectives on the priorities that matter most—from realizing business value with AI to building innovation engines, venture building, modern R&D, and smarter investment decisions.
Ten candid lessons innovation advisors usually learn quietly: confronting stalled programs, zombie projects, portfolio strategy, stakeholder opinions, and the less glamorous realities of innovation.
A field guide to the ways innovation efforts break down—and practical advice for overcoming resistance, stopping zombie projects, building resilient teams, and avoiding common program pitfalls.
Seven perspectives on integrating AI into corporate innovation, from upskilling and experimentation to automation, new business paradigms, and the changing role of the innovator.
A forward-looking collection on priorities for 2024, including generative AI, organizational creativity, innovation teams, crowdsourcing, metrics, and moving beyond past assumptions.
Direct advice for CEOs on creating the conditions for innovation—from trust and digital vision to decision-making, leadership involvement, and organizational transformation.
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Strategies for delivering value, solving customer problems, and keeping innovation moving during reorganizations, uncertainty, and market turbulence.
A practical collection of numbered lists covering university collaboration, healthy innovation pipelines, technology projects, and other ways to move faster and deliver more impact.
Advice for winning support from the C-suite to the front lines, strengthening innovation culture, and involving the right people across the organization.
How to assess innovation projects, involve the right stakeholders, and balance Horizon 1, 2, and 3 work in a healthier portfolio.
Expert guidance on accelerating innovation progress while avoiding the hidden obstacles that can stall both new and established teams.
A hands-on set of spreadsheets, worksheets, articles, and other tools for assessing and improving an innovation program.
Guidance for expanding a program that is already underway: culture, tools, long-term systems, and the next stage of organizational maturity.
Practical advice for leaders building a new innovation capability, lab, or team inside an established organization.
How to recruit, develop, motivate, and reward the people needed to create a durable culture of innovation.
Ways to identify and support champions who can spread innovation practices and momentum across the organization.
Approaches to metrics, outcomes, and communicating the progress and value of corporate innovation programs.
Ideas for changing culture through lean innovation, open innovation, better ideation, and a wider network of participants.
Advice on hypothesis-led innovation, idea challenges, disruptive products, acquisitions, and defining new leadership roles.
Lessons on design thinking, augmented reality, innovation metrics, startup collaboration, and organic growth.
Early Pointers advice on zombie projects, physical-digital experiences, strategic alignment, high-performance teams, and crowdsourced innovation.
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