All Processes & Methodologies

Article The Death of the Design Process (and the Rise of the Infinity Loop)
March 24, 2026 | By Todd Reily
The design process as we knew it is most certainly dead, writes Todd Reily in his latest piece for InnoLead. What's replacing it?
Article Stop Explaining — and Start Building More Prototypes
March 17, 2026 | By Todd Reily
Because the cost of "making it real" has dropped to near zero, you can stop prototyping just the "best" idea, writes Todd Reily. Instead, you can prototype a whole portfolio of potential solutions.
Article Why Your Team Picks ‘Compromise’ Ideas (and How to Fix It)
March 2, 2026 | By Todd Reily
Todd Reily explains why awarding badges to ideas can work better than dot voting.
Article AI Gives You B- Ideas. Here’s the Way to Earn an A.
February 16, 2026 | By Todd Reily
"Good enough" ideas are a death sentence, writes Todd Reily. So how do you get truly great ideas? Not by brainstorming...
Article The Bobblehead Effect: How the Illusion of Agreement Can Kill Innovation
February 9, 2026 | By Todd Reily
We've all been in that meeting: The strategy is presented. The team leader looks around the room and asks if everyone is on board. And then it happens... The Bobblehead Effect. Todd Reily explains how to avoid it.
Article If You Want to Build the Future, Stop Solving Today’s Problems
February 2, 2026 | By Todd Reily
The first part of a six-part series on how the innovation process is evolving in the age of AI, by former Bose director of visioneering Todd Reilly.
Resource Digital Transformation in Large Multinationals
December 2, 2025
PowerPoint presentation delivered in 2022 by Alexandru Darie, a veteran of Schneider Electric, Signify, Sensata, and Phillips Lighting. Provides insights and best practices for digital transformation; lean startup; discovery-based planning; agile; and scrum teams.
Resource Open Innovation at NASA
October 1, 2025
Includes great content on making the case for open innovation; dealing with intellectual property concerns; and examples of challenges NASA has conducted and solutions/technologies it has found.
Resource PepsiCo Labs Approach to Pilots
July 29, 2025
2025 PDF on the PepsiCo Labs model for delivering End-to-End Program Pilots.
Resource IBM’s Enterprise Design Thinking “Field Guide”
July 29, 2025
Enterprise Design Thinking is IBM's approach to applying design thinking at the speed and scale the modern enterprise demands. It’s a framework for teaming and action. It helps teams not only form intent, but deliver outcomes.
Resource CarMax: Inside a Massive Digital Transformation
January 23, 2025
This 33-slide PPT and related video tackle the question of innovating over the long-term, with lots of concrete examples, and references to the approaches of Thomas Edison, Clayton Christensen, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, among others.
Resource Bayer: Innovation for the Long-Term Slide Deck and Video
January 23, 2025
This 33-slide PPT and related video tackle the question of innovating over the long-term, with lots of concrete examples, and references to the approaches of Thomas Edison, Clayton Christensen, and Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, among others.
Resource Innovation Stage Gate Playbook and Workshop Deck
January 23, 2025
Developed for use at a high-profile media company, this 29-page PDF playbook is "a reference to guide you through a repeatable end to end innovation approach."
Resource Corporate Innovation: 14 Essential Concepts Defined
January 10, 2025 | By Scott Kirsner
This deck, assembled by InnoLead, highlights the 14 most essential concepts in corporate innovation to help organizations foster creativity, agility, and leadership. We define each concept, provide a visual or framework that helps make it concrete, and recommend books, articles, or online resources to learn more.
Resource Orbit Generative AI Tools
March 25, 2024
Orbit is a platform being developed by the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship to support new venture development, and they're interested in giving early access to corporate leaders from the InnoLead community, to test it out and provide feedback.
Research Report Getting More from Corporate-University Partnerships
November 13, 2023
In today’s fast-paced world, the synergy between universities and corporations can play a powerful role in driving meaningful technological and business advancements. Universities can bring new ideas and approaches to the practical problems of industry, and industry can provide faculty and students with learning opportunities they simply can’t get in...
Thought Leadership Develop Better Products Through Reducing Uncertainty
November 2, 2023 | By Kathy Morrisey and Mary Drotar, Strategy 2 Market
Exploratory PD is an adaptable product development process that adjusts to internal and external factors and individual product nuances. Here's an introduction...
Research Report Smarter Scouting: Best Practices
September 25, 2023
How are large companies doing the work of scouting in 2023? What's their advice about getting the right resources — and building the right relationships so you can take advantage of what you find? This new InnoLead research inititiave provides input from your peers on those questions.
Research Report Building a Productive Innovation Portfolio
July 10, 2023
As part of our most recent research, we fielded questions about innovation processes, methodologies, tools, and metrics. Here is a sneak peek of the results...
Resource Idea Canvas for Evaluating and Testing New Ideas
January 20, 2022
Adapted from the Business Model Canvas to better fit the needs of the corporate world, this Idea Canvas allows you to follow a high-level scientific process when evaluating ideas and then use the criteria from the Idea Canvas when testing or validating that idea. Developed by a Senior Director working in the...