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ResourceList of Small Innovation Consulting Firms, Workshop Leaders, and Speakers
Here’s our list of 50+ small innovation consulting practices that do everything from facilitate design sprints to train innovation catalysts to assess innovation maturity. They have experience working at firms like UnitedHealthCare, Nike, the Gap, Starbucks, Pepsico, Lululemon, and Pfizer. And they’re based in the US, Australia, Canada, Germany, and ...
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SAIC: Accelerating ROI by De-Risking Investments
Single PowerPoint slide detailing the technology integrator SAIC’s process for determining whether new ventures deserve additional resources.
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Data on Open Innovation Usage
How often do companies source ideas externally — from customers, entrepreneurs, inventors, and academics? Explore this data visualization to find out.
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Data on Outcomes Senior Leaders Expect from R&D Groups
This data visualization shows the outcomes that senior leaders expect from R&D groups, sortable by industry.
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Data on Organizational Support for R&D and Innovation
This data visualization shows how much support R&D and innovation-oriented groups receive from other parts of the company, and from specific executives.
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Clearly Defining Your Innovation Strategy, Vision, and Mission
This short PowerPoint deck, developed inside a publicly-traded manufacturing company, was created to make sure that everyone is on the same page with the “What, Where, When, Why, How” of innovation. It includes explainer slides with annotations, followed by slides that can be easily adapted for use with your company.
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Idea Canvas for Evaluating and Testing New Ideas
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 retail industry.
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Clorox: How are You Investing in Open Innovation (Includes ‘100 Pennies’ Exercise)
An exercise to do with colleagues: If you were given 100 pennies to invest in different open innovation partners, like small suppliers, universities, startups, etc., where are you investing resources and time today? Where is innovation actually coming from? What should you do differently?
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The Role of Design and UX on an Innovation Team
Five-page PowerPoint document created to help an innovation group define roles related to design, including UX (user experience), and assess the skill sets of individuals.
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Matrix: Should You Watch, or Experiment With, an Emerging Technology
Submitted anonymously in 2021, this slide looks at how one organization thinks about important and not (yet) important emerging technologies. How would you fill out this matrix for your organization today? Does everyone agree?
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Data on How Corporates Interact with Startups, by Experience Level
What resources do other corporates have in place for interacting with the startup ecosystem? What do they find most challenging? Explore the answers in these five data visualizations.
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Survey Data: The Role Design Plays in Large Organizations
PowerPoint deck of charts and qualitative comments from our 2021 survey on the role that design plays in large organizations.
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Data on Tactics That Support a Culture of Innovation, by Industry
What tactics do corporate innovators feel create and support a culture of innovation? We asked that question in a recent survey, and here’s the data, sortable by industry.
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Data on Innovation Obstacles and Enablers, by Industry
What are the blockers that stand in the way of innovation progress — or the things that enable it? Here’s data to answer those two questions…
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Data on Innovation Metrics and Reporting, by Industry
How do you create measurements to gauge innovation progress? Answering that question was a key focus of a 2021 report. This resource presents the data from that report in a series of visualizations that you can sort by industry.
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Overview of the Lean Startup Approach to Innovation
Deck from 2019 providing a thorough overview of the lean startup methodology, along with many helpful templates. Used inside a manufacturing company to help guide the development of mobile apps, as well as hardware, IoT connected products, and research initiatives.
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Video: Hiring Dynamics in 2021
In this IL members’ meeting recorded in January 2021, innovators from across industries shared recent experiences adding to their teams, recruiting executives, and navigating the job market. Our guests included Tuck Rickards of Russell Reynolds Associates, Alex Pavlou of Bamboo Crowd, Maureen Rinkunas of Coplex, Paul Campbell of British ...
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3 Slides to Help Ensure Strategic Alignment and Deliver Value
Short PowerPoint deck collecting graphics related to determining what job the organization expects innovators to do, and how they can get aligned with overarching strategy.
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Suggested Metrics for Your Innovation Portfolio
Created by Ravi Kanniganti of Target Corp. to accompany an article on metrics, this PDF lays out ways to track the health of an innovation portfolio; pilot tests run with startups; intrapreneurial projects; and more.
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Scenario Planning for the Impact of Coronavirus
This PowerPoint deck, created by a former Director of Innovation in the aerospace industry, argues that scenario planning is crucial right now, and presents a simple approach to it.
