Downloadable Document Library

Here you’ll find actual documents used by our members — including templates, spreadsheets, powerpoint slides, project documents, and more — from innovation executives at large companies like Coca-Cola, Target, Intel, Disney, Marriott, Nike, Starbucks, Procter & Gamble, and many others. Choose the category "Innovation Leader Resources" to see those created by Innovation Leader, in collaboration with former executives at Pfizer, Transamerica, Keurig Dr Pepper, VMware, BNY Mellon, and other companies.

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3 Slides to Help Ensure Strategic Alignment and Deliver Value

By Innovation Leader

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.

Suggested Metrics for Your Innovation Portfolio

By Target Corp.

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.

Scenario Planning for the Impact of Coronavirus

By Innovation Leader

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.

Culture, Personnel, and Org Structure

Microsoft: DevDiv Culture, Values & Behaviors

By Microsoft

A presentation that reviews the company’s cultural values and behaviors as discovered at a recent “DevDiv” (Developer Division) event.

BAE Systems: Grassroots Innovation and Senior Leadership, Tying it all Together

By BAE Systems

How the aerospace and defense company bridges the gap between what senior leadership wants and how the company executes grassroots innovation.

American Family Insurance: Innovation Org Design

By American Family Insurance

A flow-chart of the insurance company’s innovation organization.

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Events, Contests, and Competitions

Caliber Public Safety: Hackathon Flyer

By Caliber Public Safety

Hackathon overview, definition, and agenda, from a technology solutions company.

Boeing: Innovation Day Pitch Deck

By Boeing

A slide deck template for participants in Boeing’s Innovation Day competition.

Harris Computer: The Innovator’s Voice

By Harris Computer

A guide to Harris Computer's “Innovator’s Voice Competition,” which enables individuals and teams to spend some of their time innovating and creating new, novel products and services for customers. Harris develops mission critical software applications for the public sector, healthcare, utilities and private sector verticals.

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Frameworks & Models

Dunkin’ Brands: What Happens in an Internet Minute?

By Dunkin' Brands

Why do you need to move fast? This graphic lays out all of the things that happen on the Internet every minute, from Amazon sales to Netflix movies viewed.

LogMeIn: The Innovation Journey

By LogMeIn

Explores how the collaboration software companies thinks about horizons; lean startup; training; and scaling projects that work.

Technology Trends Radar

By Anonymous

Submitted anonymously in 2018, this slide looks at technology trends that apply to a company’s core business — or could be relevant to adjacent or white space projects. Includes blockchain, quantum computing, AI, and drones as examples.

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Innovation Leader Resources

3 Slides to Help Ensure Strategic Alignment and Deliver Value

By Innovation Leader

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.

Scenario Planning for the Impact of Coronavirus

By Innovation Leader

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.

Three Approaches to Innovation Metrics in 2020

What metrics matter most right now? On a recent videoconference, Innovation Leader members shared a few…

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Job Descriptions

Citigroup: Startup Coach Job Description

By Citigroup

Job description for a Singapore-based position at Citi Ventures — a D10X Startup Coach and Entrepreneur-in-Residence who will play “a critical role in the D10X program by helping the D10X startup teams keep their ‘eye on the prize’, providing an outside-in perspective, staying true to the D10X process and generally ...

Disney: Director of Technologies, Innovation Enablement

By Disney

Job description for a role at Disney that will “be responsible for establishing this new function through the development of strategies for the Emerging Technologies portfolio, and facilitating the delivery of innovative projects from ideation through implementation.”

ECMC Group: Director of Innovation Job Description

By ECMC

A short description outlining the responsibilities of the director of innovation at ECMC Group, one of 35 Federal Family Education Loan Program Guarantors.

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Labs & Centers

Gensler: Everything You’d Ever Want (or Never Want) in an Innovation Hub

By Gensler

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. Innovation Leader and Gensler, the design and architecture firm, teamed up to create an illustrated guide to innovation hubs — the good and the bad.

BNY Mellon: Global Innovation Centers Overview

By BNY Mellon

Short overview of BNY Mellon’s network of innovation centers, their approach, and focus.

Bayer: Life Science iHub Overview

By Bayer

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.

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Metrics & Scorecards

Suggested Metrics for Your Innovation Portfolio

By Target Corp.

Intel: Corporate Innovation Program Metrics

By Intel

A succinct one-page guide to creating metrics for various aspects of a corporate innovation program, from process to people to customer development to decision-making.

CSAA Insurance: Measuring Insight & Innovation

By CSAA Insurance Group

How the California-based insurer CSAA measures its innovation efforts, including a scorecard, key drivers, and a maturity model.

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Processes & Methodologies

Capital Group: Applying Design Thinking Methods

By Capital Group

Details how the investment management firm is applying design thinking.

Google: Innovation Principles

By Google

Created by the Google for Work Innovation Lab, which helps to train Google employees, this 19-slide deck lays out a set of principles that guide innovation at the company, including “be prototype-driven” and ”focus on the user — and all else follows.”

Home Depot: Building the Culture of Design Thinking

By Home Depot

The Design Sprint framework is a problem-solving methodology used to identify, understand, and validate business opportunities. Download this short presentation on Home Depot practices design thinking.

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Strategy Presentations

Medtronic: Meaningful Innovation Brief

By Medtronic

Short overview of how the medical device maker defines “meaningful innovation,” along with some examples of successful projects. Breaks innovation down into “therapy innovation,” “system innovation,” and ”procedural innovation.”

Exelon: Driving a Culture of Innovation

By Exelon

Overview of trends and digital transformation strategy at the $33.5 billion energy company — as well as the challenges of pursuing innovation in the nuclear power industry.

Black & Veatch: Growth Accelerator Overview

By Black & Veatch

Slide deck outlining the growth accelerator at Black & Veatch, a $3.2 billion engineering firm based in Kansas City, Mo. The accelerator “works both outside our core business and with our core businesses. In either case, we seek to discover new opportunities for clients and the global communities in which ...

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